Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. I have studied pikas, small cousins of rabbits, for over 50 years and never tire of watching them. These tailless, egg-shaped ...

Chris Ray, a pika researcher, is scheduled to talk about her work Friday and then orient volunteers who want to monitor habitat of pikas, a relative of the rabbit, that is being displaced from its ...

The whereabouts of the pint-sized pika, a mammalian indicator species that is losing its alpine habitat to climate change, have been mapped for the first time in Wyoming’s reaches of the Rocky ...

With high metabolic rates and thick fur, pikas are well adapted to the cold temperatures at high elevations, but these same adaptations make them vulnerable to global warming. (Photo by Joseph Stewart ...

BOISE, Idaho (AP) — Researcher Erik Beever has watched the effects of climate change play out in front of his eyes. Holiday sour note: Kennedy Center jazz performance canceled due to Trump renaming ...

The American pika is a charismatic, diminutive relative of rabbits that some researchers say is at high risk of extinction due to climate change. Pikas typically live in cool habitats, often in ...

Climate change is harming many special places and iconic species around our planet, from Glacier National Park’s disappearing glaciers to California redwoods scorched by wildfires. But for the animal ...

BOISE, Idaho — Researcher Erik Beever has watched the effects of climate change play out in front of his eyes. The U.S. Geological Survey research biologist from Bozeman, Mont., studies American pikas ...

The American pika is a squeaky little animal that lives at high elevations in mountains in the West. It could one day have a huge influence on America’s battles over climate change. And a new program ...