More than one million species are now at risk, and many scientists believe Earth has entered a sixth mass extinction. This ...

A cataclysm engulfed the planet some 252 million years ago, wiping out more than 90% of all life. Known as the Great Dying, the mass extinction that ended the Permian geological period was the worst ...

Our planet now faces a global extinction crisis never witnessed by humankind. Scientists predict that more than 1 million species are on track for extinction in the coming decades. But there’s still ...

The end-Triassic extinction is often overshadowed by the disaster that killed the dinosaurs, but on its own it ranks among ...

Planet Earth is in an extinction crisis, and climate change is affecting us and all species on Earth now and in the future. No mention of this from the presidential candidates. This is crucial to ...

By Eric Washburn When I was a kid growing up in Aurora in the late 1960s and early 1970s, one of my favorite things to do was ...

In 2019, an independent international science group—the Intergovernmental Science-Policy Platform on Biodiversity and Ecosystem Services—announced that about 1 million species around the world are ...

Humans have wiped out hundreds of species — with many more on the brink or experiencing large declines in population. Some scientists have argued that we have entered a “sixth mass extinction” event ...

A Nature Ecology & Evolution paper found that of 42 African raptor species, 37 had suffered a population decline over just three generations (up to 40 years). Raptors like secretarybirds (Sagittarius ...

By Mongabay.com World Turtle Day is celebrated every May 23 to raise awareness about the threats faced by turtles and ...