Fresh research has revealed that marine animals are facing an unprecedented risk of extinction because of climate change and other human impacts, even in seemingly pristine coastal regions. The ...

The World Wildlife Fund’s Living Planet Report reveals a sharp decline in animal populations worldwide, especially in Latin America and the Caribbean. This loss in biodiversity will harm human ...

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Human activity has decimated global wildlife, reducing species counts by an average of 60% over the last four decades, according to an alarming new World Wildlife Fund report. Species are disappearing ...

More than 9 million acres have burned as hundreds of wildfires rage in Canada across, charring an area about 1.5 times the size of Massachusetts. The blazes have already consumed more than double the ...

Are we really living in the Anthropocene, the geological time marked by the global impact of human activity? And if so, when did it begin? These are questions that the Anthropocene Working Group is ...

A quarter of vulnerable vertebrate species are affected by human-made threats to over 90 per cent of their habitat, and approximately 7 per cent are affected by human activity across their entire ...

Excess carbon dioxide isn't just building up in the atmosphere – the oceans are holding onto more of the stuff too, fizzing them up like soda. As the seas get warmer and more acidic, all kinds of ...

Humans are pushing 1 million species to the brink of extinction, and nature is declining "at rates unprecedented in human history," according to a new report from the United Nations. A summary of the ...

Scientists have analysed for the first time the amount by which human activity forces animals to alter their movements. What's surprising is that episodic activity - like hunting, oil pipeline ...