Scientists say protecting primates and other umbrella species could conserve biodiversity, boost carbon storage and help slow ...

A comprehensive study of more than 1,100 springs in the American West warns that critical biodiversity hot spots are facing a ...

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Biodiversity underpins ecosystem functioning, human welfare and planetary resilience. Yet current rates of species decline and population losses far exceed those of the geological past, signalling an ...

Efforts to revive the thylacine and woolly mammoth are forcing conservationists to face a long-overdue debate over what kind ...

Global warming is producing a rapid loss of plant species -- according to estimates, roughly 600 plant species have died out since 1750 -- twice the number of animal species lost. But which species ...

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A 1991 hypothesis suggested that deforestation at Centinela in western Ecuador caused the immediate extinction of dozens of plant species believed to exist nowhere else. A 2024 reassessment finds that ...

And it reveals a big problem with the nation’s approach to saving endangered species.