The idea that extreme climate change could one day cause a mass extinction and end the human dominance is not as farfetched ...

We can’t sugar coat it, the future of our planet looks pretty bleak – at least according to new predictions from scientists. In fact, an experiment conducted by a supercomputer has suggested that ...

Human activity may be triggering the greatest extinction event since the asteroid impact that wiped out the dinosaurs, according to scientists. Their study, based on a review of decades of research on ...

For eons, Earth has experienced dramatic shifts, punctuated by five catastrophic mass extinction events that wiped out vast swathes of life. Now, a growing chorus of scientists is sounding the alarm: ...

It troubles me deeply to hear about the massive wave of extinctions that scientists predict are coming if we don’t address the current human assault on our natural environment. I am wondering what we ...

Everyone knows that dinosaurs are extinct, and most people have some idea about how it might have occurred. But the exact periods in history when it happened are less well known. Was it a single ...

In fact, the last great extinction event in the history of life on Earth could be our fault. Human activities such as habitat destruction, pollution, climate change, and overexploitation of species ...

Pandemics and nuclear war are real, tangible concerns, more so than AI doom, at least to me, a scientist at the RAND Corporation. We do all kinds of research on national security issues and might be ...