Scientists study decline in turtle nests
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Scientists are trying to figure out why the number of loggerhead sea turtle nests has declined significantly over the past seven years.
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Worldwide efforts to protect endangered waterbirds are falling short as industrial and urban development eat away at their habitats, and hunting and pollution take their toll, according to a book released Monday.
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By The Lexington Herald-Leader, Ky.  Dec. 9--More than a million tiny blue birds once sang and nested in the tops of Appalachian forests. Now there may be only 500,000 cerulean warblers left.
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A report released recently by the National Audubon Society indicates a number of bird species are decreasing in number all over the country.
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A new federal study has found that more threatened loggerhead sea turtles are injured or killed by the mid-Atlantic scallop fishery than earlier estimates indicated.
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Research shows piranhas are much less aggressive than previously thought, scientists in the UK announce.
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Amphibians such as leopard frogs and salamanders are threatened with extinction as their homes dry up and a new disease spreads, possibly as a result of global warming, according to a new study in Science magazine.
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Global biodiversity is shrinking at an unprecedented rate and the prognosis given by one of the world&#39;s leading conservation bodies, at the opening of a major environment conference here, is alarming.
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Six species of reef-building coral could vanish from the Caribbean due to rising temperatures and toxic runoff from islands' development, according to a study released Thursday
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More than 30% of North America's bird populations are in "significant decline" according to conservationists.
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Several common species of North American birds have suffered drastic population declines since the arrival of the West Nile virus eight years ago, leaving rural and suburban areas quieter than they used to be and imposing ecological stresses on a variety of other animals and plants, a new study has...
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By David Fleshler, South Florida Sun-Sentinel  Feb. 17--After being sharply criticized for allowing developers to bury gopher tortoises alive, the state wildlife commission on Friday released a plan intended to virtually eliminate the practice and halt the species' decline.
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By AJ HOSTETLER  About 220 million years ago, two reptiles gliding among the trees were apparently blown off course, falling and drowning in a nearby lake that is now the site of a quarry in southern Virginia.
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By David Fleshler, South Florida Sun-Sentinel  Jun. 14--MELBOURNE -- The state wildlife commission voted Wednesday to stop issuing permits to developers to bury gopher tortoises alive, ending a 16-year policy that had been criticized as both cruel and a cause of the species' decline.
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KUALA LUMPUR, Malaysia - Several species of sea turtles in Malaysia could vanish in a few years, largely due to illegal poaching of the creatures and their eggs, scientists warned on Wednesday.
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Washington - About one third of amphibians are under threat of extinction, according to researchers who carried out a global census.
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The marbled murrelet, a threatened sea bird whose rare trait of nesting in old-growth forests made it a factor in logging battles in the U.S. Northwest, is also declining dramatically in Alaska and Canada, where most of the birds live, according to a U.S. government review.