The Latest Breaking News from Extinction

One of Africa’s giant beetles is just one step away from extinction. New research has found that one species of the enormous Goliath beetles has been almost wiped out by the west African cocoa industry and, to a lesser extent, by the international trade in dried insects. Luca Luiselli, a…

Extinction is inevitable. Expected. Almost all (99%) species that have ever existed have died out. Those disappearances have largely occurred at consistent background rates. But in the context of mass extinctions, ecosystems are placed under immense pressure, at above-average speeds. Here, the language changes from the commonplace to the exceptional.

Three days after he was released from prison in December, a Tibetan village leader named Gonpo Namgyal died. As his body was being prepared for traditional Tibetan funeral rites, marks were found indicating he had been brutally tortured in jail.

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The choreographer and director’s impassioned trilogy, a co-production between Nederlands Dance Theater and Complicité, reaches its hugely moving conclusion

Brad Homewood is charged with four offences after a 2021 Extinction Rebellion protest at the Exxon/Mobil depot in Spotswood

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Crystal Pite and Simon McBurney’s three-act dance work on the state of the world turns the stage itself into a living thing, morphing between shades of sorrow, humour, fear and relief

Study explains how seeds and fruits eventually became large food sources

The Highland nymph, or Alpine coffee moth, is on the edge of extinction due to loss of mountain willow habitat, experts have said.

I'm still going to hunt the freak to extinction