Many experts have concluded the planet is in the midst of a mass extinction event — during which large numbers of plant and ...

Extinction rates have slowed across many plant and animal groups, despite claims that the planet is experiencing another ...

Unlike previous mass extinctions caused by natural events such as asteroid collisions, volcanic activity, and climate change, ...

Prominent research studies have suggested that our planet is currently experiencing another mass extinction, based on ...

For years, headlines have warned that Earth is entering its sixth mass extinction, but a new study suggests these fears may ...

Extinction rates are not spiraling upward as many believe, according to a large-scale study analyzing 500 years of data.

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

Study warns that humans may be driving Earth toward a sixth mass extinction. The research shows species loss, but the future ...

Could we be on the verge of the sixth mass extinction? To better understand what’s to come for life on Earth–and the current harm we’re doing to our own environment–we have to look into the past. But, ...

A fire-bellied newt (Cynops ensicauda) photographed on Amami Island (Japan). A recent study suggested that the extinction of this and other genera was part of a mass extinction event that threatens ...

Mass extinction : a general view / Ashraf M.T. Elewa -- Late Ordovician mass extinction / Ashraf M.T. Elewa -- The end Ordovician : an ice age in the middle of a greenhouse / Curtis R. Congreve -- ...

The aerial photograph on the left shows the Transamazonian highway just after completion. The satellite photograph on the right shows a much larger area, revealing the wake of destruction fanning out ...