We need to come to terms that the Great Barrier Reef ecosystem and coral reef ecosystems globally as we know them, are facing extinction. ...

Leadbeater's Possum, also known as Victoria's fairy possum, is one of those species fighting for survival against the odds and agai...

Professor Ove Hoegh-Guldberg takes us through and explains a controlled experiment his Institute is conducting in coral reef ecosystem reac...

Sea surface temperatures around Australia in 2013 were unusually warm reported the Australian Bureau of Meteorology in it's annual clima...

Eighty two percent of native freshwater fish species in California, including salmon, are likely to become extinct on present trends within ...

While much scientific and public attention has focussed on the many species endangered or on the brink of extinction, the impacts of climat...

Lizards are again in the news as being under threat from climate change. No, not those two footed political lizards we call politicians, who...

The Centre for Biological Diversity reports that as a result of their 2008 petition, the US Federal Government has added Ringed seals and Be...

In a new study marine scientists warn that the rate of ocean acidification presently occurring is unprecedented in the last 300 million ye...

It looks like cold blooded species (ectotherms) in the tropics could be at an extreme risk of extinction with just moderate increases in te...

Scientists meeting at the University of Copenhagen have warned that biodiversity is declining rapidly throughout the world, describing the ...

While writing the article on Biodiversity crisis: Habitat loss and climate change causing 6th mass extinction I came across this film - Cal...

Two new scientific papers have emphasised the threat to biodiversity from the impacts of climate change and habitat loss. A study by US ecol...

A report issued last week from the International Programme on the State of the Ocean (IPSO) has strongly warned of the damage to the health ...

Early this year the African Penguin was redlisted by the International Union for the Conservation of Nature as in danger of extinction. In r...

"why don't the people get rid of the lizards?" said Arthur Dent. Well it seems the people are doing very well at getting rid ...

Anthropogenic climate change is driving Ocean Acidification threatening marine ecosystems, according to a new scientific paper. "This ...

Just finished watching The Acid Test: The Global Challenge of Ocean Acidification short documentary on Ocean Acidification produced by the ...

Scientiists from Bristol University say that ocean acidification is ocurring at a faster pace than anytime in the last 65 million years, rai...

Marine and climate scientists have called for at least a 25% cut in carbon emissions from developed countries like Australia to save the Gre...