The world around us is constantly changing, and with these changes come questions that challenge our understanding of life on Earth. One such question is ... Read more The post Are We Entering the ...

The near-extinction of India’s vultures due to diclofenac poisoning triggered an ecological and public health crisis. As ...

Our planet’s first known mass extinction happened about 440 million years ago. Species diversity on Earth had been increasing ...

We're in the midst of the Earth’s sixth mass extinction crisis ... and you can see why scientists refer to it as a crisis unparalleled in human history. The current mass extinction differs from all ...

Scientists created a version of the extinct dire wolf. But we should be directing our resources to preventing extinction in ...

The idea that extreme heat could one day cause a mass extinction and end the dominance of humans is not as farfetched as it ...

Human activity—causing land use change, global warming, and pollution—are driving heightened extinction rates and population declines across many taxa. Some scientists argue we’re currently facing a ...

Scientists from the Institute of Tibetan Plateau Research, Chinese Academy of Sciences (CAS) have compared several methods ...

Instead, it is chiefly the activities of an ever-growing human population, in concert with long-term environmental change. The typical rate of extinction differs for different groups of organisms.

While it seems like something out of House Stark in “Game of Thrones,” these dire wolves are real — living and breathing and ...

Human activity—causing land use change, global warming, and pollution—are driving heightened extinction rates and population declines across many taxa. Some scientists argue we’re currently facing a ...