(Natural News) Experts during a debate hosted by the Royal Geographical Society of London made two announcements regarding the nature of bees: one, that they are the most important living beings on the planet, and two, that they are at risk of extinction. As noted by the Earthwatch Institute during the debates, bees around the […]

(Natural News) The Court of Justice of the European Union (CJEU) on Oct. 8 upheld a 2018 French ban on neonicotinoids, a class of pesticides used in agricultural production that are notorious for causing mass bee deaths. The ruling is the latest development in a heated legal row between France and a French agricultural interest group […]

(Natural News) The ecosystems of around one-fifth of the world’s countries are at risk of collapsing because of the destruction of wildlife and their habitats. This is according to an analysis by insurance firm Swiss Re. According to the report, more than half of the world’s GDP – $42 trillion – depends on high-functioning biodiversity. However, the […]

(Natural News) The European Court of Justice on Oct. 8 has dismissed a case filed against France for banning certain neonicotinoids. The Luxembourg-based court ruled that the country sufficiently demonstrated an urgent need to curb a “serious risk to human or animal health or to the environment.” France had been in a heated legal battle against the French Crop […]

(Natural News) Researchers have determined that the nation’s farmland is now 48 times more toxic to insects than it was just 25 years ago, and much of this rise in toxicity is being blamed on the widespread use of a dangerous category of pesticides known as neonicotinoids. The study, which was published in the PLOS […]

(Natural News) Plants and fungi are crucial to sustaining life, providing food, medicine and biofuel. But around 40 percent or two-fifths of all plant species worldwide, including those first identified in 2019, could be facing extinction, according to a recent report from London’s Kew Gardens. The latest assessment, State of the World’s Plants and Fungi, draws upon […]

(Natural News) For decades, nothing has brought species closer to the brink of extinction like poaching and illegal trade. In a major breakthrough, a trio of ecologists found that people can purchase about 4,000 reptile species online, including the endangered speckled tortoise and the Seychelles tiger chameleon. The researchers came about this finding after scouring the […]

(Natural News) Despite being constantly portrayed as such in popular media, not all extinction events involve the apocalyptic and instantaneous dying off of complex creatures such as the dinosaurs and other prehistoric beasts – some of them are more gradual and happen over longer periods of time and deal with creatures that are on the […]

(Natural News) Sea turtles around the globe are either endangered or threatened. Florida alone is home to five species of endangered sea turtles, and all of them are afforded some form of local or international protection. Despite this, sea turtles continue to face a serious and emerging threat: plastic pollution. In a recent report, scientists and […]

(Natural News) A lower landscape resilience forebodes a major extinction event across North American land biomes, found a study published in the journal Global Change Biology. Researchers from the Georgia Institute of Technology looked at 12 major plant biomes in North America to measure their landscape resilience – the ability of a certain habitat to persist and recover from environmental disturbances. They found that only 64 […]