The narrative of life on Earth is marked by a continual ebb and flow, characterized by the emergence and extinction of ...

Around 66 million years ago, a six-mile-wide asteroid hit Earth, triggering the extinction of three-quarters of all living species. The age of dinosaurs, which had lasted 165 million years, ended ...

Earth's biodiversity is in crisis. An imminent "sixth mass extinction" threatens beloved and important wildlife. It also ...

Instead, he argues that we should aim to prevent human-induced extinction from hitting 0.2 per cent of species – a far cry from the 75 per cent needed to qualify for a mass extinction, and the ...

However, this sixth mass die-off is largely due to human activities, such as population growth, habitat destruction, pollution, and climate change. In their paper, Dirzo, Ceballos, and Stanford ...

The world is currently experiencing its sixth mass extinction, with potentially thousands of species lost every year. Bringing back woolly mammoths, dire wolves, and giant moa (or close approximations ...

Biodiversity is essential to mitigating and adapting to climate change, enhancing the resilience of ecosystems and ...

In the history of Earth, we have documented five major extinctions—cataclysmic events in which the majority of species die out due to some worldwide change—and are currently edging towards the sixth ...

A two-day Global Biodiversity Alliance Summit began in Guyana on Wednesday, with Guyana’s President Dr Irfaan Ali saying that ...

The West Texas desert has a surprising feature: a prehistoric ocean reef. There is a surprising natural wonder in the middle of the vast West Texas desert: a prehistoric ocean reef built from the ...