Australia’s unique wildlife is facing an escalating extinction crisis, driven primarily by climate change and compounded by habitat loss. 34 new species of plants and animals have been added to the ...

The lemuroid ringtail possum is one of 34 species that have just been added to Australia's threatened species list.

Twenty-five plants (including a seaweed), five reptiles, one marsupial, a fish, an insect and a mollusc have been added to Australia's threatened ...

This article was published in Scientific American’s former blog network and reflects the views of the author, not necessarily those of Scientific American A ghost lives in the Daintree Rainforest in ...

Nineteen species have been added to Australia’s critically endangered list, including a wingless stonefly found in about four square kilometres of a Victorian mountain. In total, 34 species have been ...