The functionally extinct delta smelt entered national politics in 2009, when Sean Hannity made it a symbol of ...

More than 750 tidewater gobies were rescued from a Malibu lagoon scorched by the Palisades fire. Seared watersheds can take ...

An 'Endangered' Fish That Delayed a Dam's Construction for 6 Years Was Never Actually in Danger, Find Scientists The river ...

A Trump executive order directs agencies to 'to route more water' across the state. But some say there's a lot more at stake.

An executive order signed by President Donald Trump orders federal agencies to find a way to "route more water" from ...

17 to rescue fish threatened by the Palisades fire, including Alyssa Morgan, right, conservation biologist and project manager with the Resource Conservation District of the Santa Monica Mountains.

What does a 3-inch-long, nearly extinct fish native to California’s Sacramento-San Joaquin River Delta have to do with fighting California wildfires? Nothing, apart from a need for water.

Trump said that protections for a tiny endangered fish species called the delta smelt are impeding firefighters' abilities to battle the blaze because of water diversion, but that claim is false.

A 12-year campaign to gain federal protection for an imperiled and culturally significant fish found only in Clear Lake has ...

President Donald Trump has explicitly targeted the Endangered Species Act as an obstacle to his energy policies and appears ...