The Latest Breaking News from Extinction

Here before the dinosaurs, plants now face extinction due to illegal trade and vanishing tropical forests

Protesters, including one abseiling from a bridge, cause traffic chaos in Adelaide's CBD during the morning commute.

Researchers warn rapid action needed to prevent the extinction of an ancient fish species found only in Macquarie Harbour

Researchers say Tanya Plibersek's pledge of no new extinctions is under serious threat as the only known population of an endangered ancient Tasmania ray continues to nosedive.

Climate protesters interrupt Home Secretary twice during speech to National Conservatism conference

Home Secretary Suella Braverman also had a speech interrupted by XR activists

Extinction Rebellion activists twice interrupted Suella Braverman as she addressed the National Conservatism conference.

The first UK National Conservatism Conference was briefly disrupted this morning as a protester acting on behalf of Extinction Rebellion took to the stage during a speech by Jacob Rees-Mogg.

Two Extinction Rebellion activists interrupted the Home Secretary as she addressed right-wingers in central London - hours after Jacob Rees-Mogg was interrupted by a similar protester

“We have a sense that we are about to face immense upheavals,” Maja Göpel writes, and we need to find ways to tackle multiple problems at once. The context for this statement is an account of a 2019 incident staged by Extinction Rebellion protesters in a London tube station.

Australia is a world leader in land clearing and species extinctions. Tree-planting programs are among the restoration measures needed to bring threatened species back from the brink. But do these programs always work?