The near-extinction of India’s vultures due to diclofenac poisoning triggered an ecological and public health crisis. As ...

The climate and early human societies were changing quickly during the fall of our closest evolutionary relative—and are big ...

This video focuses on the most existential threat posed by climate change - the damage it is doing to the biosphere, causing a new mass extinction. Humans are causing the sixth mass extinction in ...

Human activity—causing land use change, global warming, and pollution—are driving heightened extinction rates and population declines across many taxa. Some scientists argue we’re currently facing a ...

The human race stands at a critical juncture, where its unchecked expansion and relentless exploitation of the natural world ...

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.

A new study reveals that a region in China’s Turpan-Hami Basin served as a refugium, or “Life oasis” for terrestrial plants ...

It is widely accepted that we are currently witnessing the start of a sixth mass extinction. Humans are dramatic ecosystem engineers – irrevocably altering environments and habitats. Past ...

A region in China’s Turpan-Hami Basin served as a refugium - or “life oasis”- for terrestrial plants during the end-Permian ...

It is widely accepted that we are currently witnessing the start of a sixth mass extinction. Humans are dramatic ecosystem engineers – irrevocably altering environments and habitats. Past extinction ...