In the race to save birdlife around the world, time is running out—and doing everything right still won’t be enough. Despite global conservation goals and urgent policies aimed at protecting nature, ...

Of those, 700 are threatened with extinction. Jane Smart, head of IUCN’s Centre for Science and Data, said it will take political will to save the jeopardized species, and the gravity of the new ...

Extinction isn't a relic of humanity's more barbaric past. It's happening now. In 2023, U.S. scientists declared 21 species officially extinct. Included on the shameful list are birds, mussels ...

Global population trends among 71,000 animal species show nearly half are "sliding toward extinction," some of them at alarming rates, a new study warns. Researchers found 48% of the species in ...

But though microbes are ubiquitous, some communities of microbes could be at risk of extinction. ... or reshuffle which types are common and which types are rare.

A detailed extinction assessment of more than 23,000 species of freshwater fauna by the International Union for Conservation of Nature identified major threats from pollution, dams, agriculture ...

The globe has already warmed by about 1.3 degrees Celsius from the preindustrial average, which would tip about 1.6% of species towards extinction by 2100, Urban found.

The highest portion of threatened trees is found on islands like Fiji, Cuba and Madagascar. In South America, which is home to the Amazon Rainforest, 3,356 out of the 13,668 assessed tree species ...

How the process of de-extinction will be used to restore this fabled species. Sightings of the iconic species have been sparse since the early 20th century. By Julia Jacobo. October 1, 2024, 8:42 AM.

In South America, where there are more tree species than anywhere else in the world, more than 3,000 of 13,668 tree species are at risk of extinction because of crop farming and livestock ranching.