Infographic summarising the key traits and factors identified by the study that determine species risk to climate change-related extinction. Credit: Miranta Kouvari (Science Graphic Design).

A quarter of the world’s freshwater animals are threatened with extinction, new research shows New research shows about a quarter of animals living in rivers, lakes and other freshwater sources ...

While we can’t say exactly how many animal species have gone extinct in the past 125 years, it’s estimated that between 200 and 500 species have faced extinction in the past century. In the ...

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 ...

Let's start with the confirmed extinctions. A total of 777 animals have gone extinct since the beginning of the modern era in 1500, according to the International Union for Conservation of Nature ...

The animals found across the globe included such species as reptiles, fish and mammals. In October, an extinct colony of little penguins was reestablished after 30 years when a chick hatched for ...

A startling 24% of freshwater animals were at risk of extinction due to compounding threats from pollution, dams, water extraction, agriculture, invasive species, climate change and other disruptions.

Protecting animals against environmental changes, ... Red List of Threatened Species is the world’s most comprehensive list on the global extinction risk of animal, fungus, ...

The threat of extinction is getting worse for migratory animals. ... It lists 399 additional species that “are threatened or near threatened with extinction” but still aren’t on the CMS list ...

Animals are disappearing too fast for researchers to record all of the extinctions we've caused. When you purchase through links on our site, we may earn an affiliate commission. Here’s how it ...

The IUCN has assessed the extinction risk of only about 5% of the world's known species, so there must be many more extinctions that have not been recorded. A 2022 study published in the journal ...