Climate change: if warming approaches 2°C, a trickle of extinctions will become a flood: The devastation wrought on tropical coral reefs will soon visit other ecosystems. Acro_Phuket/Shutterstock As delegates discuss the climate crisis in Dubai for COP28, the dazzling variety of life found on Earth hangs in the balance. Our world has warmed by roughly …
As mass extinctions loom, these philosophers could help us rediscover our place among other animals: Katoosha/Shutterstock Children think that pigs are as deserving of kindness as dogs and cats, and as readily condemn cruelty to hamsters as cruelty to other children, a recent study has shown. The moral hierarchy of animals – with humans at …
Flightless birds were more common before human-driven extinctions – new study: Survivor: the flightless takah? was once thought extinct, before being 'rediscovered' in a remote valley in New Zealand. Sheryl Watson / shutterstock When the first humans started to colonise all the regions of the world, many species went extinct. Some were directly hunted to extinction, …
Humans are not off the hook for extinctions of large herbivores – then or now: Hippos at Gorongosa National Park. Brett Kuxhausen, Author provided, Author provided What triggered the decline and eventual extinction of many megaherbivores, the giant plant-eating mammals that roamed the Earth millions of years ago, has long been a mystery. These animals, …