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Judge mulls halt of 'unlawful, inhumane' brumby culling

The NSW government has argued that a bid by bush users to halt aerial culling of brumbies in the Snowy Mountains would harm species on the verge of extinction.

AAP

‘Human extinction’: OpenAI workers raise alarm about the risks of artificial intelligence

AI experts argued developers in field need strong worker protections to be able to warn public about nature of new technologies

The Independent UK

On Australia’s climate and extinction crises, the major parties both have questions to answer

The Coalition has no climate policy. But Labor’s positions are undermined by its confused stance on gas and the delay of new environmental laws

The Guardian - AU

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Supermarkets defend salmon supplies with skate on skids

With extinction a real possibility for an ancient Tasmanian species, supermarkets are defending the credentials of the farmed salmon it accepts from the state.

AAP

UK review of protest tactics expected to stop short of banning groups

Palestine Action, Just Stop Oil and Extinction Rebellion to be highlighted in report by John Woodcock for ‘dangerous’ tactics

The Guardian - UK

Threatened species have declined 2% a year since 2000. Nature positive? Far from it.

Our government has great aspirations. It has committed to end extinctions and expand our protected areas to cover 30% of every Australian ecosystem by 2030. This is part of its Nature Positive Plan, aligned with the 2022 Kunming-Montreal global biodiversity pact. The goal is not just to conserve nature but…

The Conversation

‘Only hope we’ve got’: the audacious plan to genetically engineer Australia’s endangered northern quoll

In a revolutionary approach, scientists are hoping that modifying the marsupial’s genes to resist cane toads’ toxin will save it from extinction

The Guardian - AU

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This conservator of agricultural diversity has saved many rice varieties from the brink of extinction

A childhood passion for heritage conservation and an unfulfilled desire of chalking out a career as a museologist culminated in this farmer conceiving his own museum -- of rice varieties -- which is one of its kind in Karnataka.

The Hindu

Ex-City Hall Tories say 'negative campaign' was partly to blame for Sadiq Khan's victory

One former Tory assembly member said the party could face “a nationwide extinction level event” if it does not learn lessons from the mayoral race

Evening Standard

Tories have always had a fear of political extinction. After the next election, they could be right

Even grandees are bracing for the worst. But such apocalyptic language around the party is nothing new, says author Samuel Earle

The Guardian - UK

Teaming up to save threatened squirrel gliders from local extinction

19 males and 18 females were found across two reserves.

Newcastle Herald

Britain’s natural landscape is in ruins – thanks to the Tories. Here’s how Labour will restore it

Sewage pollutes our waterways, species face extinction. We must act fast to halt the decline – and we will, writes the shadow environment secretary, Steve Reed

The Guardian - UK

Tiny freshwater Snowy Mountains fish faces extinction, environmentalists say

The Yalmy galaxias is ‘on the verge of disappearing for ever’ and Labor on the brink of failing to meet its zero extinctions target

The Guardian - AU

In Amazon rainforest, Peru's ancient shihuahuaco trees are under threat

The shihuahuaco tree is one of the giants of the Amazon rainforest, reaching heights of up to 60 metres. But it is coveted for its hardwood, one of the most precious and sought-after types of wood in the world. Peru exports it to China, but also to Europe and in…

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Protesters Arrested At Massachusetts Airport For Climate Activism

Protesters arrested at Hanscom Field Airport for opposing private jet hangar expansion by Extinction Rebellion. Environmental concerns raised amid record-b...

Evening Standard

The US scientists bringing back the Woolly Mammoth - Tech & Science Daily podcast

Colossal Biosciences explain the complex science behind ‘de-extinction’ and reveal their target date for the first woolly mammoth calf.

The Guardian - UK

‘These birds are telling us something serious is happening’: the songbirds disappearing from Britain’s woods

The dramatic decline of marsh tits in an ancient Cambridgeshire woodland is a story repeated across the UK as human activity drives species towards extinction

Salon

Rare white rhino saved from extinction

New research from the San Diego Zoo using just 12 frozen cells suggests we can protect the northern white rhino

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Labor accused of broken promise after delaying laws to address Australia’s extinction crisis

Tanya Plibersek says two new agencies will be established but a commitment to rewrite national environment laws has been pushed back

LiveScience

Are we in a 6th mass extinction?

If we continue on our current trajectory, the sixth mass extinction is inevitable and the times we're living through now will be part of that geological period.

The Guardian - AU

Top environmental groups say some of Labor’s new laws could take conservation backwards

Alliance says there’s not enough ambition in proposed laws to prevent extinctions, as promised by the environment minister

LiveScience

Mass die-off half a billion years ago caused by shifting tectonic plates, ancient rocks reveal

A large extinction in the midst of the expansion of life during the Cambrian period was caused by the tectonics of a supercontinent, new research argues.

The Guardian - UK

Dinosaur data: can the bones of the deep past help predict extinctions of the future?

Millions of years ago, animals adapted to become warm-blooded amid huge climactic changes. Now scientists hope these clues from the past could help us understand what lies ahead

The Guardian - UK

The shrill carder: once-common bumblebee heading for extinction

Bombus sylvarum is now found in only a few pockets as intensive farming destroys UK wildflower habitats

The Guardian - UK

The French aristocrat who understood evolution 100 years before Darwin – and even worried about climate change

Georges-Louis Leclerc proposed species change and extinction back in the 1740s, a new book reveals

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