Extinction

Koalas were recently given the distinction in Australia as their numbers have dropped to around 80,000. What's the future hold for these small herbivores?

A new U.N. report finds one million species face extinction. The Department of the Interior and the Fish and Wildlife Service are adding to the problem.

New documents show how quotas to delist or downlist endangered species may be influencing conservation decisions.

Climate change protests around the world are stopping traffic and leading to widespread arrests.

New research shows that culling invasive, non-native animals on just 169 islands around the world over roughly the next decade could help save almost 10 percent of island-dwelling animals at risk of extinction.

The porpoise is closer to extinction than ever before.

FEMA calls Trump's bluff, a study shows gay dads are excellent parents, and giant creatures are alive and well.

Just because we have CRISPR doesn't necessarily mean we should use it.

Plants and animals in the tropics are threatened by a range of issues, warn researchers writing in the journal Nature.

Proposed changes to the landmark legislation would limit protections for the thousands of endangered plants and animals covered under the law.

We are on the brink of being able to genetically engineer an extinction. Should we?

A collection of some of our most important and timely stories, from a new cover story on efforts to reintroduce the grizzly to California to a FOIA-based investigation into the Department of the Interior's current priorities.

California plant lovers are finding—and nurturing—species once presumed to be extinct in the wild.

Teams of researchers are trying to uncover the cause of death for 31 Verraux's sifakas Lemurs—which could spell the end for the critically endangered species.

With no more than 800 individuals left in a fragile habitat, the Tapanuli orangutan could face extinction not long after we became aware of its existence.

A new study finds populations of several frog species in Panama appear to be gaining resistance to a deadly pathogen that can lead to extinction.

One hundred years after its extinction, the Carolina parakeet is more than an extinct species. It's a reminder that we have one last chance.

Climate change may drive as many as one in three parasite species extinct by 2070. That's very bad.

A new study finds that the populations of thousands of vertebrates, many of which have yet to raise concern, are decreasing.

New research suggests that the mass extinction event that occurred 66 million years ago spurred something of an explosion of new frog species.

Limited resources combined with the rate at which the number of people is increasing makes the need for solutions especially urgent.

Climate change is set to erode the reef at a record pace. What used to take centuries is now happening in less than a generation.

A wave of new research points to a disturbing cause for the woolly mammoth's extinction. Can we prevent ourselves from repeating the same mistake?

The surprising way fruit-eating animals serve as a buffer against climate change.