Armed with a yellow and a black crayon, a 9-year-old conservationist recently helped persuade an Alabama university to rethink building a sprawling sports facility on a critical spotted salamander ...

Spotted salamanders have long fallen victim to unbridled residential and commercial development that has threatened or destroyed their habitats. (Lee Hedgepeth/Inside Climate News) This article ...

HOMEWOOD, Ala.—Nine-year-old Ruby Banta thought it was a pretty simple choice, even for adults. “This was the salamander’s habitat first,” she said after an afternoon soccer game. “It’s not a college ...

Environmentalists and federal wildlife regulators have settled a federal lawsuit on tiger salamander habitat, agreeing to roll back the clock to 2005 and return to the days when all 74,000 acres of ...

NASHVILLE, Tenn. (WKRN) — The explosive growth in Middle Tennessee has driven up demand not only for residential development but also commercial development. While big companies like Amazon and Oracle ...

Quick Take Blue-spotted salamanders in Ontario can actively move on ice at freezing temperatures. Of 21 salamanders ...

COLLINS, N.Y. — Sometimes the smallest of habitats can support an abundance of thriving life. Vernal pools are a spring phenomenon essential to many species, including salamanders. The pools are ...

Sonoma County officials say the 74,000-acre expanse of the Santa Rosa Plain is far too large - perhaps four times too big - an area to receive federal protection as critical habitat for the endangered ...

Federal Information & News Dispatch, Inc.    SUPPLEMENTARY INFORMATION: Why we need to publish a rule. Under the Endangered Species Act (Act), any species that is determined to be an ...

The population of California tiger salamanders that live in the Stanford hills will have new breeding ponds ready by the winter rains. The university's hope is to have fewer of the small amphibians ...

PANAMA CITY, Fla.— Following a lawsuit by the Center for Biological Diversity and Healthy Gulf, the U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service today published draft recovery plans for the critically endangered ...