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Planet in early stages of sixth mass extinction, claims study

Study by international team of scientists says this time extinctions are being caused by human activities

How long will life on Earth survive?

Scientists say events like volcanic activity, an expanding sun, asteroids or a freezing core may bring about destruction

Scientists discover four-winged dinosaur fossil in China

Reptile lived 125 million years ago and is the largest ever

Vulture nemesis still in drug store shelves

Ban on diclofenac flouted by over a third of the pharmacies

South Asian nations will now cooperate to save the vulture

Most rapid decline in vulture populations recorded in Asia

Northern white rhino on verge of extinction

Only six members left after male’s death on Friday

Only 3,000 tigers left in the world, says IUCN

While India has registered an impressive growth in the tiger population, studies reveal that the big cats could be wiped off the face of the …

Large-scale hunting pushes yellow-breasted Bunting towards extinction

Known in Chinese as the ‘rice bird’, the Bunting is considered a delicacy in China and Cambodia

The world is heading towards mass extinction, study suggests

Previous study had claimed that climate change is accelerating the risk of such extinction

Animals, plants shifting home ranges faster than believed

These species have moved 17 km towards the poles and 11 m up in altitude per decade on a global average

We have crossed the line on climate change, says study

Report reveals that we have breached four of nine limits and threatened the planet’s health

Monarch butterflies face risk of extinction due to habitat loss

The number of monarch butterflies in hibernation colonies of Mexico has reached a 20-year low, says report

Thirty one per cent of world’s cacti facing threat of extinction: IUCN

Unscrupulous collection of live plants and seeds for trade and private ornamental collection affects 47 per cent of the threatened species

Saiga antelope numbers rise in Kazakhstan after mass die-off last year

Aerial census conducted by Kazakh government brings encouraging news

Humans now drive evolution on Earth, both creating and destroying species

Human activity doesn't just reduce biodiversity – new research explores how we are continually creating newspecies and ecos

To cull or not

The killing of a gorilla in the Cincinnati Zoo renews the moral existential dilemma

Caught in captivity

While about 50 per cent of conservation breeding programmes remain only on paper, the ongoing projects are riddled with unscientific protocols …

Radical overhaul needed to halt earth’s sixth great extinction event

Changes in climate could have contributed, but humans with their hunting and fires were almost certainly the death knell for many of these species

Pushed to the brink of extinction

The Nigeria-Cameroon Chimpanzee fights a losing battle against innumerable threats

Unchecked mining spells doom for Saranda forest in Jharkhand

Unregulated large-scale mining activities have decimated plant and wildlife populations in the once-rich Saranda forest in Jharkhand

Four more countries join global coalition to protect pollinators

This takes the number of signatories for the ‘Coalition of the Willing on Pollinators’ to 16

The pygmy hog: to the brink of extinction and back

The pygmy hog, the smallest member of the pig family, was almost wiped out, but a careful breeding programme, as well as taking care of the …

Fossil teeth reveal new facts about a mass extinction 260 million years ago

Did a change in climate caused or contributed to a mass extinction around 260 million years ago?

Contrived extinction

The colour bar in African conservation has come to occupy the centre of public perception, driven mostly by the social media