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

The reverse side of the coin depicts an image of the capercaillie which is found in a small part of Scotland and threatened with extinction.

From BBC ● Aug. 24, 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

Obama made clear that these were temporary emergency measures to save companies that faced extinction, and that the government would sell off its stock holdings as soon as that was practicable.

From Los Angeles Times ● Aug. 11, 2026

And what the scorching, searing, freezing, poisoning weapons of non-life have failed to do may be accomplished to the end of its destruction and extinction by the tactics of survival gone sour.

From "Travels with Charley in Search of America" by John Steinbeck

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

"And remember," added Anderson, "this was a relatively minor event. Do you know how many extinctions were associated with the Manson impact?"

From "A Short History of Nearly Everything" by Bill Bryson