David M. Morens, a top NIH official, told Covid scientists to use his personal Gmail account “because my NIH email is FOIA’d constantly.”

Virologists close to the NIH initially believed the Covid virus could be genetically engineered. Unredacted emails show how their thinking evolved.

Internal Meta emails say pressure from Washington was behind a decision to take down posts attributing the pandemic to a man-made virus.

The Trump administration is greenlighting drilling and logging at Bears Ears and Grand Staircase-Escalante.

Sir Patrick Vallance among scientists behind paper that stifled debate into the origins of the virus

If the government is already struggling to protect iconic creatures like wolves from extinction in the wild, how will it handle the daunting future?

Exclusive: extractive industry companies who met with Kathleen Benedetto later saw direct benefits from administration decisions

A federal judge has ruled that the Trump administration’s leading steward of public lands has been serving unlawfully and blocked him from continuing in the position

The Biden administration formally halted the Wuhan Institute of Virology’s access to US funding, citing unanswered safety and security questions for the facility at the center of the Covid lab leak...

The litter was born amid a contentious plan to reintroduce the species to the state.

After a top aide to Anthony Fauci was grilled by Congress, questions emerge as to whether others may have sought to avoid transparency around the Covid epidemic.

Powerful gun lobby group has used connections in Trump administration to influence decisions, messages show

Douglas Domenech's communications with his former employer, the Koch-backed Texas Public Policy Foundation, are more extensive than previously known.

Peter Daszak is a high-profile virologist with close ties to the Wuhan Institute of Virology. That relationship landed him in front of Congress this week.

The state doesn't have the resources or track record to assume a major program from the federal government, environmentalists say.

Oregon has banned Wildlife Services' use of cyanide bombs, and some California counties have severed their contracts with the agency.

Given the ongoing uncertainty over the origins of the pandemic, little was expected from Tuesday's hearing. But thanks to a new release of public records, we now know more about what the scientists...

Revealed: emails show Trump and appointees tried to craft a narrative that forest protection efforts are responsible for wildfires

Bees, butterflies, and other insects are under attack by the very plants they feed on as U.S. agriculture continues to use chemicals known to kill.

Martha Williams has been nominated to lead the Fish and Wildlife Service. But can she protect America's endangered species?

Skeptics have maintained that there were scant grounds for the assertion that raccoon dogs were the pandemic’s intermediate species, if the only evidence for that claim was the presence of viral and...

Five Native American tribes will work with the Bureau of Land Management to plan and conserve Bears Ears National Monument in Utah, officials said.

The documents, released to The Nation, formed the basis of a memo made public before the subcommittee’s first hearing on the origin of Covid-19.

By Jon Cohen Just because information is difficult to obtain, it doesn’t mean that the obtained information is particularly meaningful—or accurate. I plan to discuss…

Wildlife Services kills thousands of animals at ranchers and farmers’ behest. But it operates with little oversight – and critics describe it as out of control

The San Francisco Bay’s rich ecosystem is collapsing—and the region’s liberal leaders bear part of the blame.

In early 2020, top scientists told Anthony Fauci they were concerned that SARS-CoV-2 appeared potentially "engineered." Here’s a look at what happened next.

Wildlife Services kills thousands of animals at ranchers and farmers’ behest. But it operates with little oversight – and critics describe it as out of control