Tag: Species

In a sweeping global analysis encompassing thousands of animal and plant species, a concerning trend has emerged: species across the board are shrinking in size. Researchers have pinpointed this phenomenon most prominently in fish, which are undergoing significant reductions in size.

Over 37,000 alien species have been introduced by humans around the world and the threat posed by these invasive alien species are underappreciated, according to a groundbreaking report by the Intergovernmental Platform on Biodiversity and Ecosystem Services (IPBES).

Humans have emerged as the planet’s most extraordinary predator, doing things that other predators do not, killing or capturing for reasons other than feeding themselves, according to study by the UK Centre for Ecology & Hydrology (UKCEH) and the University of Victoria in Canada.

In a study that is quite alarming, researchers noted that almost half of all life on Earth is “declining towards extinction, putting human wellbeing under increasing threat”.

Animals across the world are contaminated with hazardous forever chemicals or widely known as polyfluoroalkyl substances (PFAS) on every continent except Antarctica,...

Majority of marine species is likely to lose considerable amounts of their present habitat ranges by the end of this century if...

The depths of oceans are still a mystery and holds species that are yet to be discovered. For the researchers, it is...

Birds in the United States are declining overall in their habitats of forests, grasslands, deserts and oceans, while they are better thriving...

The number of threatened species is much higher than reflected in the International Union for Conservation of Nature (IUCN) Red List and...

Around one in three freshwater species are estimated to be at risk of extinction, according to a new report published by the...