World Frog Day 2026 highlights how frogs support ecosystems and why their decline signals environmental problems.

Endangered frogs snatched as tadpoles from fire-ravaged mountains above Los Angeles in 2020 were returned home last year in a moment of hope and excitement. But the California amphibians are once ...

Road salt can often wash into nearby wetlands and ponds and hurt freshwater wildlife, but some animals appear to be adapting. By Ethan Freedman Published Apr 2, 2024 9:00 AM EDT Get the Popular ...

Quick Take Wood frogs may travel up to a half mile to the vernal pool they were born in before participating in the spring chorus. The Sackett v. EPA ruling stripped vital protections, leaving vernal ...

Frogs have been on the decline in the Chicago area. The health of the frog population tells us a lot about the health of our environment. Laura Cripe grew up hiking in LaBagh Woods on Chicago’s North ...

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Every other Friday, the Outside/In team here at NHPR answers listener questions about the natural world. Today's question comes from Andy, calling from Dover, New Hampshire. Alejandro Vélez: That is a ...

For the fourth time, hundreds of endangered frogs were released into the Columbia National Wildlife Refuge with the intent to revitalize their population. The roughly 500 northern leopard frogs were ...

It had been five years since the first of the frog eggs had been moved, carefully plucked from Mexico's Baja Peninsula and transported by cooler to Southern California. Anny Peralta-Garcia was getting ...

The Phoenix Zoo recently released 1,000 tadpoles into the Tonto National Forest, part of a program to save the threatened Chiricahua leopard frog. The zoo collects eggs every year, and those eggs ...

Animals drinking water is a common phenomenon, and most of them do so by using their mouth. However, when we talk about frogs ...

A rare frog that is California’s state amphibian and likely the species featured in a famous Mark Twain short story is thriving in its new Napa County home. The Land Trust of Napa County’s Wragg Ridge ...