On a shrub-covered dune in San Francisco’s Presidio, biologist Durrell Kapan and a group of volunteers huddle around a tiny plastic condiment container placed delicately amid a cluster of ...

that found around 1 million of Earth’s 8 million species are at risk of extinction due to human activity. Since the 1970s, global biodiversity, the variation of life on Earth, has declined by a ...

That was about 1,000 years before their extinction in other parts of North ... study that argues that wildfires due to increased human activity were likely to blame. Edward Davis is the director ...

Anthropogenic extinction, which is driven by human activities, poses a severe threat to biodiversity worldwide. Professor Bridget B. Baker of the University of Florida's Wildlife Ecology and ...

A rare trout species native to Colorado is making a comeback with a surprising strategy called "Trojan trout."  What's ...

Fresh research has revealed that marine animals are facing an unprecedented risk of extinction because of ... and ecosystems are impacted by human activities and climate change, the more ...

There are very few, if any, extinctions that we know about in the last 100 years that would have taken place without human activity. I have never heard anyone argue, “oh extinction rates ...

The ramifications of human activity on the island of Madagascar ... and several other species are threatened with extinction due to human influences such as deforestation, hunting and climate ...

Extinction simply cannot be the way our story ... since all these dangers were the direct result of human activities. The threat environment was quickly becoming a dense obstacle course of human ...

Humans are driving this extinction crisis through activities ... have gone extinct naturally or due to causes unrelated to human activity. In a healthy environment, as species die off naturally ...

The current extinction crisis is entirely of our own making. More than a century of habitat destruction, pollution, the spread of invasive species, overharvest from the wild, climate change, ...

and other human activities, a landmark United Nations report warns. Thanks to human pressures, one million species may be pushed to extinction in the next few years, with serious consequences for ...