To save a diversity of plants and animals from the current mass extinction, the United Nations ... a promising new study suggests we focus less on the size of these nature reserves, and more ...

Eric Dinerstein, lead author of the study, said implementing protections at Conservation Imperative sites would not stop the sixth-largest mass extinction on Earth ... s climate cannot be stabilized ...

(Photo by Christian Ziegler) (CN) — Protecting ... 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 ...

The thorough study identified 16,825 ... and Colombia. “Protecting these last remaining habitats can prevent imminent extinction, provide important source populations for the future recovery ...

Researchers from the University of Chicago, the Smithsonian Institution and London’s Natural History Museum analysed fossil ...

The researchers hope that protecting these ... midst of the sixth major extinction crisis in the history of Earth, but the first attributed to human activities," study author Eric Dinerstein ...

A new study in the journal Frontiers in Science ... and mitigate the impact of the ongoing mass extinction, in an economically and politically feasible fashion. "We just need the political will ...

The study in the journal Frontiers in Science aimed to identify the highest value areas in hope that they be included in those protection plans, said Carlos Peres, a study co-author and ...

In the cold Northeast, where hundreds of timber rattlesnakes may overwinter in a single den, their mass exits in the spring ... While some snake hunters claim to be protecting livestock, which ...

Nearly a quarter of animals living in rivers, lakes, and other freshwater habitats face extinction ... and protecting water flows, particularly in drought-prone areas. The study can be viewed ...