Scientists have long treated mass extinctions as events locked deep in the fossil record. That framing now feels less distant ...

A report was released by the Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change (IPCC), specifically looking at the impacts of climate change. It makes for grim reading. The report tells us that climate change ...

Farther back in our planet’s history, volcanic eruptions, rapid climate change, and plummeting oxygen levels have caused at least four additional mass extinctions, with smaller pulses of biodiversity ...

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 ...

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, ...

New analysis shows several families of dinosaurs were likely thriving in North America in the latter days of the dinosaur era. A new study reveals that Earth's biomes changed dramatically in the wake ...