There is an ethical dimension to the sixth mass extinction that cannot be ignored. Humans have a moral obligation to protect the planet and its inhabitants. This responsibility extends beyond ...

Our planet’s first known mass extinction happened about 440 million years ago. Species diversity on Earth had been increasing over a period of roughly 30 million years, but that would come to a halt ...

As human beings have grown wealthier, they have come to care about environmental stewardship and gained the resources to act on their newfound compassion for wildlife.

The near-extinction of India’s vultures due to diclofenac poisoning triggered an ecological and public health crisis. As scavengers vanished, disease outbreaks surged, exposing the deep link between ...

Animals and humans have always coexisted. Before cities, nomadic hunter-gatherers depended on animals for food, transport, ...

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

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

Most people think of crocodilians as living fossils—stubbornly unchanged, prehistoric relics that have ruled the world's ...

Scientists from the Institute of Tibetan Plateau Research, Chinese Academy of Sciences (CAS) have compared several methods for plant diversity reconstruction using pollen data. By analyzing modern ...