Scientists sounded the alarm on the dire consequences of continued inaction at a briefing in London, warning that we could be heading for "unprecedented societal and ecological collapse"

Making asylum status temporary and eroding family rights will undermine Britain’s commitments to international law and create further divisions

The government is planning stricter than ever asylum policies, but what will this mean for child refugees?

The report comes from TÜV SÜD, a German auditing, inspection, and certification firm, and is based on data collected from about 9.5 million vehicle inspections.

Conservation prioritisation emphasises currently threatened species, but there are strong arguments for complementary, more proactive approaches based on forecasting future extinction risk for unthreatened species. Forecasting methods vary in the timescale of extinction risk estimation and include established methods such as Population Viability Analysis (PVA) and Early Warning Systems, and emerging ‘Over-the-Horizon’ (OTH) methods. We develop a framework that integrates extinction risk assessment across timescales and outlines tradeoffs between shorter- and longer-term extinction prevention goals. This framework facilitates use of extinction risk forecasting in decision-theoretic conservation prioritisation that explicitly considers alternative time horizons for extinction prevention. Considering extinction risk on extended timescales offers a future-proof approach to conservation planning that may prevent more extinctions than focusing exclusively on currently threatened species.

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Dutch writer Rutger Bregman says claim that Trump was ‘most openly corrupt president in US history’ was removed

ALT: a cartoon girl in a blue dress is kneeling in a field holding a bag

‘Severe lack’ in territory where Israeli strikes have killed more than 50 people and injured over 100 in recent days

Court papers show the island cautiously welcomed the oligarch – with London’s approval – before Russia’s invasion of Ukraine

Galina Rymbu, an activist living in Ukraine, responds to Zarah Sultana's recent remarks on support for Ukraine.

Exclusive: The Israeli government waged a decade-long campaign to protect its officials from criminal proceedings in Britain, leaked files show.