The Latest Breaking News from Extinction

In the tropical dry forests of northern Colombia, a small team is gradually restoring the degraded habitat of the rare cotton-top tamarin

Valuable eels are in decline all over the world, leading to a new push for restrictions on trade to try to help stave off extinction

Australia is home to some of the world's rarest reptile species, putting them at high risk from the illegal wildlife trade, experts say.

Cause behind one of the planet’s biggest extinction events remains poorly understood

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

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

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…