In the first such global evaluation, Stanford biologists found more than 30 percent of all vertebrates have declining populations. They call for curbs on the basic drivers of these losses. S... Read more
Paul Ehrlich and others use highly conservative estimates to prove that species are disappearing faster than at any time since the dinosaurs’ demise There is no longer any doubt: We ar... Read more
Targeting conservation efforts to safeguard biodiversity, rather than focusing on charismatic species, could make current spending on threatened birds four times more effective, a new study... Read more
With only about one-sixth of the original coral cover left, most Caribbean coral reefs may disappear in the next 20 years, primarily due to the loss of grazers in the region, according to th... Read more
A project to revive long-gone species is a sideshow to the real extinction crisis “We will get woolly mammoths back.” So vowed environmentalist Stewart Brand at the TED conference in Long Be... Read more
Right now, cloning is not a viable conservation strategy. But some researchers remain optimistic that it will help threatened species in the future In 2009 the Brazilian Agricultural Researc... Read more