The Latest Breaking News from Extinction

Deadly virus takes hold after failed eradication bid.

The 42 known species of the parasitic plant Rafflesia, known as the corpse flower, are endangered due to destruction of forest habitats

Eco activists scaled Labour’s London headquarters on Monday and doused its front steps in black paint.

Humans evolved from physics to chemistry to biology, leading to Homo genus 2.5 million years ago. Homo sapiens wiped out many species, including some of their own, and now live in the Anthropocene age. Cockroaches, mice, and lizards are some of the few creatures that have survived and still scare…

Six Extinction Rebellion protesters arrested after blockading the West 30th St heliport

Only three planetary boundaries are within a safe operating space — and even they are under extreme pressure

If you looked up 66 million years ago you might have seen, for a split second, a bright light as a mountain-sized asteroid burned through the atmosphere and smashed into Earth. It was springtime and the literal end of an era, the Mesozoic.

Black American women navigate the decades in a powerful family saga; a palaeontologist explores Earth’s mass extinctions; and a behavioural scientist explains the gendering of emotion

It is time to evolve ideas to arrest the decline of languages and the world must at least try to find ways and means to preserve some of its endangered languages