The Latest Breaking News from Extinction

More Australian animals have been added to the international red list of threatened species, sounding the alarm here in Australia and around the world.

Two preserved great auk specimens displayed at a museum in 1971. The last pair of great auks were killed in 1844.

Conservationists called on shipping and fishing industries to do more to bring the animals back from the brink of extinction

Pulsating with tidal energy, the Dublin-based poet’s imaginative first collection is a harrowing wake-up call shot through with optimism

With their protective shell, this now endangered species has survived mass extinctions and lives throughout the world – including as pets in our home. Here are some more fun facts about pet turtles.

Jon Tester is fighting to keep his Senate seat amid the prospect that Democrats like him are now facing political extinction in the state

As nations meet in Colombia to confront species and ecosystem loss, the onus is on the global north to put science and collaboration at the heart of the issue, says Angela McLean, the UK’s chief scientific adviser

How can we protect wild animals when the world's forest cover continues to shrink? This is just one of the many issues under discussion at the Cop16 biodiversity summit in Cali, Colombia. In West Africa, certain emblematic species such as the elephant are at risk of extinction. The head of…

With a million species on the brink of extinction and 70 percent of global ecosystems degraded, the Cop16 biodiversity summit opens in Colombia on Monday as the window to prevent devastating losses is closing.

Why have Atlantic salmon populations dropped so dramatically in British rivers, and is fish farming to blame?

Young children’s lives are increasingly spent indoors. They have less access to green spaces, their parents are concerned about safety, and there’s also the draw of digital entertainment. This shift away from the natural world has been evocatively named “the extinction of experience”.