NORTH CAROLINA — Two species of birds native to North Carolina were declared extinct by the U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service in late September. The largest announcement of extinction in U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service history, the fate of the ivory-billed woodpecker and the Bachman’s warbler tell a larger story about the risks birds are facing in the High Country.
A new study using a NASA satellite instrument orbiting Earth has found that small, environmental changes in polar food webs significantly influence the boom-and-bust cycles of phytoplankton. These findings will supply important data for ecosystem management, commercial fisheries and our understanding of the interactions between Earth’s climate and key ocean ecosystems, NASA said.
SAN FRANCISCO -- Unprecedented warming air temperature in 2016 over the Arctic contributed to a record-breaking delay in the fall sea ice freeze-up, leading to extensive melting of Greenland ice sheet and land-based snow cover, says a NOAA-sponsored report released Tuesday.
The U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service today announced $900,000 in grants under the Wolf Livestock Demonstration Project Grant Program. Grants will be distributed to the states of Arizona, California, Idaho, Montana, New Mexico, Oregon, Washington and Wisconsin.
Scientists at NOAA say the arrival of La Niña’s has caused global temperatures to cool from the record warm conditions experienced earlier in the year.
La Nina has arrived and is favored to stick around through winter, scientists at NOAA say. Forecasters say the climate phenomena likely will contribute to drier and warmer weather in the southern U.S. and wetter, cooler conditions in the Pacific Northwest, and across to the northern tier of the nation this winter.
WASHINGTON -- In the final weeks of the Obama administration, the U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service is finalizing rules that would further restrict the management of non-federal oil and gas development on lands of the National Wildlife Refuge System. The Obama Administration has said protecting and expanding refuges is part of the president's environmental legacy.
October is typically a month for crisp weather and fall jackets, but for many across the U.S., it felt more like bathing suit season, NOAA scientists say.
Thanks to a La Nina influence, the southern United States will have a drier and warmer winter, while the northern U.S. should face a wetter, cooler winter, forecasters from NOAA’s Climate Prediction Center said Thursday.
HARKERS ISLAND, N.C. – Cape Lookout National Seashore re-opened most of its facilities Tuesday after conducting assessments of park resources and facilities following Hurricane Matthew. High surf limited officials from inspecting all parts of the park.
While hunting is a sport often associated with men, Marna Evans and Mary Gates, prove women enjoy the activity, too.
HONOLULU, Hawaii -- Scientists working in the Hawaiian Archipelago are calling some of the deep coral reefs found in the region’s so-called oceanic “twilight zone” the most extensive on record, with several large areas of 100 percent coral cover.
JOHANNESBURG, South Africa – Elephants, rhinos and lions will headline next week's meeting in South Africa to fight trafficking of endangered species.
BILLINGS, Mont. -- ExxonMobil Pipeline Co. has agreed to pay $12 million in damages to resolve claims stemming from the July 2011 oil spill into the Yellowstone River, according to a consent decree filed in federal court Wednesday.
WASHINGTON – Twenty states will receive federal grants totaling $44.8 million to help protect threatened and endangered species, the U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service announced Friday.
LA JOLLA, Calif. -- How do you find whales that dive so deep and spend so little time at the surface that some species have never been observed alive? Sometimes you just have to listen closely.
WASHINGTON -- President Obama on Thursday designated the first marine national monument in the Atlantic Ocean, protecting fragile deep-sea ecosystems off the coast of New England as the Northeast Canyons and Seamounts Marine National Monument.
PHILADELPHIA – For the fifth time, James Hautman of Chaska, Minn has won the Federal Duck Stamp Art Contest. He made it a family affair.
SAN DIEGO -- In a ceremony that signaled to the world the United States is committed to ending the scourge of wildlife trafficking, confiscated rhino horn items with an estimated black market value of $1 million -- including whole horns, ornate objects and items falsely marketed as medicinals -- were reduced to ashes.
Visitation numbers for August decreased slightly in Yellowstone National Park. The overall decrease for August 2016 totaled 1.5 percent below August 2015. However, the first seven months of 2016 are up 4.3 percent compared to the previous year.
Endangered humpback whales in nine of 14 newly identified distinct population segments have recovered enough that they don’t warrant listing under the Endangered Species Act, NOAA Fisheries said Tuesday.
Scientists from the Bishop Museum and NOAA have published a description of a new species of butterflyfish from deep reefs of the Papahānaumokuākea Marine National Monument in the remote Northwestern Hawaiian Islands. The study was published Tueday in the scientific journal ZooKeys.
Applications will be accepted starting Thursday, September 1, for those interested in obtaining a permit for a non-commercially guided snowmobile trip into Yellowstone National Park during the 2016-2017 winter season.
WASHINGTON -- President Obama issued an executive order last week to expand the Papahānaumokuākea Marine National Monument off the coast of Hawaii, creating the world’s largest marine protected area. The expanded boundaries cover more area than all U.S. national parks combined. The area is bigger than Texas.
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