New research finds extinction rates have been declining for a century, challenging assumptions of an ongoing mass extinction.

As Earth's temperature rises sharply, the threat of a global mass extinction has loomed. But U of A researchers say that fear ...

When it comes to mass extinctions, you probably imagine giant volcanic eruptions or asteroids raining fire from the sky, but ...

A new study finds that , amid ongoing climate change, extinction rates have slowed, currently being at their lowest levels in ...

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Extinction Rebellion is a global environmental movement rebelling against the corporate destruction of a liveable planet.

The most charitable reading is that the announcement is itself a form of deterrence: neither China nor Russia have conducted ...

Almost all life on land and in the ocean was wiped out during "The Great Dying," a mass extinction event at the end of the Permian Era about 250 million years ago. New evidence suggests that the Great ...

Indeed, recent studies have indicated that the humble honey bee possesses a remarkable talent for mathematics and can even ...

A sudden, unexplained mass die-off is decimating sea urchins around the world, including catastrophic losses in the Canary ...

Extinction rates appear to have slowed since their peak in the early 1900s, suggesting not a reprieve for nature but a shift in how and where losses occur. Much of the damage was concentrated on ...

A fossil only tells part of the story. When an animal's body is preserved as a fossil, there are often pieces missing, and ...