Red roving fowl

India, which gave the red jungle fowl, the mother of all poultry to the rest of the world, is now importing poultry from outside and destroying …

Meet the Lazarus creatures: six species we thought were extinct, but aren't

It is extremely difficult to determine whether a species is extinct, or just absent from an area

'Exhibits at National Museum of Natural History destroyed in all probability'

A massive fire had broken out in the museum building on Monday night

Mercury can lead to extinction of Arctic bird

Threats from various sources have contributed to a 70 per cent decline in the bird’s population in Canada

Back from plant heaven

South Africa tries to bring cycads, plants that coexisted with the dinosaurs, back to life

Avoiding climate breakdown depends on protecting Earth’s biodiversity — can the COP15 summit deliver?

COP15 brings together parties to the UN Convention on Biological Diversity (CBD) with a goal of negotiating this decade’s biodiversity …

Extinctions, an epic reality

The gripping non-fiction shows how reality is actually more dramatic than the imagination

Genes and extinction

GENETICS AND THE EXTINCTION OF SPECIES·Editors – Laura F Landweber and Andrew P Dobson·Princeton University Press·…

Edged to extinction

Despite all our efforts, we may really not be able to save those rainforest fragments

Enter humans, exit animals

A long line of woes

Fisherfolk are unintentionally killing seabirds

History or just story

THE ECOLOGICAL INDIAN, MYTH AND HISTORY· Shepard Krech III· W W Norton Company, USA·pp318·US $27.95

Hair oil

Hair and oil spills: what's the connection?

Disappearing tree

An evergreen tree found only in Africa is on the verge of extinction because of large-scale stripping of its bark

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Flight to extinction

One in eight birds will vanish in the next 100 years, says a new report

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World lost 68% vertebrates in 1970-2016: WWF

Freshwater wildlife down 84%; Latin America, the Caribbean particularly hit

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Remains of rare dodo found

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