Climate crisis: even temporarily overshooting 2°C would cause permanent damage to Earth’s species

Deep emission cuts are needed now & can’t be pushed back to a future date, show a group of researchers

Oceans Great Dying 2.0: Earth’s climate moderator is warming, faster

Oceans are heating up as they cross their natural capacity to sink carbon and atmospheric heat induced by GHGs emissions. It will further …

Oceans Great Dying 2.0: Mass extinction haunts oceans

Scientists warn an imminent mass annihilation of marine species similar to one 250 million years ago that wiped out most lives in oceans 

These mites living on your face may go extinct and that's not good news

Demodex keeps skin pores clean

Large share of India’s threatened endemic species in Kerala, Tamil Nadu and Karnataka: Study

Tackling threats from agro industry, small-holder farming, grazing plantations most effective in reducing extinction risk  

Good while it lasted - II: 6th mass extinction an all pervasive loss

The loss of biodiversity is on land, water and air, across all continents, and indicates mass extinction

Extinction threat: Vaquita porpoise global population down to only 10

The species saw a 98% decline in population in 2 decades

Good while it lasted - III: Why this is a mass extinction

All evidence and calculations indicate a bleak situation for bio

Good while it lasted - I: 6th mass extinction underway, courtesy humans

Earth is losing species at an unprecedented rate; This marks the beginning of the Anthropocene Epoch, a self-aggrandising nomenclature that …

Geneva Biodiversity Conference: Countries debate ‘aspirational goals‘ amid unprecedented biodiversity loss

The crucial global framework to stop biodiversity loss is already delayed by two years due to the pandemic

The earth likely holds more than 9,000 undiscovered tree species; and they are in danger

Undiscovered tree species are more likely to be present in in tropical and subtropical dry forests, which are threatened by development projects

Simply Put: 6th mass extinction

The jury is still out on the de-extinction of the woolly mammoth

There are several ethical concerns in bringing an extinct species back to life, some scientists have said about the woolly mammoth; others …

No, woolly mammoths are not returning; But we may get Arctic elephants

Geneticist George Church and his business partner Ben Lamm, who recently launched a company to ‘bring back’ mammoths, respond to …

World Biodiversity Day: Ever more important amid COVID-19 pandemic

Various levels and forms of biodiversity such as ecosystems, species, genes across all taxonomic ranges are threatened, and facing an alarming …

Conservation centres in 5 states among host of ideas to protect vultures

The National Board for Wildlife approved an action plan for vultures recently   

‘Hong Kong’s lost tigers show us a species once gone, cannot return’

Down To Earth speaks to journalist John Saeki about his upcoming book on the lost tigers of Hong Kong

Mammals under threat: 2nd extinction wave underway in Australia, Caribbean

New study predicts 558 species of mammals to be extinct by turn of century

Six million hectares of threatened species habitat up in smoke

The Australian bushfire is wreaking havoc on the fauna of the country

A season in hell: Bushfires push at least 20 threatened species closer to extinction

Burnt species include the long-footed potoroo, Kangaroo Island’s glossy black-cockatoo and the Spring midge orchid

Bushfires have reshaped life on Earth before. They could do it again

Australia is one of only 17 'megadiverse' countries, much of which is concentrated in areas torched by the current fires

Global Eco Watch: Major ecological happenings of the week (December 29, 2019 – January 5, 2020)

Down To Earth brings you the top happenings in the world of global ecology

Look back at the decade: Extinction

Future loss of species to reduce plant production

Ungulate thought to be extinct re-discovered in Vietnam

The silver-backed chevrotain is neither a rodent nor a cervid but is, in fact, the world's smallest hoofed animal

Plants are going extinct up to 350 times faster than the historical norm

Conserving biodiversity 'hotspots' like Madagascar doesn't mean leaving out coldspots