And according to its most recent report, 700 new species are facing extinction. In total, 3,000 species were added to the list — each is evaluated and given a status ranging from “least ...
Dr Jane Goodall, the world-renowned primatologist and environmental scientist, visited United School International (USI) at ...
16 species of fish and more than 700 species of mammals — many of them, such as the jaguar, facing extinction. Hansen’s multidisciplinary studies also have focused on geology, geomorphology ...
WASHINGTON— After a petition and threat to sue from animal protection and conservation groups, the U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service today announced that the common hippopotamus may qualify for ...
Climate, on the other hand, might seem a curious addition to Voltaire’s list, given that we tend to think of climate change ...
researchers found 3,793 individual animals belonging to 419 different species, 52 of which are threatened with extinction. Nine of the exotic species they found, including endangered slow lorises ...
For species classified as "extinct in the wild", the zoos and botanical gardens where their fates hang by a thread are as often anterooms to oblivion as gateways to recovery, new research has shown.
As a biodiversity hotspot, the island nation of Madagascar is a natural test tube for studying evolution and extinction. The numerous species of now-extinct megafauna that once roamed there play a ...
Over a third of species and ecosystems in the United States are at risk of disappearing, including hundreds of plants and animals in Washington. In a newly released report, conservation research ...
It’s probably a matter of when and how, not if, we humans will meet our doom The species Homo sapiens evolved some 300,000 ...
For species classified as "extinct in the wild", the zoos and botanical gardens where their fates hang by a thread are as often anterooms to oblivion as gateways to recovery, new research has shown.
