Nearly 21,000 monitored populations of mammals, fish, birds, reptiles and amphibians, encompassing almost 4,400 species around the world, have declined an average of 68% between 1970 and 2016 ...

Bees are essential to the health of the Earth’s ecosystems, but the populations of many species are dwindling. These ...

The role of species diversity in ecosystem stability is well appreciated, but population diversity within a species is also important and often overlooked. An analysis of over 50 years of data on ...

10 species our population explosion will likely kill off. Countdowns. By Joseph Castro published 10 October 2011 When you purchase through links on our site, we may earn an affiliate commission.

They found 48% of these species are declining in population size, with fewer than 3% seeing increases, according to the study published Monday in the journal Biological Reviews.. Co-author Daniel ...

Human Population Growth and extinction. We're in the midst of the Earth’s sixth mass extinction crisis. Harvard biologist E. O. Wilson estimated that 30,000 species per year (or three species per hour ...

In a groundbreaking discovery, botanists have identified a towering, ancient species of tree in Tanzania’s Udzungwa Mountains ...

Invasive axis deer have become a widespread problem, even in the state of Hawaii. Authorities are attempting to mitigate the ...

U.S. bird populations are experiencing alarming declines due to factors such as habitat loss and climate change, according to a new report identifying 112 species that have reached a "tipping ...

Nearly half of the world's already threatened migratory species have declining populations, the first of its kind U.N. report found. More than a fifth of the nearly 1,200 migratory species ...

The analysis evaluates the extinction risk of 18 species of large ocean fish over nearly seven decades. It provides “a view of the open ocean that we have not had before,” says Colin ...