The Latest Breaking News from Extinction

Consumption in wealthy countries including US and UK is responsible for 13% of global forest loss beyond their borders, study finds

Environmental advocates are calling for the United Nations to save an endangered dinosaur fish as a farming ban is under consideration.

Death looms large in the pair’s dance trilogy but, as Complicité’s artistic director says, confronting it is ‘integral to and essential for life’

Climate change and other threats have 16 species headed for extinction no matter how much money is spent, new research shows.

London Zoo is celebrating the birth of 33 tiny endangered froglets after they travelled from the Chile

Before species go extinct, their populations often shrink and become isolated. Healthy populations tend to have a large gene pool with many genetic variants circulating. But the path to extinction erodes genetic diversity, because a species’ gene pool shrinks as the population declines. Losing genetic diversity limits the ability of…

Protesters will gather outside court of appeal in support of activists, who say judges defied decades of precedent

It was a dark day when Kawasaki discontinued the 2-stroke back in 2007. I cried. Our writers cried. The world cried. Collectively, we bemoaned Team Green killing our favorite brappy-bois, though we understood that it's hard to build an environmentally neutral 2-stroke and make a profit. Plus, 4-strokes are just so…

University of Cambridge research suggests living collections have collectively reached peak capacity