Invasive species cost the North American economy $26 billion a year. By outcompeting local plants or animals, invaders reduce ...

Decades of efforts to eradicate invasive smallmouth bass from a midsized Adirondack lake have led to a surprising result: The ...

In the 1940s and 50s, cowboys carried a stick to treat cattle infested with screwworms. The stick was used to scrape the ...

Learn how a proposed change to the Endangered Species Act could weaken protections for endangered animals by redefining the ...

Piping plovers are also probably the best known of the federally endangered or threatened animal and plant species in Connecticut. There are others.

The amazing rainfall we have received in the last few weeks has really increased the population of the mosquitoes. It is hard to work outside or sit on the porch, ...

A small team of biologists at Stanford University has found evidence that approximately one-third of all vertebrate ...