The Latest Breaking News from Extinction

London police arrested six individuals after the Extinction Rebellion environmental group staged a protest inside Britain's parliament on Friday, while it was not in session, gluing themselves around the speaker's chair.

The protest group read out a speech to the empty House of Commons

Once-in-a-decade plans to protect the natural world and halt its destruction will be decided in Canada in December

A survey of all native tree species in the contiguous U.S. exposes which threatened species aren't safeguarded against extinction and proved one species extant.

The iconic North American monarch butterfly Danaus plexippus plexippus was recently listed in the IUCN’s Red List of Threatened Species, signalling that its ongoing decline could lead to extinction. The compounding effects of habitat degradation, insufficient food and water and climate change have led to these dwindling numbers.

The GLA Conservatives have urged Sadiq Khan to step in and prevent Extinction Rebellion’s planned occupation of Hyde Park next month.

The protest will feature activists lying on the ground outside St Giles Cathedral, covered in white sheets, next to placards highlighting the causes of climate-related deaths

In July, the monarch butterfly was added by the International Union for Conservation of Nature to its red list of threatened species, a recognition that the insect’s continuing decline could lead to extinction. Though the monarch population increased 35% from December 2020 to December 2021, its numbers overall have been…

Groups assisting workers and migrants have faced violence and arbitrary arrest since February 2021 coup, report says.