While the average person may believe we’re losing species faster than we can discover new ones, that may not be the case. A ...
The strategy, known as synthetic biology, is gaining momentum globally as a conservation tool and human health solution, ...
Somewhere on Earth, species are vanishing faster than ever. The 2025 IUCN Red List update revealed that nearly 49,000 species ...
While conservation efforts have bolstered the populations of many species considered to be threatened in 2025, many animal and plant species continue to dwindle in number, with some even going extinct ...
If granted protections, the species would be the first to be protected under the current Trump administration.
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The millions of species humans share the world with are valuable in their own right. When one species is lost, it has a ripple effect throughout the ecosystems it existed within. But there's a hidden ...
The Trump administration wants to make economic impacts a factor in what was previously a science-based decision on what's ...
It was the ninth “most wanted” lost species — a list that comprises over 2,000 species across 160 countries. Near-extinct species rediscovered for first time in 200 years: 'Nature surprises us' first ...
At some point in the deep past, humans may have come frighteningly close to disappearing altogether. Here’s what we know, ...