For most of human history, extinction has been understood as an immutable fact of nature—a one-way door that, once closed, ...

These sites, numbering 16,825, make up around 1.22 percent of the land surface of the Earth, with their protection being critical to preventing "the sixth great extinction of life on Earth ...

By Mongabay.com Residents of Mafia Island in Tanzania don’t really eat sea cucumber; they call it jongoo bahari, or “ocean ...

Protecting just more than 1 percent of land as nature preserves could prevent most extinctions, according to new research published Monday. The research in the Frontiers in Science journal ...

"It is better than the impacts of poaching." Officials discover unconventional solution to prevent rhino poaching: 'We might ...

(Photo by Christian Ziegler) (CN) — Protecting biodiversity in even just a tiny percentage of the Earth's surface could prevent thousands of species from extinction, a group of conservationists and ...

Almost everyone knows about the American alligator. But did you know we also have an American crocodile? The species is native to coastal areas of peninsular Florida. Its full geographic range ...

They rely on life support systems in the Snail Extinction Prevention Program trailer, kept in environmental chambers that control temperature and release mist to simulate their native rainforest ...

Image Credit: sogane / Shutterstock In a recent article published in the journal PLoS ONE, researchers investigated the minimum fertility rate required to prevent the extinction of a sexually ...

Last year, Professor Suzannah Williams began a project with a noble aim and a hilarious title: the Poo Zoo. The scheme, ...

Trump has withdrawn the U.S. government from an agreement to restore native fish being decimated by hydroelectric dams in the ...