One bright spot is green sea turtles, which have recovered substantially, the IUCN said as it released its latest Red List of ...

Once common across Europe, North Africa and West Asia, the slender-billed curlew has not been officially sighted since 1995, ...

More than a quarter of all animals, plants and fungi assessed are at risk of extinction, according to the latest IUCN Red ...

With biologists from the U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service furloughed because of the shutdown, a critical release of 400 captive ...

The latest Red List of Threatened Species assessment released Friday shows that more than a quarter of all animals, plants and fungi assessed are at risk. It found three species of Arctic seals now ...

What was once the paradigmatic catastrophe, the biblical flood, took forty days and forty nights; today’s exemplar is one big ...

Fifteen species of bumblebees, which pollinate legume plants like peas and peanuts, are now classified as threatened. The ...

Arctic seals and birds are coming under increasing threat, mainly due to climate change and human activity, according to an ...

According to the assessment plan, the aim is to establish a nationally coordinated, participatory and upgradable ‘Red Listing ...

Three years after the federal government listed a tiny Nevada toad on the endangered species list, a geothermal company seeking to develop a renewable power project near the toad's only known ...