Scientists assessing efforts to eradicate invasive ants on the Channel Islands off the California coast have enlisted a four-legged worker to sniff out the aggressive insects and make sure the invasiv...

Biologists say that for the first time in about 150 years, landlocked Atlantic salmon are once again swimming up some Lake Champlain tributaries in Vermont and New York to spawn in gravel banks....

New York wildlife managers have proposed a ban on deer urine used by hunters to lure their quarry...

Wildlife advocates and a Montana Indian tribe are asking a U.S. court to restore protections for grizzly bears in and around Yellowstone National Park so that trophy hunting of the fearsome animals wo...

Opening a new era in cancer care, the Food and Drug Administration has approved the first treatment that genetically engineers patients' own blood cells into an army of assassins to seek and destroy c...

Federal officials plan to provide more details on their investigation into the recent deaths of several endangered North Atlantic right whales...

The Oakland Athletics and San Francisco Giants are experimenting with unconventional measures to keep away large flocks of gulls that fly in from the coastline and circle their San Francisco Bay Area ...

Researchers head to Arctic to study wind effects on marine life...

The Gulf of Maine is the latest global hotspot to lose kelp forests, which are critical to the fishing industry...

A former Northwestern University professor and an Oxford University employee accused of killing a man as part of what prosecutors called a sexual fantasy will have their next court date on Sept. 8 in ...