The agency now has 12 months to decide whether to protect the salamander, which only lives in an Appalachian rock outcrops targeted by coal mining. “This decision is an important first step for these ...

earning it the title of “salamander capital of the world.” The Appalachian Mountains have had a complex and tumultuous history. A disregard for the value of ecosystems and the communities they ...

Fewer than 400 yellow-spotted woodland salamanders remain and they only live in Appalachian rock outcrops targeted by coal mining. The Center petitioned to list the yellow-spotted woodland salamander ...

Explore the challenges facing the southern Appalachian salamander due to climate change and habitat loss. Venezuela Opposition Says Leader Detained After Vote Protest How Colman Domingo Won the ...

Tropical Storm Helene devastated healthy populations of the eastern hellbender salamander. Because of this they may receive ...

His photography of the natural world has appeared in Orion, Nature Conservancy Magazine, Ranger Rick, Virginia Wildlife, National Science Teachers Association Press books and numerous conservation ...

Brian Gratwicke, along with other collaborators. He studies the skin defense in Appalachian salamanders against the chytrid pathogens Batrachochytrium dendrobatidis and B. salamandrivorans.

The giant salamander species in Appalachia was already in trouble when Hurricane Helene devastated swaths of its habitat in ...

Another study examined the mucosal defenses of Appalachian salamanders against chytrid pathogens, specifically Batrachochytrium dendrobatidis (Bd) and B. salamandrivorans (Bsal). The research ...

Researchers are getting their feet wet at Franciscan University after receiving a grant from the Foundation for Appalachian Ohio and the Muskingum Watershed ...

A giant salamander called the "hellbender" is on its way to becoming an endangered species. It needs very clean water to survive and that's getting harder to find.