Earth looked much different not just millions, but even decades and centuries ago. Many animal species that once existed are ...

Somewhere on Earth, species are vanishing faster than ever. The 2025 IUCN Red List update revealed that nearly 49,000 species ...

Over a million species of animals and plants are now hanging by a thread, more than ever before in human history, says the International Science-Policy Platform on Biodiversity and Ecosystem Services ...

Forbes contributors publish independent expert analyses and insights. I write about biodiversity and the hidden quirks of the natural world. When we think about the scope of our world’s diversity, ...

“Every time anyone eats anything, it has an impact on the other species we share the planet with,” said Dr Thomas Ball, a postdoctoral researcher in the University of Cambridge’s Department of Zoology ...

A proposal intended to expedite land use and development permitting would restrict the types of evidence state agencies could ...

A new list of threatened mammals in South Africa, Lesotho and Eswatini shows that 11 more species have edged closer to ...

East-west coastlines trap marine species during warming, blocking escape routes and increasing extinction risk over millions ...

Researchers studying exquisitely preserved Scottish fossils say Prototaxites represents an entirely extinct eukaryotic lineage - a “new form of life” in the sense that it does not fit into known major ...

Migratory land animals encounter manmade barriers such as roads. A study reports negative impacts of an industrial road on ...

The Trump administration wants to make economic impacts a factor in what was previously a science-based decision on what's ...