The strategy, known as synthetic biology, is gaining momentum globally as a conservation tool and human health solution, ...

WASHINGTON— Conservation groups including the Center for Biological Diversity will deliver hundreds of thousands of comments Thursday to the Department of the Interior from people protesting Trump’s ...

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 ...

PORTLAND, Ore.— President Trump’s executive order declaring a national energy emergency substantially undercuts protections for endangered species in the United States. The order weakens the ...

Humans have wiped out hundreds of species — with many more on the brink or experiencing large declines in population. Some scientists have argued that we have entered a “sixth mass extinction” event ...

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 ...

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 ...

The idea of resurrecting extinct organisms is alluring; I would love to see one of the strange Cambrian animals like Hallucigenia and Opabinia, feathered dinosaurs, the giant hornless rhino "Walter" ...

The Late Devonian represents a critical interval in Earth’s history, marked by a profound restructuring of marine biodiversity and a series of mass extinction events. This period witnessed extensive ...

A new study challenges a decades-old assumption about the loss of Hawaiʻi’s native waterbirds. Challenging a half-century-old ...

Speciation and extinction are the twin engines that have sculpted the diversity of life on Earth. Speciation, the process by which new species arise from ancestral populations, is driven by a mixture ...

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, ...