The Latest Breaking News from Extinction

Fears grow for endangered species as the US president sets about dismantling basic laws to protect them to make way for oil and gas drilling

RHS is asking people to look for under-threat varieties such as the Sussex Bonfire and Mrs William Copeland

London Zoo is celebrating the birth of 33 tiny endangered froglets after they travelled from the Chile

Before species go extinct, their populations often shrink and become isolated. Healthy populations tend to have a large gene pool with many genetic variants circulating. But the path to extinction erodes genetic diversity, because a species’ gene pool shrinks as the population declines. Losing genetic diversity limits the ability of…

Protesters will gather outside court of appeal in support of activists, who say judges defied decades of precedent

It was a dark day when Kawasaki discontinued the 2-stroke back in 2007. I cried. Our writers cried. The world cried. Collectively, we bemoaned Team Green killing our favorite brappy-bois, though we understood that it's hard to build an environmentally neutral 2-stroke and make a profit. Plus, 4-strokes are just so…

University of Cambridge research suggests living collections have collectively reached peak capacity

Firefighters in Los Angeles continue to battle devastating wildfires that have killed at least 27 people and left thousands of homes destroyed. A new fire also provoked evacuation orders north of the city.

Humans are causing enormous damage to the Earth, and about one million plant and animal species are now at risk of extinction. Keeping track of what’s left is vital to conserving biodiversity.