Extinction can be a hard reality to confront. It’s one thing to learn about animals like the woolly mammoth or the dodo, ...

We humans like to think we’re special in basically all ways, but if the history of life is any indication, our species has a limited time on this planet. So the question is: when are we gonna go ...

Uncover the critical effects of habitat loss on biodiversity. This in-depth analysis provides insights into the consequences for species and ecosystems alike.

Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. Humans will likely go extinct eventually, leaving behind a planet that has to adjust in their wake. While there is no true ...

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 ...

UN scientists reveal the world's climate is more out of balance than ever before, as meteorology expert Jim Dale warns humans ...

A poignant recounting of the tangled and unnatural histories of extinction and empire, and how extinction is not necessarily inevitable but instead, is a political choice. One of the most famous and ...

Constantly improving AI would create a positive feedback loop: an intelligence explosion. We would be no match for it.

Humans are pretty good at destroying things. Like habitats, animal populations... you catch my drift. But, there have been a few species that humans have helped bring back from the brink of extinction ...

We may not be living through Earth’s sixth mass extinction event ­­— at least not yet. That’s the conclusion of a new analysis of plant and animal extinctions published September 4 in PLOS Biology.