By Ben Aris in Berlin “Any further delay in global action to slow climate change and adapt to its impacts will miss a brief ...

In the aftermath of Hurricane Maria’s assault on the Caribbean island of Dominica in 2017, researchers made a heartbreaking ...

The endangered kakapo is a flightless bird native to New Zealand. Its population is growing, but its parasites have dwindled.

Native Hawaiian honeycreeper birds are being wiped out by avian malaria. Scientists think they can battle the problem by ...

Gene-edited animals or plants wouldn’t have a chance if released into a barren habitat or a poaching hotspot. Genomic tools ...

Forty-six percent of tree species in Mesoamerica are threatened with extinction. Researchers hope a new regional study will ...

A shocking new study reveals humanity’s near-extinction event that nearly erased our species 1 million years ago. Only 1,280 individuals survived a dramatic population collapse triggered by ...

Cooper stated that perhaps they should be celebrated more because vultures play an integral role in the ecosystem, ...

The constant deluge of bad news about rising global temperatures and their impacts can make it feel like the world is ending. Is it?

Ultimately, the extinction of humans "would reveal something about the way we treated the Earth," said Basmajian. "It would ...

Biodiversity is critical to humanity's sustainable future, but global species extinction is accelerating due to environmental ...

More than 96% of deforestation, or human-caused, permanent removal of forest cover, occurs in the tropics.