For decades, scientists treated the end of Earth’s habitability as a problem for the far future, measured in several billion ...

While the average person may believe we’re losing species faster than we can discover new ones, that may not be the case. A ...

The strategy, known as synthetic biology, is gaining momentum globally as a conservation tool and human health solution, ...

Tens of thousands of years ago, the first wave of a worldwide tsunami now known as the “Sixth Extinction” swept across the ...

Scientists are cataloguing life on Earth at a pace that would have seemed impossible a generation ago, yet a growing share of ...

Andean condors are the biggest raptors in the world — and are vital to their ecosystem ...

East-west coastlines trap marine species during warming, blocking escape routes and increasing extinction risk over millions ...

The Endangered Species Act is no help yet.

A new list of threatened mammals in South Africa, Lesotho and Eswatini shows that 11 more species have edged closer to ...