The Latest Breaking News from Extinction

Indigenous Australians and Native Americans come together in the Red Centre to learn, from each other, how they can save their languages from extinction.

Australia once had vast oyster and mussel reefs, which anchored marine ecosystems and provided a key food source for coastal First Nations people. But after colonisation, Europeans harvested them for their meat and shells and pushed oyster and mussel reefs almost to extinction. Because the damage was done early – and…

Wildlife with little data faces double the risk of dying out – which may mean many more species are endangered than previously thought

"Knock-on effects such as financial crises, conflict and new disease outbreaks could trigger other calamities"

A new study suggests it's time to consider the possibility that climate change could wipe out humanity.

ST. LOUIS — Poaching and habitat loss are driving a species of exotic cattle toward extinction in the wild.

Global heating could become “catastrophic” for humanity if temperature rises are worse than many predict or cause a chain of events that haven't even been considered yet

Experts say the possibility it will cause societal collapse or human extinction is ‘dangerously underexplored’

A group of top climate scientists say the world needs to think about the ultimate climate catastrophe — human extinction — and how possible it is