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Loss of large animals in Europe is entirely due to people, not climate

5 July 2023

Population models suggest there would be even more megafauna in Europe now than 130,000 years ago if it weren't for modern humans

Both species of African elephants are now officially endangered

25 March 2021

Poachers have brought Africa’s two elephant species to the brink of extinction, with the continent’s two species today classified as endangered by the IUCN Red List

Extinction denialism is a worrying new anti-science movement

10 March 2021

There are a growing number of people who deny the threats that many species face. It is a worrying trend, writes Graham Lawton

Greenland review: A great comet disaster movie on Amazon Prime

4 February 2021

Starring Gerard Butler, Greenland is a spectacular blockbuster about a comet heading for Earth with sci-fi, domestic drama and bleak realism

Almost all lemur species are now officially endangered

9 July 2020

Verreaux’s sifaka was once a common lemur species across the south of Madagascar, but is now listed as critically endangered, the last classification before extinction

Photographer documents the fight to save pangolins from extinction

3 June 2020

Pangolins are the most illegally trafficked mammal. This image from a new photographic series features the efforts by conservationists to halt their decline before the creatures go extinct

All five of Earth's largest mass extinctions linked to global warming

22 May 2020

There have been five particularly large extinction events in Earth’s history, and for the first time all of them have been linked to global warming

UK scientists join the Extinction Rebellion climate change protests

7 October 2019

New Scientist spoke to members of Extinction Rebellion who are scientists to find out why they are taking to the streets of London to protest climate change inaction