Of the 1.3 million known invertebrate species, the IUCN has evaluated about 9,526 species, with about 30 percent of the species evaluated at risk of extinction. Freshwater invertebrates are severely ...

Human activities have put as many as one million other species at risk of extinction, according to the first comprehensive United Nations report on global biodiversity. The report, a summary of ...

An analysis of research on most known species around the world finds climate change puts many species at risk of extinction, and the risk increases with more global warming.

Scientists know climate change will cause extinctions, but just how many species might disappear in a warmer world has been harder to pin down. A new study out today tries to estimate how much of ...

While there are other animals that eat green crabs, their population only fell in an area of Central California when the ...

If countries meet the shared goal of limiting warming to 1.5 degrees Celsius, 1.8% of species will be at risk of extinction by the ... have described roughly 2 million species, but that's likely ...

Nearly one-third of Earth’s species ... extinction by 2100. However, under current emissions trajectories, global temperatures are projected to rise by 4.9°F (2.7°C), putting 1 in 20 species ...

A new study projects just how bad things could get for biodiversity if global warming speeds up. NPR's Jonathan Lambert reports that under the most extreme warming scenarios, about one in three ...