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Byline: Patrick Greenfield and Phoebe Weston The world's largest investment banks provided more than $2.6tn (£1.9tn) of financing linked to the destruction of ecosystems and wildlife last year, according to [...]

Byline: Naaman Zhou Environmental science degrees have been hit with funding cuts of nearly 30%, as experts warn that it will affect Australia's ability to cope with drought, bushfires, mass [...]

I read the Sept. 4 article ('Livestock ship carrying crew of 42 sinks amid storm off Japan's coast,' In Brief) about the 5,800 cows that died at sea in a [...]

Byline: Sam Noble Ever-increasing global temperatures and warnings that we have just 10 years to alter the path we're on if we're to avoid rising sea levels and mass extinctions [...]

Increases in carbon emissions caused by human activity are 'outpacing' the rate of CO2 emissions during an ancient global-warming event that sparked mass extinction, researchers have warned. A study, published [...]

Byline: Adam Gabbatt One of the worst affected industries during the coronavirus outbreak has been, ironically, a profession that should have been reporting on it. Scores of newspapers have laid [...]

This week we take a step closer to a cause which has been close to my heart for the past three years: a new GCSE in natural history. The consultation [...]

In his famous book The Black Swan: The Impact of the Highly Improbable, published in 2007, Nassim Nicholas Taleb discusses the effects of events that come as a major surprise [...]

Will our species go extinct? The short answer is yes. The fossil record shows everything goes extinct, eventually. Almost all species that ever lived, over 99.9 per cent, are extinct. [...]

In the movies, this all goes very differently. In Hollywood's version of events, the federal government had been building a secret bunker in the limestone cliffs of Missouri to house [...]

WASHINGTON, D.C. -- The following information was released by the Environmental Defense Fund (EDF): The Trump administration today declined to add the monarch butterfly to the endangered species list after [...]

MONTREAL, Quebec, Canada -- The following information was released by McGill University: It's known that the primary cause of the mass extinction of dinosaurs, about 66 million years ago, was [...]

Byline: Tommy Clift The sixth mass extinction David Attenborough chronicles his findings in this Netflix Documentary. Photo courtesy of Netflix When the Apollo 8 mission first launched, David Attenborough, an [...]

Byline: Alaa Elassar, CNN (CNN) -- Scientists have found the Voeltzkow's chameleon in its natural habitat in northwestern Madagascar, the first time the species were rediscovered in over a century. [...]

Byline: BROOKS HAYS During their 150 million-year existence, pterodactyls and other winged reptiles known as pterosaurs steadily improved their flying abilities. According to a paper published Wednesday in the journal [...]

Athens, Ohio -- The following information was released by Ohio University: Author: Rachael Beardsley Rachel Martin, '20 is one of 10 people worldwide chosen for a fellowship with Conservation X [...]

MYSTIC, CONNECTICUT -- The following information was released by the American Humane Association: American Humane is pleased to note that Mystic Aquarium, an American Humane Certified institution, can be seen [...]

UNIVERSITY PARK, Pa -- The following information was released by Pennsylvania State University - University Park: Traces of burned organic material are found in the global geologic record of the [...]

The constant, disastrous news of global environmental catastrophe -- wildfires, mass extinctions, sea level rise, droughts, famines, unprecedented refugee migrations and more -- can work diligently against our hope for [...]

ROCKVILLE, MD -- The following information was released by the American Society for Biochemistry and Molecular Biology (ASBMB): By John Arnst October 08, 2020 Sixty-six million years ago, primitive animals [...]

ALEXANDRIA, Va. -- The following information was released by the National Science Foundation (NSF): Two groups of tiny, delicate marine organisms -- sea butterflies and sea angels -- were surprisingly [...]

BEIJING, September 28, 2020 (Xinhua via COMTEX) -- Researchers from China and Britain have found evidence of a new mass extinction event which allowed dinosaurs to dominate the earth, Science [...]

Byline: Katie Hunt, CNN (CNN) -- The asteroid strike that doomed the dinosaurs is an event that many people are aware of. It wiped out more than three-quarters of all [...]

Byline: Simon Wagner With some of the biggest set pieces and action sequences since the 'Mission: Impossible' franchise, Christopher Nolan conjures up yet another brilliant epic to add to his [...]

London: Climate Markets and Investment Association has issued the following press release: From these cooler years of the early 21st century, we look to a bleak future. A future where [...]

Byline: Ashley Strickland, CNN (CNN) -- Simultaneous explosions of stars, called supernovae, may have led to one of Earth's mass extinctions 359 million years ago, according to new research. Several [...]

LAWRENCE, KS -- The following information was released by the University of Kansas: Between a decline in biodiversity and a series of extinction events, the Late Devonian period was not [...]

Byline: BROOKS HAYS New research suggests harmful cosmic rays from a nearby supernova might have caused the extinction events that form the boundary between the Devonian-Carboniferous periods. Around 360 million [...]

EUGENE, Ore. -- The following information was released by the University of Oregon: Ancient volcanic fissures in the Columbia River flood basalts, exposed by uplifting and erosion, are helping University [...]

Byline: SOMMER BROKAW Researchers said Tuesday that organisms in the ocean's abyss were able to recover quickly after the end-Cretaceous mass extinction event which killed off dinosaurs 66 million years [...]

CAMBRIDGE, UK -- The following information was released by the BirdLife International: Our most ambitious campaign ever aims to fundamentally transform humanity's relationship with nature ù for the benefit of [...]

Byline: ANNIE MARTIN STX Entertainment is giving a glimpse of the new film Greenland. The studio shared a first trailer for the disaster thriller Thursday featuring Gerard Butler as John [...]

Beaverton, OR: Oregon Society of CPAs has issued the following press release: It is almost certain there will be fewer independent advisory firms in the next 36 months than there [...]

Byline: BROOKS HAYS Scientists still aren't sure what exactly caused 70 percent of land species to disappear some 252 million years ago, but new research suggests the extinctions -- part [...]

ST. LOUIS, MO -- The following information was released by Washington University in St. Louis: Mankind is the problem, and we appear to be hastily destroying life around us, says [...]

Bristol: Business Money Promotions Ltd has issued the following news release: Office of National Statistics (ONS) retail sales estimates for April will result in the extinction of many much-loved stores, [...]

Byline: BROOKS HAYS Some early ichthyosaurs used rounded, pebble-like teeth to crush the shells of snails and clam-like bivalves, according to new research. Roughly 252 million years ago, the end-Permian [...]

KYIV, Ukraine -- The following information was released by the U.S.-Ukraine Business Council (USUBC): Dear Fellow U.S.-Ukraine Business Council (USUBC) Members: I offer a heartfelt thanks to Morgan Williams, our [...]

BEIJING, China -- The following information was released by the Chinese Academy of Sciences: In the Cretaceous mass extinction 65 million years ago, evergreen plants started to decline and died [...]

BEIJING, April 28, 2020 (Xinhua via COMTEX) -- Chinese scientists have revealed that the evolution of diet may have helped birds survive the Cretaceous mass extinction of species, according to [...]

NANJING, April 26, 2020 (Xinhua via COMTEX) -- A significant lack of oxygen may be the cause of the largest mass extinctions of marine life in Earth's history some 252 [...]

Byline: Ashley Strickland, CNN (CNN) -- Across Earth's five known mass extinction events, intriguing life has occasionally reappeared and thrived in the wake of disaster. Now, researchers have discovered the [...]

Byline: Eva Botkin-Kowacki Staff writer Abstract: A 66-million-year-old fossil could help explain why some species survived the extinction event that wiped out the dinosaurs. When Daniel Field first saw it, [...]

'The current insect extinction crisis is deeply worrying,' said Pedro Cardoso, a biologist at the Finnish Museum of Natural History and lead author of a review study. 'Yet, what we [...]