The three high-school birders, dubbed The Pete Dunnelins, have one day to count as many bird species across the state of New Jersey as physically possible. Here's what it takes.

Georgia College & State University students are studying a species the Department of Natural Resources has listed as a “greatest conservation need,” as part of a state-funded effort to understand its decline.

According to a new study, the Joro spiders you see around your neighborhood every year might be under a lot of stress.

Two men are paddling the entire length of the Chattahoochee River to raise money and awareness for a river advocacy group. Jarod Horne and Stephen Burden began their 500-mile journey on March 1 in the north Georgia mountain town of Helen.

The national seashore was established in 1972. Visitor access and other issues have been hot topics for island managers and advocates ever since.

Two public meetings about the Glynn County lighting ordinance pitted residents’ safety concerns against advocates who seek more protections for nesting sea turtles on the area’s barrier islands.

In ways scientists don't yet understand, turkey hens can shift to rearing more females when hunting pressure on top males becomes too much, according to a new study. 

North Atlantic right whales have been detected throughout the East Coast, including near Savannah, Ga., and the first mother/calf pair was spotted over the past weekend.

India's olive ridley turtle numbers appear to have rebounded after years of patchwork efforts to stem their decline. Can it last?

The Georgia Board of Natural Resources has rejected a petition aimed at protecting diamondback terrapins from crab nets, but state wildlife experts will perform a statewide terrapin survey and study methods for protecting the unique turtle.

In Mexico, September means chiles en nogada season. But one key ingredient, a candied barrel cactus called biznaga, is now illegal because it's vanishing in the wild.

One dredge spoil island in Brunswick Harbor now hosts about 8,000 nesting pairs of seabirds, but lacks the legal protections afforded by the original rule.

The Georgia Department of Natural Resources has revised its State Wildlife Action Plan, and it’s now in use as it awaits a required review from the U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service.

A conservation group says it will pay $60 million to buy land outside the Okefenokee Swamp from a mining company that spent years battling environmentalists over its plans to extract minerals there.

Oyster shells are sourced from Atlanta restaurants, among other partners, and require a monthslong curing period in the sun to eliminate bacteria.