WASHINGTON — The Center for Biological Diversity reached a legal agreement with NOAA Fisheries today requiring the agency to decide by Aug. 12 whether the smalltail shark warrants protection under the ...

Imagine an asteroid striking Earth and wiping out most of the human population. Even if some lucky people survived the impact ...

The 11 imperiled South Florida species face extinction-level threats from habitat-destroying development and sea-level rise, ...

Google has announced plans to deploy AI tools to prevent the extinction of endangered species of animals by preserving their ...

Less than a year ago, United States company Colossal Biosciences announced it had “resurrected” the dire wolf, a ...

The Trump administration plans to eliminate habitat protections for endangered and threatened species in a move environmentalists say would lead to the extinction of critically endangered species ...

The Center for Biological Diversity has petitioned the U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service to protect the Columbia yellowcress under the Endangered Species Act. Oregon Department of Agriculture Rare ice ...

An olive-colored minnow only found in southwestern Nevada is one step closer to life-saving federal protection after years of advocacy. The Fish Lake Valley Tui Chub, which gets its name from its ...

The Striped Newt, an amphibian native to Florida and Georgia, was denied endangered species protection in 2018 by the Trump administration. The U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service is now considering ...

Introduction / Partha S. Dasgupta and Peter H. Raven -- Prologue. Extinction : what it means to us / Martin Rees -- 1. Extinction in deep time : lessons from the past? / Neil Shubin -- 2. Biodiversity ...

Introduction: Accumulating absence : cultural productions of the sixth extinction / Genese Marie Sodikoff -- Part 1: The social construction of biotic extinction. A species apart : ideology, science, ...