Humanity at a Crossroads: Cooperation or Extinction

We hold in our hands vast power to both create and destroy, the likes of which have never been seen in history.

The Silent E: The Extinction of Experience and Empathy • The Revelator

The loss of biodiversity around the planet comes with very human costs, I tell the hosts of The Silent Why podcast.

A Mass Extinction Has Already Started, Scientists Say

Mass extinction events have ravaged life on Earth at least five times over the last 450 million years or so — and we're now experiencing the sixth.

What to expect from the world's sixth mass extinction | DW | 11.01.2022

Humans alive today are witnessing the beginning of the first mass extinction in 65 million years. What does biodiversity loss mean for us and the environment?

Can Roadless Areas Help Stem the Extinction Crisis in the United States? • The Revelator

A new study looked at a group of forest lands that hold big conservation potential but aren’t adequately protected.

How to Save Sharks and Rays From Extinction • The Revelator

New research reveals that one third of sharks and their relatives are at risk. But the scientists say several clear policy choices can help.

Updated Extinction Assessment Drives Fresh Call to 'Save Life on Earth'

"Every new look at extinction shows that we're running out of time to save wildlife and ultimately ourselves."

Humanity Is Still Trying To Be Born

Listen to a reading of this article: ❖ Things are fucked. That's our current situation in a nutshell. In a slightly bigger nutshell, things are fucked because powerful people are making them fucked, and they won't stop making things fucked unless...

A Mass Extinction 250 Million Years Ago Seems to Have Had Multiple Causes

The end-Permian mass extinction (EPME) was quite the mass extinction event, wiping out 80-90 percent of land and sea species – and researchers have now identified a new contributing factor to this period of devastation.

Mass extinctions don’t drive evolutionary change: life does | Aeon Essays

There’s no rhythm to mass extinctions, no pattern to evolutionary recovery. Life bursts forth, in cacophonous adaptation

Un dinosaure à la tribune de l’ONU pour implorer : "Ne choisissez pas l’extinction"

La porte de la salle de l’assemblée s’ouvre, sur rai de lumière aveuglant. Le pas est lourd, pesant et sonore....

Il y aurait des signes avant-coureurs d'une potentielle extinction de masse

L’activité humaine provoque des proliférations microbiennes toxiques qui rappellent celles observées lors de la « grande mort », l'extinction la plus grave de l'histoire.

'Half-Measures Are No Longer Enough': Haaland Urged to Sign Order to Halt Extinction Crisis

"The United States can restore its position as a global leader in conservation and prevent many of these extinctions," the letter—led by the Center for Biological Diversity—asserts, "but it must take swift action that matches the extent and scale...

Species Spotlight: The Greater Hog Badger, Cornered by a Hunting-Driven Extinction Crisis • The Revelator

This fearless carnivore lives a secretive life and digs fantastic tunnels — but that can’t protect it from poachers and snares.

The Fight Against Extinction Requires Biocultural Restoration • The Revelator

The combined extinctions of Hawai‘i’s biodiversity and elements of Hawaiian culture represent the great unraveling of an eco-civilization.

US says ivory-billed woodpecker, 22 other species extinct

BILLINGS, Mont. (AP) — Death’s come knocking a last time for the splendid ivory-billed woodpecker and 22 more birds, fish and other species: The U.S. government on Wednesday declared them extinct. It’s a rare move for wildlife officials to give up...