Lonesome George was a celebrity tortoise. Millions of humans made the pilgrimage to see him while he lived, and his death was international news. Why? He wasn't particularly large for a Galapagos ...

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Across the planet, islands are homes to species of animals that cannot be found anywhere else. Isolated from the mainland, these species become genetically different from close relatives simply ...

Emperor penguins and Antarctic fur seals are facing the threat of extinction due to climate change, a new conservation assessment has revealed. Both populations have seen a dramatic decline in recent ...

Almost half of Indigenous communities living cut off from the world face extinction within the decade due to logging, mining and tourism, the NGO Survival International warned Monday. The Barron's ...

A nod of thanks to Professor Curt Stager, whose article in the Adirondack Daily Enterprise moved me to write this letter to the ADE. I wrote the majority of the following as a post in my Facebook page ...

If current extinction trends continue, global shark populations will lose much of their variety, thereby threatening ecosystems where specialized species serve vital roles, researchers have found. In ...