Human beings have been at the center of ecological change on Earth for thousands of years. But as history shows, no species ...

Mass extinction is not just a theory; Earth has already gone through five of them, including the event about 65 million years ...

Humans will likely go extinct eventually, leaving behind a planet that will have to adjust in their wake. While there is no true consensus as to what a human-free world will look like, there are a ...

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

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 ...

Almost half of the processes that are crucial to maintaining the stability of the planet have become dangerously compromised by human activity. That is the view of an international team of 18 ...