Here is an inconvenient truth: our forebears used the unrestrained free market to effect a staggering destruction of continental wildlife, an unforgivable crime against evolution in America. They ...

Discover the thick billed parrot, North America’s endangered parrot, with its striking colors and dwindling wild population.

At a time when it has become difficult to find many areas of agreement in Washington, the outdoors have proven to be a real uniting force. The two of us were proud to help lead the bipartisan effort ...

Academy Scientists Matt Tursi (left), Danny Morrill (center), and Colin Rohrback (right) conduct an electrofishing survey in a headwater stream of the Delaware River. (David Keller) Piping plover.

On October 3-4, a High Level International Conference on Illegal Wildlife Trade in the Americas will take place in Lima, Peru. This is the first-ever such conference organized exclusively around ...

The United States faces an ongoing biodiversity crisis, worsened by climate change and the destruction of habitat. Twenty-three species of native plants and animals in the United States were declared ...

This story was originally published by High Country New s. Nine years ago, Glenn Olson joined a panel whose members, in ordinary circumstances, would rarely appear in the same room together — let ...

Neither a national park nor a national forest, a national wildlife refuge is kind of like the red-headed stepchild of national wildlife designations. The parks get all the glory, but photographer, ...

After attracting more than 36 million viewers, NBC has officially renewed The Americas. Tom Hanks is returning for Season 2.