TEHRAN, August 6 -Only two female northern white rhinoceroses are left, prompting Merck -- a science and technology company working with the BioRescue Project -- to offer assisted reproductive technologies to save the species from extinction.
TEHRAN, Jun 18 -Growing global demands for food and agricultural commodities are driving deforestation across the neotropics -- in Africa, as well as south and southeast Asia.
TEHRAN, Jun 1- To better understand the decline of Neanderthals, researchers in France developed a population model and used simulations to determine which demographic factors had the largest effect on Neanderthal numbers.
TEHRAN, May 07 -The "unprecedented" loss of biodiversity around the globe is a growing threat to humans, according to a first-of-its-kind report by the United Nations.
TEHRAN, May 06 -Relentless pursuit of economic growth, twinned with the impact of climate change, has put an "unprecedented" one million species at risk of extinction, scientists say in a landmark report on the damage done by modern civilization to the natural world.
TEHRAN, April 16, YJC - There are now more pandas in zoos around the world than ever before. Thanks to developments in artificial insemination, captive panda populations have grown to more than 450.