Confirmed Extinctions in 2025 According to the 2025 IUCN Red List update, at least six animal species were moved into the Extinct category this year—meaning there is no reasonable doubt that the last ...

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Climate change may soon cause a catastrophic loss of global biodiversity. For decades, tropical species have widely been considered more vulnerable than temperate species. However, some studies have ...

Poorly documented species extinctions (‘dark extinctions’) are absent from the International Union for Conservation of Nature Red List — the ‘gold standard’ for assessing extinction risks. This ...