At its August 12-13, 2026 meeting, the California Fish and Game Commission (Commission) unanimously found that a petition to list the western spadefoot toad (Spea hammondii) as threatened throughout ...

The FAA’s proposed rule would let the agency bypass requirements under 13 federal environmental laws — including the ESA, NEPA, and the National Historic Preservation Act — for every commercial rocket ...

Considering that the effects of the Trump administration's changes to the Endangered Species Act remain to be seen at the time of this writing, we leave this claim unrated. In July 2026, a claim ...

Benjamin holds a Master's degree in anthropology from University College London and has previously worked in the fields of psychedelic neuroscience and mental health. Benjamin holds a Master's degree ...

A linguistic “golden age” flourished between 1,000 to 3,000 years ago when tens of thousands of languages were spoken throughout the world, according to a new study coauthored by Yale linguist Claire ...

Every two weeks, a language dies. Not metaphorically — a living, breathing system of human thought, story, and identity vanishes forever, taking with it an irreplaceable lens through which people ...

The Trump administration on Friday rolled back protections for at-risk animal and plant species under the Endangered Species Act. Under prior regulations, species that were considered “threatened” — ...

A student researcher works in the BYU MATRIX Lab on the Pathsay project. The project partners with BYU-Pathway Worldwide students to collect speech and text data for low-resource languages, helping ...

PHOENIX — The Trump administration finalized a rule Friday that changes how agencies enforce the Endangered Species Act and eliminates a key protection for imperiled wildlife against logging, oil ...

The Trump administration reversed decades of longstanding environmental law protecting endangered species on Friday, opening up sensitive habitats of those protected species to drilling, mining, ...

The Trump administration Friday finalized a repeal of decades-old regulation that said habitat destruction was a form of harm to endangered species. Overturning that interpretation of one of the ...