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If there are few speakers left of a language, how does a community revive it? In our current era, 3,000 languages are at risk of extinction due to the pressures of colonization, globalization, forced cultural assimilation, environmental devastation and other factors.

Human emissions of greenhouse gases have caused rapid global warming. This has made high-impact, heat extreme events around the globe more and more intense over the past 70 years. Heat extremes, such as heatwaves, can cause severe damage to infrastructure by damaging bridges and railways. They also harm ecosystems, and…

Research found chimpanzees drum with non-random rhythms that suggest building blocks of music may predate humans by millions of years

Vultures are key to wildlife ecosystems because of the clean-up work they do, feeding on the carcasses of dead animals.

Ultra-conservative campaigners fly in for ‘family values’ conferences to share tactics with African allies who oppose abortion and LGBTQ+ rights

Cities and their residents can protest overtourism, but wildlife cannot – but there are ways we can help, says Eloise Barker

This incident represents one of the worst mass vulture poisonings in the park's history

The heroism of soldiers from India, Africa and the Caribbean is too often airbrushed, as is the struggle of those who resisted colonial powers, says writer and sociology professor Gary Younge

A far-left South African politician renowned for his anti-West rhetoric has accused U.K. authorities of denying him a visa to speak at an event at Cambridge University for political reasons