Bern, Jan 2 (Prensa Latina) Climate change threatens a growing number of species, from freshwater fishes to Atlantic salmon and green turtles, according to the IUCN Red List of Threatened Species released today at COP28. The IUCN Red List now includes 157,190 species, of which 44,016 are threatened with extinction.
A new assessment has found that 25 percent of freshwater fish are at risk for extinction due to climate change and pollution. The latest update to the International Union for Conservation of Nature’s (IUCN) Red List of Threatened Species was published Monday and included the first-ever global assessment of freshwater fish. It found that 3,086 out of…
Hundreds of thousands of European bison once grazed the grassy slopes from Spain to Ukraine until they gradually went extinct in the wild by 1927. But when the last free-roaming individual was shot, that wasn’t the end of the story for the species. Fifty-four bison remained in captivity, and from this small group a […]