Wild Arabica coffee facing extinction
Scientists who have predicted the possible extinction of wild Arabica coffee (Coffea Arabica) within 70 years say urgent conservation measures…
Double whammy dinosaur extinction theory
Widely credited to have wiped out the dinosaurs, the giant asteroid that smashed into the Yucatán Peninsula 65 million years…
Wildlife extinction rates hugely over-reported
Calculating species extinction rates is a tricky business at the best of times, but a new research paper in Nature…
Toxin producing algae key to mass extinctions, claims new study
Algae, rather than asteroids, were the key to the end of the dinosaurs, claims a new study that notes that…
Frog communities undergoing “McDonaldization”
Under pressure from a fungal disease that has been labeled an “extinction filter” by researchers, frog communities in South America…
Lost world… found?
New evidence suggests that dinosaur bones found in the San Juan Basin date from after the supposed dino-doomsday, and that…
Elephant Extinction Mooted
African elephants are being slaughtered for their ivory at a pace unseen since an international ban on the ivory trade…
Species Extinction Threat Vastly Underestimated
Extinction risks for populations of endangered species are likely being underestimated by as much as 100-fold because of a mathematical…
Gloomy Prognosis For Amphibians
A study published in the journal BioSciencesuggests that many amphibious species are at risk of extinction because they are failing…
Smoking Gun For Permian-Triassic Extinction Found
Scientists have found evidence of a meteor impact in Antarctica that they believe caused the biggest mass extinction in Earth’s…
Gamma Ray Apocalypse A Long Shot
A supernova gamma ray burst that could extinguish all life on Earth is one apocalyptic scenario that doesn’t get much…
Geologists Hope To Disprove Asteroid Mass Extinction Scenario
Earth’s history has been punctuated by a number of mass extinctions wiping out nearly all life forms on the planet.…
Asexual Reproduction The First Step To Extinction
When species become asexual they could be taking the first step to extinction, say researchers from Imperial College London. They’ve…
Carnivores Facing Extinction Have Only Themselves To Blame
Carnivore species are more at risk of extinction due to their own intrinsic biological attributes than from an increasing human…