The planet is on the cusp of triggering the sixth mass extinction event. Conserving a small percentage of land could make all ...

Sixty-six living species were deemed extinct in 2022, according to the International Union for Conservation of Nature. In other planetary crisis news, the UN’s 2022 State of the Global Climate report ...

Conservation dogs, also known as detection dogs or conservation canines, are specially trained pups. Similar to other kinds of detection dogs, like those who sniff out bombs, drugs, or missing people, ...

Veronica Frans receives funding from the National Science Foundation. Jianguo "Jack" Liu receives funding from National Science Foundation and Michiga AgBioResearch. A biodiversity crisis is reducing ...

These peaceful places are home to many of the rarest creatures found nowhere else on Earth. More than 20 species listed under the federal Endangered Species Act and dozens more imperiled mammals, ...

At a meeting of top conservation groups this week, a bioethics question took center stage: Should scientists be allowed to tinker with the genes of wild plants and animals? The tentative consensus so ...

To conserve Earth’s biodiversity, many countries are pushing to protect more lands and oceans. Protected areas, a “geographically defined area which is designated or regulated and managed to achieve ...

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Four dozen tiny pupfish are swimming in a constructed habitat in a giant glass structure once meant to house humans.

Twenty-four students, 19 seniors and five graduate students, in Professor David Berg’s Conservation Biology class on Miami’s Hamilton campus have had the chance to impact the future of endangered ...

Get your news from a source that’s not owned and controlled by oligarchs. Sign up for the free Mother Jones Daily. Here’s the thing: Whichever numbers you plug into the calculation, you get the same ...