A chilling new assessment suggests our planet is hurtling towards an unprecedented loss of life, with human activity squarely ...

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

Protecting animal species from exploitation and extinction requires accurate information about the animals and how humans are ...

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 ...

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 ...

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

Projects, by both Colossal and other groups, are underway around the world to help endangered species develop disease resistance or evolve to tolerate a warmer world. Other projects use gene editing ...

Scientists know climate change will cause extinctions, but just how many ... A new study out today tries to estimate how much of Earth's biodiversity is threatened under different climate futures ...

"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 ...

Due to their size and abundance, these creatures shaped the ecosystems in which they lived – but today all are nearly gone ...

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 ...