The updated European Red List of Freshwater Fishes – the most comprehensive assessment in 15 years – reveals little evidence of species recovery and calls for urgent action to protect Europe’s aquatic ...

One of the Antarctic’s most well-known and beloved animals is at the brink of extinction, and environmentalists are calling ...

In 1902, British explorer Robert Falcon Scott spotted a large group of large black and white birds at Ross Island, Antarctica ...

Two of Antarctica's most iconic animals are officially considered Endangered. They join a lengthy list of over 48,600 plant ...

A new report led by Conservation International and IUCN, published today in Oryx, warns that over 40% of more than 8,500 soil ...

While conservation efforts have bolstered the populations of many species considered to be threatened in 2025, many animal and plant species continue to dwindle in number, with some even going extinct ...

One of the biggest bombshells of this update is that the IUCN declared emperor penguins as an endangered species. The group ...

Populations are declining as climate change causes the sea ice the birds need for survival to retreat, according to ...

New research finds that one in five assessed soil‑dependent species is threatened with extinction on The IUCN Red List of Threatened Species™.

Arctic seals are being pushed closer to extinction by the climate crisis, while more than half of the world's bird species are in decline due to deforestation and agricultural expansion, a new ...

With their numbers rapidly declining, scientists say emperor penguin extinction risk is growing and by the end of the century ...

The emperor penguin and Antarctic fur seal are now both Endangered, according to The IUCN Red List of Threatened Species™.