Koalas are among Australia’s most beloved animals, instantly recognizable by their fluffy ears, button noses and joey-filled ...

Healthcare providers across Nigeria have urged the National Assembly to withdraw the proposed National Health Facility Regulatory Agency Bill, warning that it would increase healthcare costs, ...

Stocked game fish have devastated aquatic wildlife, and conservation groups want to eradicate the invasive species and ...

Efforts to revive the thylacine and woolly mammoth are forcing conservationists to face a long-overdue debate over what kind ...

Having practiced spiritual training for many years and deepened my study of Buddhist philosophy, there is one thing I feel strongly. It is that Buddhism is fundamentally a teaching meant to lead to ...

High plant extinction rates are projected for southern Europe, the western U.S. and southern Australia by 2100, posing risks to plant species like these eucalyptus trees growing in Australia.

The millions of species humans share the world with are valuable in their own right. When one species is lost, it has a ripple effect throughout the ecosystems it existed within. But there’s a hidden ...

If you liked this story, share it with other people. Extinction rates appear to have slowed since their peak in the early 1900s, suggesting not a reprieve for nature but a shift in how and where ...

Extinction rates are not spiraling upward as many believe, according to a large-scale study analyzing 500 years of data. Researchers found that species losses peaked about a century ago and have ...

Prominent research studies have suggested that our planet is currently experiencing another mass extinction, based on extrapolating extinctions from the past 500 years into the future and the idea ...

A poignant recounting of the tangled and unnatural histories of extinction and empire, and how extinction is not necessarily inevitable but instead, is a political choice. One of the most famous and ...

Rachael has a degree in Zoology from the University of Southampton, and specializes in animal behavior, evolution, palaeontology, and the environment. Rachael has a degree in Zoology from the ...