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Ongoing overkill: loss of big herbivores leading to ’empty landscapes’

Jeremy Hance 1 May 2015

Empty seas? Scientists warn of an industrialized ocean

Jeremy Hance 15 Jan 2015

To collect or not to collect? Experts debate the need for specimens

Mrinalini Erkenswick Watsa 10 Dec 2014

Egyptian art helps chart past extinctions of big mammals

Kim Smuga-Otto 1 Dec 2014

It only took 2,500 people to kill off the world’s biggest birds

Jeremy Hance 10 Nov 2014

Pet trade likely responsible for killer salamander fungus

Jeremy Hance 30 Oct 2014

The Search for Lost Frogs: one of conservation’s most exciting expeditions comes to life in new book

Jeremy Hance 30 Oct 2014

How do we save the world’s vanishing old-growth forests?

Jeremy Hance 26 Aug 2014

Why conservationists need a little hope: saving themselves from becoming the most depressing scientists on the planet

Jeremy Hance 19 Aug 2014

13 newly-discovered birds declared extinct

Jeremy Hance 18 Aug 2014

It’s not just extinction: meet defaunation

Jeremy Hance 24 Jul 2014

Only 15 percent of world’s biodiversity hotspots left intact

Jeremy Hance 14 Jul 2014

Unrelenting population growth driving global warming, mass extinction

Jeremy Hance 26 Jun 2014

Extinction rates are 1,000x the background rate, but it’s not all gloomy

Jeremy Hance 29 May 2014

The quiet zoo revolution

Jeremy Hance 19 May 2014

Apocalypse now? Climate change already damaging agriculture, acidifying seas, and worsening extreme weather

Jeremy Hance 31 Mar 2014

Blame humans: new research proves people killed off New Zealand’s giant birds

Jeremy Hance 17 Mar 2014

Lost Animals: Extinction and the Photographic Record – book review

Gabriel Thoumi 4 Mar 2014

The lemur end-game: scientists propose ambitious plan to save the world’s most imperiled mammal family

Jeremy Hance 20 Feb 2014

Next big idea in forest conservation? Connecting forest fragments

Dr Liz Kimbrough 31 Jan 2014

Featured video: what would a world without wildlife look like?

Jeremy Hance 20 Dec 2013

Governments should respond to ocean acidification ‘as urgently as they do to national security threats’

Fiona Harvey 3 Oct 2013

‘Ecological Armageddon’: mammals vanish entirely from forest fragments after 25 years

Jeremy Hance 26 Sep 2013

Climate change could kill off Andean cloud forests, home to thousands of species found nowhere else

Jeremy Hance 18 Sep 2013

Forest fragmentation leading to higher extinction rates

Jeremy Hance 13 Aug 2013

Nutrient deficiency in Amazon rainforest linked to megafauna extinction

Jeremy Hance 12 Aug 2013

Climate could warm more rapidly than any time in the last 65 million years

Jeremy Hance 1 Aug 2013

Over 700 species added to the threatened categories on the IUCN Red List (photos)

Jeremy Hance 2 Jul 2013

Over 500 scientists warn we ‘are causing alarming levels of harm to our planet’

Jeremy Hance 27 May 2013

Biosphere conservation: monumental action is critical to avert global environmental crisis

David Olson 20 May 2013

Future generations to pay for our mistakes: biodiversity loss doesn’t appear for decades

Jeremy Hance 15 Apr 2013

Humans killed over 10 percent of the world’s bird species when they colonized the Pacific Islands

Jeremy Hance 25 Mar 2013

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