"The pace of change we’re seeing today is unlike anything we know of in the past 66 million years," said ecologist Jack ...

Human activity may be triggering the greatest extinction event since the asteroid impact that wiped out the dinosaurs, ...

Scientists debate whether current extinction rates mark a planet-wide crisis or reflect a more nuanced reality, highlighting ...

Humans have wiped out hundreds of species — with many more on the brink or experiencing large declines in population. Some scientists have argued that we have entered a “sixth mass extinction” event ...

You’ve heard it before: we’re well into the sixth mass extinction of life on earth. Only this time, unlike the other five big ones, humans are overwhelmingly the killers responsible. As we continue to ...

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The constant deluge of bad news about rising global temperatures and their impacts can make it feel like the world is ending. Is it? reading time 8 minutes If a 60-mile-wide (100-kilometer-wide) ...

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