Rising temperatures are pushing many species to the brink, alongside disease, pollution and unsustainable fishing.

A new study suggests that extreme temperatures could lead to a mass extinction event, ending the reign of humans and mammals ...

The African penguin — the only species that breeds on the continent — has been uplisted to critically endangered by the ...

A species of echidna once thought extinct has been captured on camera in Indonesia.

At CBD COP16, bold calls to action were underwhelmed by weak pledges and glacial decision-making and moments of inspiration ...

A recent biodiversity meeting acknowledged the serious problem of deforestation while a new report on global environmental threats to trees offered a startling estimate.

reptiles and amphibians threatened with extinction combined. Planet-warming fossil fuel pollution is threatening the trees, which suck that pollution out of the atmosphere, meaning their loss is ...

To de-extinct the animal, the company plans to genetically ... and yips like a thylacine, that doesn’t mean Colossal has truly de-extincted the animal, which was overhunted by humans after ...

For thousands of years humankind has wiped out other species to advance its own interests — think neanderthals in Europe and dodos on Mauritius. The CEO of de-extinction company Colossal ...

Rachel Reeves has welcomed the Bank of England’s decision to cut interest rates from 5 per cent to 4.75 per cent. She said ...

Read on for our ranking of the scariest extinct creatures we're relieved we never had to face... Biodiversity Heritage Library/Wikimedia Commons/CC BY 2.0 It is the sheer size of the megatherium ...