The monarch butterfly is a beautiful and colorful creature, but it takes a while to reach that part of its adult life. Understanding a few facts about the process lets you observe it in nature with ...

The monarch butterfly migration is one of the great wonders of the natural world. Every year, millions of them travel immense distances along predetermined monarch butterfly migration routes to escape ...

The monarch butterfly is most renowned for its yearly odyssey. Some will travel up to 3,000 miles during their two-way winter journey.

Habitat loss, climate change and the use of pesticides are to blame for the population decline of monarchs, says Karen ...

The iconic monarch butterfly has been declining for decades, and now the federal government is stepping in to stem the tide.

The question this Earth Day is not whether we can save the monarch butterfly − we can − but whether we will.

The International Union for Conservation of Nature placed the monarch butterfly on its Red List of Threatened Species as endangered in July, but despite decades of declining numbers, the delicate ...

Monarch butterfly super generation live up to 9 times longer than most monarchs, migrates thousands of miles By Anderson Cooper ...

U.S. officials decided to extend protections to monarch butterflies after warnings from environmentalists that populations are shrinking and the beloved pollinator may not survive climate change.

In light of habitat loss and population decline, the U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service may give monarch butterflies a slot under the Endangered Species Act by December. The species, which was once ...

The official state butterfly since 2000, monarch butterflies are facing a major ecological threat, according to experts. Local, Western populations of monarchs have declined by around 30% compared to ...

A threatened listing allows for exceptions to those protections. In the monarch’s case, the proposed listing would generally prohibit anyone from killing or transporting the butterfly.