Spotted salamanders have long fallen victim to unbridled residential and commercial development that has threatened or destroyed their habitats. (Lee Hedgepeth/Inside Climate News) This article ...

Armed with a yellow and a black crayon, a 9-year-old conservationist recently helped persuade an Alabama university to rethink building a sprawling sports facility on a critical spotted salamander ...

HOMEWOOD, Ala.—Nine-year-old Ruby Banta thought it was a pretty simple choice, even for adults. “This was the salamander’s habitat first,” she said after an afternoon soccer game. “It’s not a college ...

HOMEWOOD, Ala.—Ellen McLaughlin said she wasn’t speaking for herself. “I speak for the salamanders,” she told those gathered at a community meeting in late March. McLaughlin, a retired Samford ...

Samford University’s planned 27-acre Creekside development adjacent to Homewood High School has raised concerns in Homewood about the impact of a 10-story hotel and shopping center development ...

A rare lungless creature — speckled with yellow spots — breathes through its skin and lives in ancient rock faces of Appalachia in the southeastern U.S. It’s a “mascot of the mountains” and at risk of ...

A class of Great Mills High School students are planning to build a fence to save salamanders.Earlier this year, ATVs destroyed egg sacs that salamanders laid at the Elms Environmental Center in ...

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