Packed snugly in a nest of grass to keep it moist, the newt looked unhappy. "Its eye is kind of bulging," said the woman who rescued it from the tarmac, Annabelle Travis of El Sobrante. "I think we ...

Sally Gale is a rancher in rural west Marin County, California. In addition to raising beef cattle, she leads a specialized brigade — one that’s helped save thousands of amphibians. The amphibians are ...

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

WASHINGTON— In a legal victory for the Center for Biological Diversity, the U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service today agreed to consider granting Endangered Species Act protections to the striped newt, ...

GEORGIA — The Center of Biological Diversity (CBD) announced it has told the U.S. government it would sue in a bid to protect a species of newt living in Georgia and parts of Florida. According to CBD ...

WASHINGTON— The Center for Biological Diversity today notified the U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service that it intends to sue the agency for denying Endangered Species Act protections to the striped newt.

Kuala Lumpur, Malaysia, 3rd June 2016—A new study has uncovered a large trade in Southeast Asia’s little-known newts, taken from the wild for the international pet trade. The researchers found over ...

PORTLAND, Ore. (CN) — Environmentalists petitioned the U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service on Thursday to conserve a dwindling subspecies of newt in Oregon’s Crater Lake through the Endangered Species Act.

Crater Lake's famously pure water and a newt that calls the lake home are under threat from the explosion of an invasive crayfish, leading to potential action under the Endangered Species Act, the U.S ...