The month’s sharpest science shots, selected by Nature ’s photo team.

As humans continue to encroach on our planet, we are driving a mass extinction that some experts call a "biological holocaust." Since more and more species are dying, it creates an increasing number ...

In the past couple of decades, several species have been driven to extinction thanks, in large part, to human interference.

The near-extinct northern white rhino could be revived following a "crucial" genome breakthrough. It is one of the rarest animals on Earth, with just two females left and no natural way for the ...

Rhino Caregiver Zachary Mutai with one of the northern white rhinos at Ol pejeta Conservancy in Lakipia County. The conservancy hosts the only three northern white rhinos remaining in the world.

EDITOR’S NOTE: Call to Earth is a CNN editorial series committed to reporting on the environmental challenges facing our planet, together with the solutions. Rolex’s Perpetual Planet Initiative has ...

Scientists from around the world aim to apply gene editing and use a surrogate mother to begin bringing back the northern ...

In a groundbreaking effort to save the Northern White Rhino from the brink of extinction, scientists have embarked on an ambitious mission-implanting lab-created embryos into surrogate rhinos in hopes ...

Veterinarians have successfully harvested eggs from the last two surviving northern white rhinos, taking them one step closer to bringing the species back from the brink of extinction, scientists said ...

SAN DIEGO (CNN) - The world's northern white rhinoceros population plunged by a quarter on Sunday with a death at the San Diego Zoo Safari Park. Nola, a 41-year-old northern white rhino, died after ...

Sudan, the last male northern white rhino, feeds himself inside an enclosure at Ol Pejeta Conservancy in Nanyuki, Kenya, on April 18, 2015. Sudan has died. (Sun Ruibo/Xinhua/Sipa USA/TNS) JOHANNESBURG ...

Editor’s Note: Call to Earth is a CNN editorial series committed to reporting on the environmental challenges facing our planet, together with the solutions. Rolex’s Perpetual Planet Initiative has ...