In antiquity and now, inconsistency and illogicality lie at the heart of the human effort to imagine what happens when we’re dead ...

It’s a scene that even Dot Cotton and her reliable tea leaves couldn’t have predicted. The cast and crew of EastEnders will ...

In a landmark shift, a new study has found that climate change is now the most pervasive human-caused threat to imperiled ...

The dire wolf is back — at least according to the company that made headlines earlier this month for the world’s first ...

Australia’s giant Protemnodon kangaroos didn’t die out everywhere at the same time. Instead, extinction proceeded one habitat ...

Chinese scientists have discovered that fragile swamp forests in the Pearl River Delta (PRD) region suddenly collapsed ...

Wolf conservationists say the truly dire matter is protecting America’s wild gray wolves — but that’s not as cute and cuddly ...

Scientists warn that human-driven species loss is accelerating, with entire branches of life vanishing at unprecedented rates ...

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.

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Bill Gates, the philanthropist and global issues expert, frequently shares his reading list to help others make sense of the ...

A groundbreaking new study has revealed that apparently 930,000 years ago, our ancestors were down to an astonishingly small ...