Around 66 million years ago, a six-mile-wide asteroid hit Earth, triggering the extinction of three-quarters of all living ...

"The more those animal populations are pushed toward extinction, the more the people involved will suffer." Authorities ...

Surprising new fossil evidence undermines the idea that there was ever a mass extinction on land – and may force us to ...

Man has killed off much of the Earth’s existing wildlife, and some scientists argue that human activity has set off the world’s sixth mass extinction event. New research now shows global ...

More than 163,000 species have been assessed, and 45,300 (28%) are considered to be threatened with extinction. The UN's biodiversity body - known as IPBES - estimates that at least one million ...

Check out all the Center’s current online action alerts to tackle the extinction crisis from every angle. After you take action, share your favorite alerts (or the whole page) to help spread the word ...

Study by UChicago, Smithsonian, UK Natural History Museum challenges assumptions about survival after global catastrophe ...

"From a social science perspective, it has been useful to communicate the concept of the world we're in, in terms of climate change, biodiversity loss, and mass extinctions, and to generate the ...

Produced by ElevenLabs and News Over Audio (Noa) using AI narration. Listen to more stories on the Noa app. Last year, hiking in Morocco’s eastern Atlas Mountains, I found an ammonite, a fossil ...

Buransh, state flower of Himachal Pradesh, as well as popular condiments like “tejpatta” can disappear if efforts are not ...

This unprecedented influence raises the question: are we inadvertently triggering a mass extinction? Biodiversity refers to the variety of life on Earth, including all species of plants ...