From the Associated Press ANCHORAGE, Alaska – A federal court judge is giving the Interior Department until Dec. 23 to explain why polar bears are listed as a "threatened" species instead of the more-protective...

From the Associated Press CHARLESTON, W.Va. – Environmental groups are suing the federal government to return a type of flying squirrel to the endangered species list. The small nocturnal squirrel...

From the Associated Press HONOLULU – Environmental activists are petitioning the federal government to put 83 coral species on the endangered species list. They say global warming and ocean acidification...

From the Associated Press BILLINGS, Mont. – The U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service is proposing federal protection for the shovelnose sturgeon to help protect the endangered pallid sturgeon. The agency...

From the Associated Press- By AUDREY McAVOY HONOLULU – The federal government is considering taking the humpback whale off the endangered species list in response to data showing the population of...

From the Associated Press BILLINGS, Mont. – Hunters can keep stalking gray wolves for now in the Northern Rockies, but the killing may be short-lived after a federal judge found problems with the...