(Natural News) Despite being constantly portrayed as such in popular media, not all extinction events involve the apocalyptic and instantaneous dying off of complex creatures such as the dinosaurs and other prehistoric beasts – some of them are more gradual and happen over longer periods of time and deal with creatures that are on the […]

(Natural News) Sea turtles around the globe are either endangered or threatened. Florida alone is home to five species of endangered sea turtles, and all of them are afforded some form of local or international protection. Despite this, sea turtles continue to face a serious and emerging threat: plastic pollution. In a recent report, scientists and […]

(Natural News) A lower landscape resilience forebodes a major extinction event across North American land biomes, found a study published in the journal Global Change Biology. Researchers from the Georgia Institute of Technology looked at 12 major plant biomes in North America to measure their landscape resilience – the ability of a certain habitat to persist and recover from environmental disturbances. They found that only 64 […]

(Natural News) Fewer birds are crooning North America today. A recent study published in the journal Science found that the region’s bird populations declined in the last 49 years. Researchers from the United States and Canada joined forces to understand how bird populations changed across North America. They looked at existing data chronicling birdlife and found that common bird […]

(Natural News) Sediment cores taken from White Pond in South Carolina show that an extraterrestrial collision may have triggered an abrupt change in the Earth’s climate 12,800 years ago, said archaeologist Christopher Moore of the University of South Carolina.  About 14,500 years ago, Earth’s climate began to shift from glacial to interglacial, characterized by warmer temperatures. However, partway […]

(Natural News) Sharks are often depicted as terrifying creatures, but according to a study conducted by researchers from the international conservation charity Zoological Society of London (ZSL), these underwater predators are in danger from an even bigger threat: Human activity. Sharks and the dangers of industrial fishing Findings from the study, which were published in PLOS […]

(Natural News) Sandalwood is on the brink of extinction. It is one of the most trafficked trees due to its wood and fragrant oil. In fact, one variety known as the Chile sandalwood is already extinct. The sandalwood population is vulnerable due to over-harvesting, according to journalist Alexandra Engler. But given conservation efforts and current ethical harvesting […]

(Natural News) Impacts from near-Earth objects (NEO) have caused some of the biggest mass extinction events ever experienced by Earth. Now, an international team has come together for an exercise to track one such NEO and assess the threat it posed while demonstrating how experts from around the world can come together in response to such […]

(Natural News) There’s a reason why people “go bananas” and not any other fruit. It’s one of the most widely consumed fruits in the world — humans consume 100 billion bananas every year — and the most commonly referenced fruit in music. Because bananas are a fruit that so many people enjoy, it’s now in […]

(Natural News) Nothing epitomizes a warm, sunny day like the sound of bees buzzing peacefully from plant to plant in the garden. These little creatures do far more than provide us with delicious honey, however. Without bees and other pollinators, humans and other animals would cease to exist on our planet. The renowned poet Maurice […]