In 2025, the IUCN Red List officially declared several animal and plant species extinct, highlighting global biodiversity ...

STORY: A U.N. summit opening this week in Montreal is aimed at protecting worldwide ecosystems and averting potential mass extinctions of global wildlife. Negotiators from nearly every nation and ...

The loss of the large-bodied grazers following the late Quaternary thousands of years ago drastically altered fire regimes worldwide, increasing grassy ecosystem fire activity, particularly where ...

Invasive species cost the world at least $423 billion every year as they drive plant and animal extinctions, threaten food security and exacerbate environmental catastrophes across the globe, a major ...

A new online platform shows where best to protect land in order to safeguard biodiversity and stem carbon emissions. The Global Safety Net combines six primary data layers: existing protected areas, ...

Half of plant and animal species could be threatened if global temperatures rise 4 degrees Celsius. A new climate report warns of mass extinctions of animals, including polar bears and penguins. Up to ...

The severe global threat posed by invasive alien species is underappreciated, underestimated, and often unacknowledged. According to a major new report by the Intergovernmental Platform on ...

A new report that links global warming to the recent extinction of dozens of amphibian species in tropical America is more evidence of a large phenomenon that may affect broad regions, many animal ...