The Latest Breaking News from Extinction

A shocking new analysis estimates that almost 13,000 lemurs are slaughtered and eaten every year.

Climate protester labelled ‘unwanted Christmas decoration’ as he scales tree as ceremony gifting spruce to London is held

As prices keep climbing and sentiment keeps sinking, Donald Trump rewrote reality in his latest Fox interview. The grocery aisles say one thing about the economy, but his teleprompter says another. Guess who he thinks is correct?

This hit debut from Finland is intensely readable, but could have delved more deeply into the links between human progress and environmental destruction

The fen orchid can now be found in seven locations in England and three in Wales

The orchid’s increasing population in Britain is a bright spot in otherwise ‘stark picture’ for British wild plants, the latest Red List shows.

Language continues to evolve at an increasingly rapid pace in the present day. Social media platforms and texting services create new slang words that become popular within a short period of time. The short-lived nature of new words in language makes them disappear as quickly as they emerge, but certain…

For decades, wildlife conservation policy has aimed to protect endangered species until there are enough individual animals alive that the species won’t go extinct. Then the policymakers declare victory.

Modern life is waging a war against ecosystems around us and inside us. Keeping our own microbes healthy is another reason to demand action to preserve the natural world