Algae grown under Mars-like conditions could make bioplastic building materials for structures to harbor life in space.

A lab experiment that simulated Mars conditions showed that green algae can grow in plastic containers made from the same ...

If humans are ever going to live beyond Earth, they'll need to construct habitats. But transporting enough industrial material to create livable spaces would be incredibly challenging and expensive.

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

Climate change jeopardizes endangered species’ habitats. Potentially jeopardizing them further is a federal proposal around ...

The dam would have flooded 88,000 acres of forest and streams, including habitat for the lousewort and other species had it been built, but support from Maine’s congressional delegation waned ...

Note: Alaska, Hawaii not to scale. [Map: U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service] The Trump administration is seeking to change that definition of “harm” in a way that leaves out habitat modification.

Since 1975, regulations have defined "harm " to include habitat destruction that kills or injures wildlife. Developers and logging interests challenged that definition in 1995 in a Supreme Court ...

Note: Alaska is not to scale. U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service The Trump administration is seeking to change that definition of “harm” in a way that leaves out habitat modification.

The proposed change would eliminate the regulatory definition of “harm” altogether and rely instead on the statutory definition of “take” in section 3 (19) of the ESA, 16 U.S.C. § 1532 (19).

WASHINGTON -- The Trump administration aims to remove degradation of habitat from its definition of "harm" to endangered species, proposing Wednesday a rule change that would open ...

A proposed rule from the U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service would change the definition of “harm” to an endangered species, effectively allowing such activities as logging and oil drilling to be ...