A federal judge on Thursday restored Endangered Species Act protections for the gray wolf across much of the country, ruling that the U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service in 2020 removed the protections based on two core populations of the canid, not on the species' status in a significant portion of its historic range and did not consider whether that range was needed to achieve full recovery.

Nearly 200 countries have developed various forms of biodiversity strategies, but the United States is not one of them, according to a coalition of conservation groups that want the Biden administration to create a national biodiversity strategy in a bid to slow the sixth mass extinction.

A small slice of the past that tells part of the story of the Muscogee Nation has more than doubled in size with the addition of more than 900 acres of Ocmulgee National Park and Preserve in Georgia.

A study in Nature warns that National Park System units in the Northeast face greater risk from the combination of potent hurricanes, storm surge, sea-level rise, and flooding than those in other parts of the country.