extinction

It all adds up to a remarkable celebration of the life of letters—a life that’s greatly endangered today but saved from extinction, one hopes, by books like this one.

From The Wall Street Journal ● Aug. 28, 2026

Once hunted to near extinction, the rebound of humpback whales is considered among the conservation movement's greatest success stories.

From Barron's ● Aug. 18, 2026

That major shift in distribution, combined with the extinction of S. labreae, adds another piece to the complex history of environmental change as the last Ice Age came to an end.

From Science Daily ● Aug. 16, 2026

Thus the California grizzly joined the passenger pigeon, the most populous bird on earth, on the extinction list.

From Los Angeles Times ● Aug. 13, 2026

One scientist believes they might someday starve whales to extinction.

From "The Thing About Jellyfish" by Ali Benjamin

The Australian government's official extinctions list sits at 67, but researchers are confident at least 100 plant and animal species have been lost forever.

From BBC ● Aug. 8, 2026

Many of the culprits then were the same as those still driving extinctions across the nation today.

From BBC ● Aug. 8, 2026

It may also have contributed to mass extinctions by changing ocean chemistry, climate, and the amount of oxygen available in seawater.

From Science Daily ● Jul. 18, 2026

"Our findings show that, across different organism groups, extinctions happened at much higher rates for those more vulnerable to increases in water temperature and decreases in oxygen availability."

From Science Daily ● Jul. 12, 2026

These extinctions were much more severe in Australia and the Americas than in Eurasia or Africa.

From "Guns, Germs, and Steel: The Fates of Human Societies" by Jared M. Diamond