A recent study co-authored by a University of Minnesota researcher identified a way to save thousands of species from extinction, but researchers are struggling to convince people to protect the land.

Without sharks, ocean ecosystems would become unbalanced, leading to overpopulation of some species and the collapse of ...

The oceans have always been alive with mystery, beauty, and change. For the first time, scientists have measured how much ...

Researchers identified in the study published in Frontiers in Science critical areas that should be preserved to prevent a massive drop off in diversity of life on Earth. They outline a plan to ...

Global population trends among 71,000 animal species show nearly half are "sliding toward extinction," some of them at alarming rates, a new study warns.. Researchers found 48% of the species in ...

The United Nations' COP15 — a conference on biological diversity — offers a rare chance for countries to set mutual commitments and milestones for restoring and protecting key lands and waters ...

Nearly a quarter of animals living in rivers, lakes, and other freshwater habitats face extinction, according to a new study published Wednesday in Nature.. Researchers found that 24 percent of ...

And, those like Ceballos who argue a major mass extinction has already begun, point to calculations that indicate we could reach that grim, 75 percent mile marker in just a few centuries.

A research team linked nearby stellar explosions to at least one, possibly two, mass die-offs after calculating the supernova rate of stars closest to the sun in the past 1 billion years.

New research suggests the violent explosions of dying stars may have caused two of Earth’s biggest mass extinctions millions of years ago. CNN values your feedback 1.

Crocodylomorphs survived both the end-Triassic mass extinction (roughly 201.4 million years ago) and the end-Cretaceous mass extinction (about 66 million years ago), which killed all non-avian ...