President Obama's designation of Northeast Canyons and Seamounts National Monument in the Atlantic Ocean had little or no impact on commercial fisheries, according to an examination of catches before, during, and after establishment of the monument.

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.