SYDNEY, Jan. 30 (Xinhua) -- An Australian-led international research has found that genetic diversity in plants and animals has declined over the past three decades.

Humans are causing enormous damage to the Earth, and about 1 million plant and animal species are now at risk of extinction.

A number of animals, plants and an entire ecosystem were added to Australia's extinction watch list in 2024. We look at the ...

Australia is home to some of the most rare animals in the world, with nearly 80% of plants, mammals, reptiles, and frogs ...

It’s also a problem for Australia’s unique and vulnerable biodiversity. Biodiversity monitoring involves looking for a plant or animal species, or traces of it, and recording what was found ...

At least half a billion animals and countless trees ... combined with the unprecedented drought in many parts of Australia, are likely to cause high plant mortality. "We may see local extinctions ...

This dwarfs the current official estimate of the total number of extinctions across all plant and animal species in Australia: 100. The extinction of so many invertebrate species is not an arcane ...

There are 742 endangered Australian plants and animals on the International Union for Conservation of Nature's Red List of threatened species, which grew by six species in the past year.

Native plant suppliers are reporting a downturn in sales to farms for revegetation projects after historically low rainfall ...