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400-million-year-old organism grew 8 metres tall, confusing scientists for 165 years. It may belong to a lost branch of lifeA mysterious organism that grew up to 8 metres tall around 400 million years ago has puzzled scientists for more than 165 years. Known as P...- Beginning in 1974, North American conservationists released more than 6,000 captive-bred peregrine falcons; by the late 1990s, at least 1,650 breeding pairs had been restoredOnce teetering on the brink of extinction in North America due to harmful pesticides and loss of natural habitats, the peregrine falcons ha...
- Researchers can now tell when Earth's last plant will die; reveal the planet's surprising green futureResearch indicates that increasing solar brightness and atmospheric changes may threaten plant survival in billions of years. Scientists ha...
- Over 30,000 species face critical danger: Amazon's Jeff Bezos backs $500 million wildlife plan, but one key detail is missingLaunched at the UN Biodiversity Conference, the New Species Recovery Alliance has garnered a substantial pledge of $500 million. This colla...
- Whales survived brink of extinction in 19th and 20th centuries but then comes the biggest mystery yet to be solvedCarcasses have been washing ashore around the gulf city of Puerto Madryn, including near the central waterfront where they alarm residents ...
- Effective Altruism: the philosophy behind Silicon Valley's AI fearsDario Amodei says he is not part of it. To many in the Trump administration, it fuels unfounded and exaggerated fears about artificial inte...
- Why bringing back the woolly mammoth isn’t a simple cloning job — scientists are solving a massive genetic engineering puzzleColossal Biosciences is working to introduce woolly mammoth traits into Asian elephants through genetic modifications. Researchers are usin...
- AI researchers warn companies rushing self-improving systems despite safety risksIn video testimonials collected by AI safety nonprofit Palisade Research and shared exclusively with Reuters, employees said their concerns...
- AI set to wipe out humans? Andrew Ng breaks his silence on artificial intelligence doomsday warnings as tech leaders debate whether superintelligent machines could become uncontrollableAI pioneer Andrew Ng calls extinction warnings science fiction, not science. He urges industry focus on practical engineering and cybersecu...
- In 1826, mosquitoes arrived in Hawaii and pushed native birds toward extinction. Now, scientists are releasing millions of mosquitoes to save themHawaii's native birds face extinction due to avian malaria transmitted by mosquitoes. Conservationists are releasing sterile male mosquitoe...
- A future without oxygen: Scientists explain what Earth could look like in a billion years - hostile to complex life long before the Sun dies outEarth's breathable atmosphere is a temporary phenomenon, experts predict. Computer simulations show oxygen loss within one billion years, l...
- In 2002, crews removed rats from California’s Anacapa Island; 10 years later, rare seabirds were returning and the island’s ecosystem was recoveringAnacapa Island shows significant seabird recovery ten years after rat removal. Ashy storm-petrels now nest there, and Cassin's auklets have...
- The Wrigley family spent 56 years reshaping Catalina Island after buying it in 1919; in 1975, they gave 42,135 acres away to protect the California islandIn 1919, William Wrigley Jr. acquired the Santa Catalina Island Company, and his family dedicated the next 56 years to managing the island,...
- Their 3,500-acre farm was failing in England's West Sussex. Isabella Tree and Sir Charles Burrell stopped farming it, and 20 years later rare birds, butterflies and wildlife have returnedA struggling 3,500-acre farm in West Sussex took an unexpected turn when Isabella Tree and Sir Charles Burrell stopped conventional farming...
- In the 1980s, rare shells linked to Captain Cook were thrown into a university dumpster; 40 years later, the forgotten collection returned to England's heritage archivesRare shells linked to Captain James Cook nearly vanished in the 1980s. The collection was thrown into a university dumpster, apparently for...
- New warnings about the risks of AI to humanity revive a long-running debateThe CEO of Anthropic, the San Francisco company behind Claude, said he thought the industry needed to reduce the speed of its work, caution...
- ‘This looks exciting!’ AI whistleblower Jacob Coxon backs new coalition after warning people building AI fear it could kill humanityAI researchers are organizing to address existential risks from advanced artificial intelligence. Jacob Coxon, a former researcher, has bac...
- In the 1980s, conservationists protected gorilla habitat across 3 countries despite poaching and disease. 46 years later, about 1,000 mountain gorillas still survive in forestsMountain gorilla numbers are steadily increasing due to dedicated conservation efforts. These efforts have helped the species recover from ...
- In 2015, 200,000 saigas died in Kazakhstan's mass die-off. 10 years later, nearly 4 million now roam the vast steppe, turning one of the species' darkest chapters aroundKazakhstan has witnessed one of wildlife conservation’s most remarkable turnarounds. Saiga antelope numbers once collapsed by about 95% aft...
- In 1966, scientists wiped out almost every insect on tiny islands in Florida. Within days, wildlife began returningEcologists Daniel Simberloff and Edward O. Wilson conducted a groundbreaking experiment in 1966. They removed nearly all arthropods from ti...
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