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They are targeting Shell and BP specifically

This grief-stricken yet very funny tale about the search for an endangered fish speaks to our age of mass extinctions

A long time ago, the carbon was rock, buried in the earth as securely as a secret. Then an environmental catastrophe of unprecedented scale began. The rocks burned, and the atoms inside them disassembled into carbon dioxide and other greenhouse gases.

Stemming global warming and species extinction requires a rethink of the global food system. The risk of pandemics could be the trigger for change.

New research suggests that dinosaurs may have survived the mass extinction that occurred during the Triassic and Jurrasic because they were already adapted to freezing conditions.

Sandfish are migratory freshwater fish found only in South Africa that can grow to over half a metre in length. They sport a pronounced downturned mouth which is used to graze algae off rocks and to grub in mud and sand on the stream bed.

Some parts of the world froze regularly and dinosaurs there ‘did just fine’, scientists say

It's taken six years for the greater glider to slide from relatively common, to threatened and now endangered under the latest federal listing.

About 100 of Australia’s unique land mammals face extinction. Of the many threats contributing to the crisis, certain fire regimes are among the most pervasive.