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.

Most estimates place Earth’s human population at around 8.2 billion, but Josias Láng-Ritter—a postdoctoral researcher at ...

An analysis of changes to global ecosystems has revealed that almost nowhere is untouched by the influence of humanity, with ...

Dr David Jablonski, professor of geophysical sciences at the University of Chicago, joins Jim to talk about what might be ...

We may be starting to get a grasp on what kick-started life on Earth – and it could help us search for it on other planets ...

The idea that life on Earth could continue without humans leads us to reflect on our permanence as a species. Despite our significant transformation of the planet, Earth’s history shows that no ...

the idea that Earth could contain a few billion more human inhabitants that we thought is extremely unlikely. “If we really are undercounting by that massive amount, it’s a massive news story ...