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Can Avatar: The Way of Water save 3D films from extinction?

James Cameron’s 2009 blockbuster silenced many of those who doubted 3D cinema’s potential, writes Louis Chilton. Thirteen years on, those doubts have returned with a vengeance

The Independent UK

UN chief says humanity ‘a weapon of mass extinction’: here are 7 ways to help stop a species wipeout

Biodiversity is at a crucial point and pressure is growing on the international community to commit to new goals to protect it.

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Adam Driver’s new film 65 blasts dinosaurs into extinction. What’s not to love?

This time-travelling sci-fi thriller has massive flop written all over it. Or it could be the greatest piece of cinema ever created

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How Do My — and Your — Greenhouse Gas Emissions Threaten Biodiversity?

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

Capital & Main

A desert icon faces near-certain doom

Desert tortoises are facing multiple extinction threats, including from climate change

Salon

How to stop this 'weapon of mass extinction’

Biodiversity is at a crucial point and pressure is growing on the international community to commit to new goals to protect it, Charis Palmer and Chris Bartlett.

Newsroom.co.nz

How daredevil drones find nearly extinct plants hiding in cliffs

Ben Nyberg stood on a knife-edge ridge along Hawaii’s Na Pali Coast, his eyes scouring the leafy recesses of the neighboring red-rock ridges. It was quiet, if not for a faint buzzing of a drone flying among flocks of curious white-tailed tropicbirds.

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Extinction Rebellion and Just Stop Oil activists disrupt energy awards bash in Aberdeen

Eco warriors staged a loud demonstration outside the Offshore Energies UK event at Aberdeen’s P&J Live venue with drums, singing and chanting.

Daily Record

Marine mammals, corals pushed to extinction: Conservation group

IUCN sounds alarm over growing extinction threat to large marine mammals, abalone species and Caribbean corals.

Al Jazeera

The sixth mass extinction is happening now, and it doesn’t look good for us

Species are going extinct at an unusually high rate. Our efforts now will prevent a future too ghastly to contemplate, says Corey Bradshaw

Newsroom.co.nz

Marine life hit by ‘perfect storm’ as red list reveals species close to extinction

Unsustainable human activity putting dugongs, abalone shellfish and pillar coral at risk of disappearing, says latest IUCN update

The Guardian - UK

Nearly 10% of marine life threatened with extinction -Red List

The effects of human activity from climate change to pollution are "devastating" marine life, with nearly a tenth of underwater plants and animals assessed so far threatened with extinction, the latest Red List of Threatened Species showed on Friday.

Reuters

Aussie species join extinction risk list

More Australian species have been added to a global list of imperilled species - and one frog is now considered gone forever.

AAP

Dugong, coral, abalone face extinction threat, IUCN says

An international conservation organization says populations of a vulnerable species of marine mammal, numerous species of abalone and a type of Caribbean coral are now threatened with extinction

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7 ways to help stop a species wipeout

Biodiversity is at a crucial point and pressure is growing on the international community to commit to new goals to protect it.

The Guardian - UK

Three ways Cop15 can help save a million species from extinction

In this week’s newsletter: Dismal results from previous conferences mean the stakes are high at this year’s event – this time it simply has to be different

WEKU

A UN biodiversity convention aims to slow humanity's 'war with nature'

Delegates from nearly 200 countries are gathering in Canada to try to fix humanity's relationship with nature. The convention comes during an emerging extinction crisis.

The Independent UK

Extinctions, shrinking habitat spur 'rewilding' in cities

With many types of wildlife struggling to survive and their living space shrinking, some are finding their way to big cities

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Los Angeles Times

As a sacred minnow nears extinction, Native Americans of Clear Lake call for bold plan

LAKEPORT, Calif. — Spring runs of a large minnow numbering in the millions have nourished Pomo Indians since they first made their home alongside Northern California’s Clear Lake more than 400 generations ago.

Wales Online

NOW and Bat Conservation Trust encourage people to protect bat population

Bats are one of the most endangered species in the UK, with six of our 18 indigenous species at risk of extinction

The Guardian - UK

The biodiversity crisis in numbers - a visual guide

Nature is under threat as never before, but what does that actually mean? We explain what is at stake – and why action at Cop15 is more crucial than ever

The Conversation

Men are slowly losing their Y chromosome, but a new sex gene discovery in spiny rats brings hope for humanity

The sex of human and other mammal babies is decided by a male-determining gene on the Y chromosome. But the human Y chromosome is degenerating and may disappear in a few million years, leading to our extinction unless we evolve a new sex gene.

The Conversation

How pastoral farming can help to avoid a biodiversity crisis

The world is losing its biodiversity. An estimated 41,000 animal species are now threatened with extinction. World leaders will convene at the UN COP15 biodiversity conference in Montreal this month to discuss ways of reversing this decline.

Tribune News Service

Mass extinctions are happening. Can they be stopped?

Scientists, conservationists and government representatives will gather this week in Montreal to decide on a plan to stop a stunning loss of plant and animal life around the globe. The United Nations' COP15 — a conference on biological diversity — offers a rare chance for countries to set mutual commitments…

The Guardian - UK

The Guardian view on biodiversity collapse: the crisis humanity can no longer ignore

Editorial: A million animal and plant species are perilously close to extinction. Their fate and ours are intimately connected

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