Photographer and National Geographic Explorer Rena Effendi learned that a little-known species was named after her late ...

Scientists calculated just how much U.S. butterfly populations have declined in the past 20 years. The results brought some scientists to tears, and have them warning about dire implications for other ...

Butterflies are rapidly fluttering out of existence from coast to coast, according to a new assessment published Thursday, at a rate that scientists worry could upend ecosystems and undercut ...

On Monday, the U.S. Secretary of the Interior officially renamed the Anahuac National Wildlife Refuge after Jocelyn Nungaray, a 12-year-old Houston girl who was murdered last year.

Plus: President Trump's sweeping freeze on federal funding has been hit with another legal blow. | A deadline looms to avoid ...

The number of monarch butterflies wintering in the mountains west of Mexico City rebounded this year, doubling the area they ...

Disinformation is another butterfly effect multiplier ... creating feedback loops that escalate crises beyond national borders. Environmental factors are an increasingly critical part of ...

The annual butterfly count doesn’t calculate the individual ... Butterflies have not been faring well north of the border. The Xerces Society for Invertebrate Conservation has been counting ...