Science news articles about 'extinction crisis'

Almost half of the world's primate species are facing extinction, a comprehensive global study warns, with habitat loss the main threat.

... margins and the open ocean continue unabated. He predicts that overfishing will lead to extinction of edible species and have an indirect effect on other levels of the food chain. Larger dead zones ...

... University of New South Wales. "Our region has the notorious distinction of having possibly the worst extinction record on earth. This is predicted to continue without serious changes to the way we ...

GLAND, Switzerland, Nov. 2 (UPI) -- The International Union for Conservation of Nature says its Red List of Threatened Species now shows 17,291 species are threatened with extinction.

The most comprehensive assessment of the world's mammals has confirmed an extinction crisis, with almost one in four at risk of disappearing forever, according to The IUCN Red List of Threatened ...

The 2008 Red List of Threatened Species details dismaying trends. A new "Dow Jones index" approach aims to stem the tide by tracking selected species like stocks.

... 12, 2009 symposium "Will the Rainforests Survive? New Threats and Realities in the Tropical Extinction Crisis*," hosted by the Smithsonian Institution, Gregory Asner of the Carnegie Institution's ...

Satellite data and other research reveal that huge tracts of abandoned tropical forests that were once logged or farmed are regrowing, prompting a contentious debate among world scientists convening ...

... , but also estimates of the impact of global warming, Harte said. "Quantifying the magnitude of the extinction crisis involves estimating the richness of life in different habitats," he said. "The ...