The Latest Breaking News from Extinction

A summer of wildfires across Canada sat alongside news of global deforestation, rapid loss of Antarctic ice mass and Swiss glacial ice depletion. Then in mid-October, the United States Fish and Wildlife Service delisted 21 species from the Endangered Species Act due to extinction.

Roger Hallam said the aim of the September 2019 protest was to ‘close Heathrow for the foreseeable future’, the jury said.

Group promises more action against governing body’s controversial Shell sponsorship

Nine women used hammers and chisels to shatter building’s windows in April 2021 as part of Extinction Rebellion protest

Rice's whales are one of the world's newly discovered whale species – and already one of the most endangered. Protections for the whales in the Gulf of Mexico are not coming fast.

Around 20 protesters will target the governing body's AGM this weekend to denounce its deal with Shell

The Science Quiz | Recent animal extinctions from Asia

Heavy metals mimic female sex hormones, increasing the risk of extinction for green sea turtles.

A group of 13 Extinction Rebellion protesters face up to three years in jail for allegedly disrupting parliament for three minutes with anti-fossil fuel chants.

A new study doubles the number of species at risk of extinction to 2m, driven by the latest data on insects. Losing these tiny creatures would have huge implications for life on Earth

Agricultural land-use change poses a particularly significant threat, scientists said.