In the age of the Anthropocene, language extinction is happening faster than species extinction.

We tend to look for external factors, like falling asteroids, to explain species extinction.

This is likely to have catastrophic consequences including substantial species extinction and global food scarcity risks.

The animal rights movement, concerns about species extinction, and climate change have affected our perspective, at least a little.

It said that could cause ocean acidification, the loss of coral reefs, rising sea levels and widespread species extinction.

The Day of the Triffids allows debate on all sorts of contemporary issues, from species extinction to GM crops.

In terms of biodiversity, the OECD said species extinction rates in New Zealand were among the highest in the world.

From climate change to species extinction, environmental campaigns are losing battles against an increasing thirst for global growth and consumption.

This response highlights the possibility for climate-induced trophic cascades, driven by altered size structure of populations, rather than species extinction.

Is species extinction unimportant?

WE ARE living through a massive species extinction event that rivals the one that wiped out the dinosaurs 65 million years ago.

Otago University's Dr Matthew Clarkson says ocean acidification triggered massive species extinction: a wake up call to the perils of a changing climate today.

The authors equate language extinction with species extinction, and identify certain areas of the world that are especially rich in "biolinguistic diversity."... View Article

Worldwide, species extinction rates are between 100 and 1,000 times the natural rate, the European Commission said in its latest biodiversity strategy.

Do not get me wrong, I am not denying that species extinctions are occurring.

The panel said cuts could help avert droughts, heatwaves, species extinctions and rising sea levels.