Climate change and habitat destruction are driving species to extinction at an alarming rate. The impact extends across all ...

Global warming is producing a rapid loss of plant species—according to estimates, roughly 600 plant species have died out ...

said Natural England Work is under way in Cornwall to help save a native bird which nature experts have described as "dangerously close to extinction". The county is one of the last areas in ...

“Humanity Edging Closer To Catastrophe”: Iconic Doomsday Clock moves one second closer to midnight as global existential threats rage. Clock factors include nuclear weapons, climate crisis, artificial ...

Getty A small marsupial species has been saved from near-extinction thanks to the ongoing work of a conservation group. The brush-tailed bettong, which resembles a tiny kangaroo and similarly ...

Like many skeptics of the idea of “de-extinction,” she once thought there was no point to bringing back an extinct animal with no home to go to. Now, unlike the dodo, Shapiro is adapting.

After a pandemic intermission, Lamm and Church started Colossal in 2021, and the goal is still the same: de-extinction in service of ecosystem conservation. Wildlife populations have shrunk by 73% ...

Editor’s Note: Call to Earth is a CNN editorial series committed to reporting on the environmental challenges facing our planet, together with the solutions. Rolex’s Perpetual Planet ...

Earth's climate changed dramatically during the Late Pleistocene and Early Holocene 130,000 to 7,000 years ago, when cold glacial cycles transitioned into the current warmer interglacial.

Once hunted to the brink of extinction, the humpback whale population has recovered extensively over the past half a century. In 1960, numbers were estimated at around 5,000 animals. Today ...