The Latest Breaking News from Extinction

The path to getting a species declared extinct is longer than you might think. From Fall 2023 Fellow Paula Levihn-Coon.

Until recently, the Juma seemed destined to disappear like countless other Amazon tribes decimated by the European invasion

There are around 300 wolverines left in the wild in the US, and could face extinction due to the melting of their habitat

Hunted almost to extinction for their pelts, the voracious mammals are being reintroduced to their traditional haunts in Haida Gwaii, to the consternation of some fishing communities

The tenacious wolverine is under threat as climate change threatens to melt away mountain habitats.

Volcanic activity and climate change may have played a bigger role in dinosaur extinction than previously thought

Three-year pause in fishing is the only way to prevent disappearance, researchers say

Outdoor and feral cats can seriously harm native ecosystems. Here's how to fix it

Australian freshwater turtles support healthy wetlands and rivers. Yet one in three turtle species is threatened with extinction. And there is still much we don’t know about them.

A summer of wildfires across Canada sat alongside news of global deforestation, rapid loss of Antarctic ice mass and Swiss glacial ice depletion. Then in mid-October, the United States Fish and Wildlife Service delisted 21 species from the Endangered Species Act due to extinction.

Roger Hallam said the aim of the September 2019 protest was to ‘close Heathrow for the foreseeable future’, the jury said.