In a cluttered back office at the National Butterfly Center, Marianna Trevino Wright has a lot on her mind. The mood is of a place that’s being hurriedly evacuated, with flyers and postcards strewn on ...

MISSION, Texas (KXAN) — The National Butterfly Center in Mission, Texas in the Rio Grande Valley has a renewed sense of determination for preventing the construction of the border wall. This comes ...

UAB’s campus is home to world-class scholars, award-winning authors, game-changing researchers — even a dragon. Next fall, a new species will flutter in: monarch butterflies, drawn to a new habitat on ...

Butterflies are one of nature’s most beautiful creations, but the picturesque insects are facing threats that are decimating their numbers. The journal Science recently published a report that found ...

In an inspiring story of nature's resilience, a butterfly species once thought extinct is making a triumphant return to the skies of Kent, England. This heartwarming comeback story is a welcome ...

As of 2018, the butterfly’s population had quadrupled, and the U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service has proposed downlisting the species from endangered to threatened. If this status change is finalized, as ...

The flapping wings of millions of monarch butterflies at the Monarch Butterfly Biosphere Reserve in Michoacán, Mexico, create a fluttering sound that Alfonso Alonso describes as “magical.” The ...

SAN FRANCISCO (KGO) -- The spring weather is giving wildlife experts a chance to help restore a colorful part of the Bay Area's ecosystem. And if you take a stroll in the right area you may just see ...

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This article was originally published in High Country News. From the top of Pigeon Butte in western Oregon’s William L. Finley National Wildlife Refuge, the full width of the Willamette Valley fits ...