With an estimated less than 10 individuals alive, the vaquita porpoise of the Gulf of California is on the brink of ...
Around 1765, Chinese emperor and poet Qianlong was sailing on the Yangtze River toward the eastern city of Zhenjiang when he encountered a breathtaking sight: a group of what we now call Yangtze ...
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New research identifies 10,443 critically endangered species worldwide, with effective protection strategies available if funding and political will follow. More than 1,500 species, or 15% of the ...
More than 47,000 species face extinction today, a figure that grows daily as habitats shrink and human pressures intensify. Among them, twelve species teeter so precariously on the edge that their ...
(CNN) — A research team in China got creative in its efforts to save a critically endangered species by turning to ancient poems. The scientists pored over more than 700 ancient Chinese poems from the ...