extinction

We admire sharks as a fearsome predator, and they have a special place in our culture as a creature that is both graceful and

The European Hamster is on the brink of extinction and France will be forced to pay heavy fines if they do not act now to save the species.

The Sumatran Orangutan is critically endangered and the Bornean Orangutan's population is just 14% of 50 years ago. Their habitat is increasingly under threat due to illegal logging, forest fires, mining and most critically convertion of forest to palm oil plantations. Find out what you can do to help save the Orangutan!

Outspoken NASA climatologist and IPCC author Jim Hansen gives an update on global warming, tipping points and the massive extinctions that could result.

More than 1 in 4 animals have disappeared in the past 35 years, according to a report published Thursday by the World Wildlife Fund conservation group.

Nope, the world will go on, no matter how much CO2 we emit, no matter how many plastic bags we throw away, no matter how many rainforests we destroy, no matter how many nuclear bombs we “test”. The planet won’t alter course, won’t implode or fall out of the sky, won’t, in short, bat an eyelash.

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If you live in the suburbs, like I do, the yard around your home is the closest you come to the natural environment on a day to day basis. This begs the question - Is your yard a natural environment? In his book 'Bringing Nature Home' Douglas Tallamy makes a case for replacing alien invasives in the home landscape with native plants specific to the area.

Just five months after its initial discover, Japan has already moved to protect the takaneruri kuwagata beetle (Platycerus sue Imura).

Believed extinct for 81 years, the Lord Howe Island phasmid now has a second chance -- but only if all of the rats are exterminated from its former home.

Big wins for the world's most endangered whale and several rare bird species.

How to Boil a Frog's FrogBlog gives you 11 funny suggestions on how to avoid any blame for the fall of civilization (with pictures!)

Conservationists and scientists scrambled Tuesday to determine what has killed at least 50 critically endangered crocodile-like reptiles in recent weeks in a river sanctuary in central India.

Scientists conservatively estimate that well over one-quarter of native Pacific salmon populations spawning in rivers and lakes from California to southern British Columbia have gone extinct. Here are lists of regional losses and salmon extinctions in the western United States.

Under threat from a thaw of Arctic sea ice, polar bears seem to be having a population explosion at U.N. climate talks on the tropical island of Bali.

There's a growing market for exotic pets such as parrots and lizards, but this market may be contributing to the extinction of some species. Make sure you don't get a Red List pet this christmas.