The Earth has suffered five mass extinctions. Human activities are now accelerating climate change and the threat of the "Sixth Mass Extinction". We analyze the past to consider what we should do.

Climate change is now officially sending animals to extinction. The Bramble Cay melomys, a rodent found on a tiny island off Australia's far north coast and the only mammal native to the Great Barrier ...

It’s often assumed that lower birthrates could help slow climate change and A.I. disruption. The reality is more complex.

Vora is a practicing physician, senior adviser for One Health at Conservation International, and executive director of the Preventing Pandemics at the Source Coalition. Walzer is a wildlife ...

Kulpreet Singh's 'Extinction Archive' features colored drawings of over 900 threatened species on rice paper treated with ...

The next four titles offer more traditional plots. “Science v Story” and “Storytelling to Accelerate Climate Solutions” explain how stories function within science and advocacy. “Hot Takes” and ...

Imagine an asteroid striking Earth and wiping out most of the human population. Even if some lucky people survived the impact, Homo sapiens might still face extinction, because the social networks ...

Long before modern humans appeared in Africa about 300,000 years ago, our ancestors faced a crisis that almost ended the lineage entirely. A groundbreaking study has revealed that between 930,000 and ...

At some point in the deep past, humans may have come frighteningly close to disappearing altogether. Here’s what we know, ...