The Latest Breaking News from Extinction

Animal Rebellion activists have filmed themselves breaking into an animal testing facility to free more than a dozen beagles. The group, aligned with eco-warriors Extinction Rebellion, can be seen using a saw to cut through a security gate at the MBR facility in Wyton, Cambridgeshire at 5am on Tuesday. One…

Biodiversity refers to the variety of life found on Earth and underpins the natural systems which grow our food, cleanse our air and water and regulate our climate. Human life cannot exist without it. But around one million animal and plant species are now threatened by extinction.

A supercomputer has predicted that more than a quarter of the world’s animals and plants will go extinct by the end of the century.

Diving birds like penguins, puffins and cormorants may be more prone to extinction than non-birds">diving birds, according to a new study by the Milner Centre for Evolution at the University of Bath. Read on for details:

Billed as the event that’ll determine the fate of the entire living world, the United Nations’ COP15 nature summit has wrapped up in Canada with a historic deal, which includes protecting roughly a third of nature by 2030.

The actions come in the midst of an extinction crisis that climate change is accelerating.

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An enthralling project to save the northern white rhino is raising challenging questions as scientists debate the ethics of de-extinction. Mattha Busby reports

Climate change is one of the main drivers of species loss globally. We know more plants and animals will die as heatwaves, bushfires, droughts and other natural disasters worsen.

It is time to pay attention to the other climate crisis: species extinction

Modelling shows that if we continue on current trajectory, global heating will drive a cascade of extinctions in plants and animals