Around 66 million years ago, a six-mile-wide asteroid hit Earth, triggering the extinction of three-quarters of all living ...

"Our findings reveal how climate change and human activities can lead to megafauna ... of woolly rhinoceros population dynamics reveal extinction mechanisms, Proceedings of the National Academy ...

that found around 1 million of Earth’s 8 million species are at risk of extinction due to human activity. Since the 1970s, global biodiversity, the variation of life on Earth, has declined by a ...

Conservationists have lamented over increasing human activities in reserved forests, saying such have led to extinction of many wildlife, especially gorillas. These activities include ...

Anthropogenic extinction, which is driven by human activities, poses a severe threat to biodiversity worldwide. Professor Bridget B. Baker of the University of Florida's Wildlife Ecology and ...

Fresh research has revealed that marine animals are facing an unprecedented risk of extinction because of ... and ecosystems are impacted by human activities and climate change, the more ...

The current extinction crisis is entirely of our own making. More than a century of habitat destruction, pollution, the spread of invasive species, overharvest from the wild, climate change, ...

That was about 1,000 years before their extinction in other parts of North ... study that argues that wildfires due to increased human activity were likely to blame. Edward Davis is the director ...

Extinction is a natural byproduct of life and evolution, but an alarming number of species have entered the dustbin of history thanks to human activity — which is anything but natural.

The ramifications of human activity on the island of Madagascar ... and several other species are threatened with extinction due to human influences such as deforestation, hunting and climate ...

Extinction simply cannot be the way our story ... since all these dangers were the direct result of human activities. The threat environment was quickly becoming a dense obstacle course of human ...

This recent discovery, published in PNAS, contradicts previous research that found humans had no role in the extinction of ... how climate change and human activities can lead to megafauna ...