Next best actions are selling your car, avoiding flights and going vegetarian, according to study into true impacts of different green lifestyle choices.

The strong focus on species extinctions, a critical aspect of the contemporary pulse of biological extinction, leads to a common misimpression that Earth's biota is not immediately threatened, just slowly entering an episode of major biodiversity loss. This view overlooks the current trends of population declines and extinctions.

Using a sample of 27,600 terrestrial vertebrate species, and a more detailed analysis of 177 mammal species, we show the extremely high degree of population decay in vertebrates, even in common "species of low concern". Dwindling population sizes and range shrinkages amount to a massive anthropogenic erosion of biodiversity and of the ecosystem services essential to civilization. This "biological annihilation" underlines the seriousness for humanity of Earth's ongoing sixth mass extinction event.

Researchers talk of "biological annihilation" as study reveals billions of populations of animals have been lost in recent decades.

Six of the secretive cats could be released in Northumberland's Kielder forest if an application by the Lynx UK Trust is approved.

Scientists are turning a cranberry bog back into coastal wetland. The experiment is seen as a path for dormant bogs and another chance for vanishing habitat.

The most extensive study to date on neonicotinoid pesticides concludes that they harm both honeybees and wild bees.

Data reveals there are 150 to 180 animals in Finland, where government awards licences to hunt them.