Species extinction

What are the factors that cause plants and animals to go extinct, either hundreds of millions of years ago or in the present day?

Almost a third of the Earth will need to be protected by 2030 and pollution cut by half to save our remaining wildlife, according to a United Nations agency.

Up to 1 million animal species may be at risk of disappearing — yet another sign we're in the middle of a 6th mass extinction

As the human population increases, we use more land for agriculture, cities, and towns, which leads to habitat destruction, degradation, and fragmentation.

As humans continue to expand our use of land across the planet, we leave other species little ground to stand on. By 2070, increased human land-use is expected to put 1,700 species of amphibians, birds, and mammals at greater extinction risk by shrinking their natural habitats, according to a study by Yale ecologists published in Nature Climate Change. The Nile lechwe is an already endangered antelope species in East Africa. This study predicts that under the most plausible ecological…

New research on extinctions shows that their ecological impact can’t be measured in numbers of species lost.

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It was a little over 20 years ago when I saw a slender-billed curlew. I was in Morocco; the bird, lanky and reasonably slim in the beak department, was feeding on a patch of wetland decorated with wil

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