Researchers in Canada are using artificial intelligence to monitor the ongoing mass extinction of insects, hoping to collect data that can help reverse species collapse and avert catastrophe for the ...

With just 1.2% of the world’s one million described insect species assessed for extinction risk, biodiversity assessment and conservation measures remain severely constrained. Sufficiently extensive ...

Forbes contributors publish independent expert analyses and insights. I write about biodiversity and the hidden quirks of the natural world. The Lord Howe stick insect (Dryococelus australis) was ...

They're known for their bright flashes of light and creating some dazzling displays at night, but the light of the fireflies could soon be going out as the insect faces extinction. While researchers ...

About 20 million species of insects inhabit all over the world are known as of 2018 and account for more than half of the identified species. However, it has become clear in a survey of insect ...

The world is headed towards its sixth mass extinction, with one third of the insect population at risk of dying out within the next ten years, according to a scientific review.