Forty-six percent of tree species in Mesoamerica are threatened with extinction. Researchers hope a new regional study will ...

About a fifth of reptile species - from the Galapagos tortoises to the Komodo dragon of the Indonesian islands, from West Africa's rhinoceros viper to India's gharial - are threatened with ...

The IUCN’s Red List of Threatened Species includes 138,374 species, of which 38,543 are threatened with extinction. Climate change currently impacts 10.2 percent of threatened chondrichthyes ...

A rare Panamanian tree frog, a rodent from Madagascar and two lizards found only in the Philippines are among over 17,000 species threatened with extinction, a leading environmental group said ...

Rainy, damp weather along the eastern United States in summer 2025 has one upside: Fireflies love it.

The new report updates the “Red List of Threatened Species,” identifying 30,178 species as threatened with extinction out of 112,432 assessed (27%). The list is a limited sampling of species on the ...

Of these, over 46,300 species are threatened with extinction. Each species also has a category from the IUCN related to their estimated population that ranges from least concern to extinct.

Using novel machine-learning techniques, researchers found that of the 1,889 species of palms with enough data to investigate, more than half (56%) may be threatened with extinction.

Finding a species to be threatened with extinction means it has been evaluated as "critically endangered," "endangered" or "vulnerable" on the International Union for Conservation of Nature (IUCN ...

A total of 11% to 16% of native tree species were determined to be threatened with extinction, most often due to pests and diseases. One of the most dramatic findings was that 17 of the threatened ...

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 ...

The IUCN's Red List of Threatened Species recognizes that "more than 46,300 species are threatened with extinction. That is still 28% of all assessed species." ...