Our research looked at data from the government’s annual baking competition. Upon close analysis, we find a dangerous lack of ...

This shift, called ecological marginalization, leads to a higher species extinction risk. According to the researchers, the quality of the habitat matters to a species' extinction risk and ...

There have been five great die-offs in the history of our planet, when at least 75 percent of the known species disappear. The last mass extinction was 66 million years ago, when an asteroid wiped ...

It would already take 3 million years to recover the diversity of mammal species driven to extinction since humans settled on the island 2,500 years ago. But much more is at risk in the coming ...

Scientists and bird enthusiasts are witnessing the fruits of their conservation labor, as populations of some bird species continue to grow despite previously being on the brink of extinction.

At least three quarters of the known species are disappearing from Earth, Barnosky said. Mass Extinctions Happen Every 27 Million Years This mass extinction starts with species loss, includes ...

Five days after the U.S. Energy Department announced a $700 million conditional loan to an Australian mining company pursuing ...

From the late 1800s, market hunting, poaching, game hogs and using feathers for women’s fashion had brought many species to the edge of extinction: The more than 60 million bison that had dominated ...

Both provided sites for nail-biting negotiations over the challenging but urgent imperatives to halt global warming and reduce species extinction ... and challenges facing the Asia-Pacific ...

disk abalone and giant abalone -- are designated as "endangered," the second highest of the three categories for those facing the risk of extinction on the IUCN's Red List of Threatened Species ...

Almost 2,000 native species are officially listed as “threatened” in Australia – but how many have you actually heard of?