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 ...

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 ...

CINCINNATI (WKRC) - Earth's atmosphere, which is currently rich in oxygen, is predicted to undergo a drastic shift that could lead to the extinction of most life forms, including humans, scientists ...

(CNN) — Humans have wiped out hundreds of species — with many more on the brink or experiencing large declines in population. Some scientists have argued that we have entered a “sixth mass extinction” ...

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 ...

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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 ...

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