The Latest Breaking News from Extinction

The protest group Extinction Rebellion (XR) has released a statement with the clickbait headline “We Quit”. Dashing the hopes of climate denialists everywhere, the group is not shutting up shop (yet), it is merely changing tactics. XR is keeping its options open, saying there is “a controversial resolution to temporarily…

They’ve been pushed to the brink of extinction by dams, drought, extreme heat and even the flare of wildfires, but now California’s endangered winter-run Chinook salmon appear to be facing an entirely new threat — their own ravenous hunger for anchovies.

The group says it is its 'new year's resolution'

The Population Bomber has never been right, but is never in doubt that the world is coming to its end.

You might think you have the measure of the rodent family. Perhaps just the word “rodent” conjures images of invasive rats, those urban denizens accused of spreading pathogens and parasites, chewing through wires and spoiling food.

The idea that nature — forests , rivers, mountains — could have rights, in the same way that human rights, or corporate rights exist has been building momentum.

Australian branches of the climate change protest group Extinction Rebellion could shift tactics in light of an announcement from UK division that it will temporarily stop engaging in acts of civil disobedience.

The U.K. division of climate change protest group Extinction Rebellion says its activists will temporarily stop blocking busy roads, gluing themselves to buildings and engaging in other disruptive acts of civil disobedience because such methods have not achieved their desired effects

Climate group says it will temporarily stop using public disruption as ‘primary tactic’

The British arm of the Extinction Rebellion environmental group said on Sunday it would take a break from acts of public disruption in order to bring more people on board its campaign for urgent action to counter climate change.

The climate group, which uses radical protesting tactics such as blockading traffic and spray painting buildings, said “very little has changed – emissions continue to rise and our planet is dying at an accelerated rate"