The authors found that b etween 500,000 and 1 million plant and animals species face extinction, many within decades. The report reiterates that there's just one factor to blame for this troubling ...

Animals are disappearing at hundreds of times the normal rate, primarily because of shrinking habitats. Their biggest threat: humans. No trace of the wild South China tiger, Panthera tigris ...

There’s no way to sugarcoat it: Animal and plant life is declining across the globe at rates never seen before in human history. And alongside this decline, extinction rates are speeding up — as many ...

Roughly 66 million years ago, an asteroid or comet struck the planet and wiped out three-quarters of every animal and plant species alive. Known as the Cretaceous–Paleogene extinction event (K ...

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 ...

The background level of extinction known from the fossil record is about one species per million species per year, or between 10 and 100 species per year (counting all organisms such as insects ...

One-third of all animal and plant species on the planet could face extinction by 2070 due to climate change, ... Bumblebees are disappearing at rates 'consistent with mass extinction' ...

Nature is in crisis, and it's only getting worse. As species vanish at a rate not seen in 10 million years, more than 1 million species are currently on the brink.

Harvard biologist E. O. Wilson estimated that 30,000 species per year (or three species per hour) are being driven to extinction. Compare this to the natural background rate of one extinction per ...

It could be, he says, that island species with a slower metabolism are actually at a lower risk of extinction than the authors found—or at an even higher one. Rights & Permissions Rachel Nuwer ...