Humans are causing enormous damage to the Earth, and about 1 million plant and animal species are now at risk of extinction.

The Australian megafauna dominated their ecosystems—and then were gone in an extinction spasm that swept away nearly every animal that weighed a hundred pounds or more. What, exactly ...

A new study has estimated it would cost $15.6 billion per year for 30 years to prevent extinction for 99 of Australia's ...

It is the first time Australia has changed the status of an animal from "extinct in the wild" to "endangered". When recorded population levels of the bandicoots plunged in Australia's Victoria ...

One of the world’s rarest marsupials is facing extinction in Australia, according to a new ... programs like that one to secure these animals’ long-term survival.’ The New South Wales ...

A fluffy native mouse is among the Australian animals added to the international red list of threatened species, with conservationists warning of an escalating global extinction crisis.

Peta Bulling says Australia is undergoing an extinction crisis, with more than 2,000 plants, animals and ecosystems on the national threatened species list. She says as long as climate change and ...