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The Striped Newt, an amphibian native to Florida and Georgia, was denied endangered species protection in 2018 by the Trump administration. The U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service is now considering ...

On Thursday, the environmental nonprofit Center for Biological Diversity submitted a legal petition for protection of the Crater Lake newt under the Endangered Species Act to the U.S. Fish and ...

PORTLAND, Ore. (KATU) — The U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service might be facing a new lawsuit over newts in Crater Lake. The Center for Biological Diversity says Fish and Wildlife failed to protect newts ...

can’t tell you where I interviewed Max Lambert, but I can tell you what we saw. It wasn’t pretty. Lambert is a research scientist with the Washington Department of Fish and Wildlife. He has been ...

PORTLAND, Ore.— In response to a legal petition from the Center for Biological Diversity, the U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service announced this week that the Crater Lake newt (also known as the Mazama ...

WASHINGTON, USA — Washington Department of Fish and Wildlife (WDFW) researchers are studying what could be causing a large number of rough-skinned newts to die at an alpine lake in the southern ...

PORTLAND, Ore.— The Center for Biological Diversity filed a legal petition today with the U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service to protect the Crater Lake newt (also known as the Mazama newt) under the ...

The Center for Biological Diversity (“CBD”) transmitted a 60-day Notice of Intent To Sue (“NOI”) the U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service (“Service”) for alleged violations of the Endangered Species Act ...

(CN) — The Center for Biological Diversity sued the Trump administration on Thursday for slow-walking Endangered Species Act protections for the Crater Lake newt. Living only in Oregon’s Crater Lake, ...

"It's one of those things where all newts are salamanders, but all salamanders aren't newts," Nick Burgmeier, a research ...