Get all your news in one place.

100's of premium titles.
One app.

Start reading

Get all your news in one place.

100's of premium titles. One news app.

Start reading

The Latest Breaking News from Extinction

Tassie tigers in the Barrington Tops?

Talk of bringing the thylacine back from extinction brought to mind an old story.

Newcastle Herald · Aug 21, 2022

Resurrecting the Tasmanian tiger may be a noble idea – but what about preserving existing species?

While de-extinction research may benefit conservation efforts overall, we shouldn’t have to rely on it to give a wildlife a future

The Guardian - AU · Aug 21, 2022

A plan to bring the Tasmanian tiger back from extinction raises questions

The thylacine had trademark stripes and, rare in the animal world, abdominal pouches in both females and males. The last known specimen died in a zoo in 1936.

WEKU · Aug 20, 2022

From analysis to the latest developments in health,
read the most diverse news in one place.

The Guardian view on de-extinction: Jurassic Park may be becoming reality

Editorial: We should be keeping endangered species alive rather than bringing animals back from extinction

The Guardian - UK · Aug 19, 2022

Everton exposed why Brian Clough's Nottingham Forest were heading for Premier League extinction

Everton showed by Brian Clough's Nottingham Forest were going down in the Premier League's first season when the clubs met at Goodison Park

Liverpool Echo · Aug 19, 2022

De-extinction company plans to bring back the Tasmanian tiger

Colossal Biosciences, a Dallas company pursuing plans to bring woolly mammoths back to the Arctic tundra, is setting its sights on bringing back another extinct species: the Tasmanian tiger.

Tribune News Service · Aug 17, 2022

Tasmanian tiger: Scientists hope to revive extinct marsupial in world-first

The de-extinction bid would take several breakthroughs and some doubt it can be done

Evening Standard · Aug 17, 2022

Read news from The Economist, FT, and more,
with one subscription

Scientists are trying to resurrect the Tasmanian tiger. So when did the last one die and what about all those sightings?

Partners in a new science venture say a living baby Tasmanian tiger might be as little as 10 years away. But before we start seeing them in fenced-off areas of the wilderness, let's take a look at what led to its extinction in the first place.

ABC News · Aug 17, 2022

Mission to bring back Tasmanian tiger takes a star turn with Hemsworths’ investment

Nearly 100 years after its extinction, scientists say thylacines may once live again, after a ‘‘giant leap’’ in a project to resurrect the Tasmanian tiger.

The New Daily · Aug 17, 2022

De-extinction: scientists are planning the multimillion-dollar resurrection of the Tasmanian tiger

University of Melbourne partners with US biotech company to plan genetic restoration of the thylacine

The Guardian - AU · Aug 16, 2022

Rare smoky mice back in the NSW wilderness

It is hoped the release of 13 critically endangered smoky mice into a NSW national park will save a species that is on the brink of extinction.

AAP · Aug 15, 2022

Invasive species of feral pigs help to save Australia's native crocodiles

The saltwater crocodile came close to extinction in the 1970s, but an invasive species of feral pig could be responsible for helping population numbers increase once more

Daily Mirror · Aug 15, 2022

Beavers fight back against climate crisis and heatwaves with water-filled wetland

Once hunted for extinction in the 16th century, Britain's beavers are fighting back against the soaring heat, the National Trust has said

Daily Mirror · Aug 14, 2022

French climate activists fill golf course holes with cement, protesting against water ban exemption amid drought

Climate activists have sabotaged luxury golf courses in the south of France, protesting against the "leisure industry for the most privileged" and its exemption for the country's water ban.

ABC News · Aug 14, 2022

Get all your
news in one place.

100's of premium titles.
One news app.

Evening Standard · Aug 11, 2022

Extinction Rebellion protests have cost police £60million since 2019

XR members are expected to take to the streets of London again for three days from September 10

ABC News · Aug 9, 2022

Invasive myrtle rust fungus poses 'unprecedented' risk to native trees

Some Australian native plants — including paperbarks, lilly pillies, eucalypts and bottlebrush — are grappling with their own pandemic as the exotic myrtle rust fungus spreads.

ABC News · Aug 9, 2022

Aunty Kathleen grew up having to 'yarn in secret'. Now she's helping revive her Indigenous language

Indigenous Australians and Native Americans come together in the Red Centre to learn, from each other, how they can save their languages from extinction.

The Conversation · Aug 9, 2022

Once the fish factories and ‘kidneys’ of colder seas, Australia’s decimated shellfish reefs are coming back

Australia once had vast oyster and mussel reefs, which anchored marine ecosystems and provided a key food source for coastal First Nations people. But after colonisation, Europeans harvested them for their meat and shells and pushed oyster and mussel reefs almost to extinction. Because the damage was done early – and…

Get all your
news in one place.

100's of premium titles.
One news app.

The Conversation · Aug 8, 2022

Thousands more species at risk of extinction than currently recorded, suggests new study

New research suggests the extinction crisis may be even worse than we thought. More than half of species that have so far evaded any official conservation assessment are threatened with extinction, according to predictions by researchers from the Norwegian University of Science and Technology.

The Guardian - UK · Aug 8, 2022

The most awe-inspiring and exuberant birds are facing extinction first – let’s stop nature becoming boring

From toucans and puffins to iridescent hummingbirds, the most unique creatures are the most vulnerable to human impacts, says Lucy Jones, author of Losing Eden

The Guardian - AU · Aug 6, 2022

‘Silent extinction’: myrtle rust fungus spreads to WA’s Kimberley

Researchers fear spread of invasive disease could be disastrous for Australia’s diverse plant life and are calling for urgent national response

Daily Mirror · Aug 6, 2022

Eco activists threaten to blockade Parliament for weeks in war on oil as heatwave looms

Campaigning group Just Stop Oil claim it will be Britain’s biggest ever campaign of civil disobedience. Plans were revealed at a meeting last week attended by 500 people including Jeremy Corbyn

The Guardian - UK · Aug 4, 2022

‘Generally ignored’ species face twice the extinction threat, warns study

Wildlife with little data faces double the risk of dying out – which may mean many more species are endangered than previously thought

Irish Mirror · Aug 4, 2022

Climate Endgame: Risk to human extinction or total societal collapse 'dangerously underexplored' say scientists

"Knock-on effects such as financial crises, conflict and new disease outbreaks could trigger other calamities"

Mic · Aug 3, 2022

Scientists say we haven't given enough thought to human extinction

A new study suggests it's time to consider the possibility that climate change could wipe out humanity.

1 … 55 56 57 58

Coverage From

People

From analysis to the latest developments in health,
read the most diverse news in one place.

Organisations

Australian Research Council

712 stories

Sydney Morning Herald

404 stories

Extinction Rebellion

302 stories

University of Melbourne

Read news from The Economist, FT, and more,
with one subscription

Topics

Places

Fourteen days free

Download the app

One app. One membership.
100+ trusted global sources.