Ten new species, including nine animals and one plant, have been listed as "staring extinction in the face," according to the UK-based international conservation group. Leptodactylus fallax ...

Our planet now faces a global extinction crisis never witnessed by humankind. Scientists predict that more than 1 million species are on track for extinction in the coming decades. But there’s still ...

Get Instant Summarized Text (Gist) A significant portion of freshwater species, including fish, insects, and crustaceans, are at high risk of extinction due to pollution, dams, and farming ...

Nearly a quarter of the world's freshwater species are at risk of extinction, according to new research. A detailed extinction assessment of more than 23,000 species of freshwater fauna by the ...

The first comprehensive assessment of the risk of extinction of freshwater species, now published in the journal Nature, is set to change this. The scientists involved in the new study used the ...

Nearly a quarter of animals living in rivers, lakes, and other freshwater habitats face extinction, according to a new study published Wednesday in Nature. Researchers found that 24 percent of ...

Land conversion is contributing to what scientists call Earth’s sixth mass extinction. Now, new maps link the conversion of landscapes to the risk of extinction for species; they also help ...

WASHINGTON (AP) — Nearly a quarter of animals living in rivers, lakes and other freshwater sources are threatened with extinction, according to new research published Wednesday. “Huge rivers ...

finding 24% of them at a high risk of extinction. "Prevalent threats include pollution, dams and water extraction, agriculture and invasive species, with overharvesting also driving extinctions ...

Almost a quarter of main freshwater animal species including fish, shrimps and crabs are threatened with extinction, worldwide research involving more than a thousand experts has found.

The IUCN Red List is the gold standard in terms of telling us which species are at greatest risk of extinction, which is why BirdLife contributes to the IUCN Red List as the global Red List Authority ...

Previous studies have posited that the mass extinction that wiped the dinosaurs off the face of the Earth was caused by the release of large volumes of sulfur from rocks within the Chicxulub ...