The struggling population of Mazama newts are finding a new home at the High Desert Museum in Bend and the Oregon Zoo in Portland due to their own climate becoming increasingly challenging. The newts, ...

PORTLAND, Ore. — The Mazama newt used to be head honcho at Crater Lake. Found only in the lake's cold waters, this brightly-colored semiaquatic species used to be one of the top predators in its ...

This is one of the most spectacular gems of the Cascades — an extraordinary blue mountain lake at an altitude of 6,000 feet that is also the deepest lake in North America. Many natural wonders are the ...

Crater Lake National Park is celebrating its 120th birthday on Sunday. Formed by the volcanic eruption of Mount Mazama nearly 7,700 years ago, Crater Lake is the deepest lake in the United States and ...

The Oregon Zoo, in partnership with the National Park Service and the High Desert Museum, has rescued 19 Mazama newts from Crater Lake National Park in an attempt to save the species from extinction.

CRATER LAKE, Ore. — Mark Buktenica, who’s worked as Crater Lake National Park’s aquatic biologist for 30 years, remembers times not so long ago when Mazama Newts, a species found only at Crater Lake, ...

For years, the Mazama newt lived peacefully and without predators at Crater Lake in southern Oregon. Many newts, particularly rough-skinned ones, have poisonous skin as a form of protection, but these ...

Cooler temperatures and recent snow and rain have slowed fire activity on the Spruce Lake and Blanket Creek fires in Crater Lake National Park. As a result, the park lifted the Level 1 evacuation ...

On Thursday, the environmental nonprofit Center for Biological Diversity submitted a legal petition for protection of the Crater Lake newt under the Endangered Species Act to the U.S. Fish and ...

PORTLAND, Ore.— The Center for Biological Diversity notified the Trump administration today that it intends to sue over the U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service’s failure to protect the critically imperiled ...

At Crater Lake National Park in Oregon, the site of the deepest lake in the country, the surface water temperature has been heating in recent years, attracting an invasive species of crayfish that is ...