Almost a quarter of freshwater creatures, from fish to dragonflies, are at a high risk of extinction worldwide, scientists have warned. The global assessment of freshwater animals on the ...

The study found that among the freshwater animals they studied, 30% of decapods, which include crabs, crayfishes and shrimps, are at the highest risk of extinction, followed by 26% of freshwater ...

Nearly a quarter of the world's freshwater species are at risk of extinction, according to new research. A detailed extinction assessment of more than 23,000 species of freshwater fauna by the ...

According to a study published in Nature magazine, a quarter of freshwater animals are at risk of extinction. To establish this, researchers analyzed public data as well as the scientific work of ...

About 24 per cent of the species studied were at high risk of extinction, meaning that they were critically endangered, endangered, vulnerable or already thought to be extinct in the wild ...