New research finds extinction rates have been declining for a century, challenging assumptions of an ongoing mass extinction.

Right underneath our very noses, entire species are vanishing without a trace while we remain blissfully unaware of their demise or even of their existence in the first place. This phenomenon is ...

Extinction rates appear to have slowed since their peak in the early 1900s, suggesting not a reprieve for nature but a shift in how and where losses occur. Much of the damage was concentrated on ...