The Latest Breaking News from Extinction

Climate campaign has said it is to temporarily stop using public disruption tactics

Climate protest group says temporary shift will ‘prioritise relationships over roadblocks’

Nature is in crisis, and it's only getting worse. As species vanish at a rate not seen in 10 million years, more than 1 million species are currently on the brink. 

Experts at a UK baby online resource company say the name 'Karen' and 'Donald' are both in danger of going extinct.

Animal Rebellion activists have filmed themselves breaking into an animal testing facility to free more than a dozen beagles. The group, aligned with eco-warriors Extinction Rebellion, can be seen using a saw to cut through a security gate at the MBR facility in Wyton, Cambridgeshire at 5am on Tuesday. One…

Biodiversity refers to the variety of life found on Earth and underpins the natural systems which grow our food, cleanse our air and water and regulate our climate. Human life cannot exist without it. But around one million animal and plant species are now threatened by extinction.

A supercomputer has predicted that more than a quarter of the world’s animals and plants will go extinct by the end of the century.

Diving birds like penguins, puffins and cormorants may be more prone to extinction than non-birds">diving birds, according to a new study by the Milner Centre for Evolution at the University of Bath. Read on for details:

Billed as the event that’ll determine the fate of the entire living world, the United Nations’ COP15 nature summit has wrapped up in Canada with a historic deal, which includes protecting roughly a third of nature by 2030.