Global warming is producing a rapid loss of plant species -- according to estimates, roughly 600 plant species have died out since 1750 -- twice the number of animal species lost. But which species ...

Halfway through what the IPCC have dubbed the most consequential decade for climate action, what are the most pressing ...

New research has identified the extent to which human colonization and hunting contributed to the extinction of New Zealand's ...

What happens when the biodiversity witnessed by one generation fades into memory the next? These questions are crossroads at ...

The sixth mass extinction isn’t a distant threat—it’s happening now. Species are vanishing at an alarming rate due to habitat ...

UCSB's Professor David Tilman just recieved the National Medal of Science for revealing the importance of biodiversity.

Once hunted to the brink of extinction, the humpback whale population has recovered extensively over the past half a century. In 1960, numbers were estimated at around 5,000 animals. Today ...

We are using more resources than the Earth can regenerate. As a result, we are now causing the sixth mass extinction on the planet, and we have made little progress in slowing the destruction of ...

Lucas Atwell CC BY-SA 3.0 Everyone knows about the mass extinction that ended the Age of Dinosaurs. About 66 million years ago, a seven-mile-wide asteroid slammed into our planet and began a mass ...

Staff at Cottingham High School near Hull have staged a sixth day of strike action amid fears of compulsory redundancies as a result of the planned closure of its sixth form. Members of the ...

The pair will be once again tasked with helping Aussie homeowners who are torn between deciding whether to sell up or renovate their homes. Over the last five seasons, the beloved twosome have ...