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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.— 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 ...

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.— 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 struggling population of Mazama newts are finding a new home at the High Desert Museum in Bend and the Oregon Zoo in Portland due to their own climate becoming increasingly challenging. The newts, ...

(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, ...

The red-spotted newts are on the move at the Flight 93 National Memorial in Shanksville. The National Park Service shared photos of the bright orange creatures crawling around the memorial, telling ...