Biodiversity

New species are continually emerging from the ocean depths, comprehensive record of biodiversity reveals.

Symbiotic bacteria may help frogs and other amphibians ward off the chytrid fungus plague wiping out populations worldwide

With global biodiversity continuing to decline, conservationists have started paying people to leave forests, watersheds and wildlife intact

Nations agree on way to keep watch on Earth's health.

Did mammoths vanish before, during and after humans arrived?

A new approach to probe ancient regions of the genome suggests early human populations were scarce

An analysis of the fossil record shows that coral reefs are most often responsible for the diversity of sea life

Overhunting by Clovis people over centuries, not a catastrophic impact, may have wiped out North American mammoths and other megafauna, researchers say

Chance disaster as a bigger extinction threat than once thought

Habitat loss, hunting and other threats are driving our closest animal relatives to the brink

Noise from human activity threatens an animal's reproductive success