While many animals are increasingly at risk of disappearing forever, the updated list shows how species can come back from ...

More than a quarter of all animals, plants and fungi assessed are at risk of extinction, according to the latest IUCN Red List of Threatened Species.

Three species of Arctic seal have moved closer to extinction, according to the latest update of the IUCN Red List of Threatened Species™. Today’s update also reveals that more than half of bird ...

The IUCN report also indicated that overall 61% of bird species have declining populations — an estimate that has increased ...

Arctic seals and many birds are in danger as ice melts and forests disappear. Green sea turtles show recovery.

Sea turtles are making a surprising comeback, according to the International Union for Conservation of Nature. The news was ...

Environmentalists say the Ninth Circuit should have jurisdiction over a dispute over 160 million acres of protected seal ...

HONOLULU (AP) – The Hawaiian monk seal, the most endangered marine mammal in the United States, has a long list of threats _ fishing nets, sharks and, particularly, humans. But for one group of seals, ...

PORTLAND, Maine — Avian influenza is killing tens of thousands of seals and sea lions in different corners of the world, disrupting ecosystems and flummoxing scientists who don’t see a clear way to ...

Seals have a reputation for being the laid-back loungers of the animal kingdom, but there’s a lot more going on beneath that sleek surface. Seals, with dive times that rival submarines and milk fat ...

The rookery is closed from Dec. 1 to May 31 for pupping season, but committee members say this is insufficient. The local adult seal population has dropped by more than half over nearly two decades, ...

Sales of the Real Seal toys support research to help save the endangered Hawaiian monk seal population. For that special Christmas gift, how about saving an endangered species? That’s the goal of the ...