The Latest Breaking News from Extinction

Eco activists scaled Labour’s London headquarters on Monday and doused its front steps in black paint.

Humans evolved from physics to chemistry to biology, leading to Homo genus 2.5 million years ago. Homo sapiens wiped out many species, including some of their own, and now live in the Anthropocene age. Cockroaches, mice, and lizards are some of the few creatures that have survived and still scare…

It is time to evolve ideas to arrest the decline of languages and the world must at least try to find ways and means to preserve some of its endangered languages

A coalition of environmental groups is suing Utah's government for, in its view, failing to stop the Great Salt Lake from shrinking at an alarming pace

Tanya Plibersek announces crayfish, frogs, insects and plants among wildlife now under threat amid renewed calls for reform

Invasive alien species are driving biodiversity loss and extinctions in every country, all over the world.

The extinction crisis is slamming the Amazon, but it's so poorly understood, we don't know what's being lost

A study published on Thursday claims that human ancestors teetered on the brink of extinction over 900,000 years ago. Based on a new method of analysis, scientists found that our ancestors survived in a group of less than 1,300 individuals.

Thousands of emperor penguin chicks are thought to have died across Antarctica last year as a result of a “catastrophic breeding failure”.