Of all the species that have ever existed on Earth, 99% of them are gone. Most of those were wiped out during what are known as "Mass Extinction Events". Since life emerged on our planet, there have ...

Biodiversity is declining across the planet, but what about in Wisconsin, how do we measure it, and how can we stop it?

The first weeks of 2025 have seen catastrophic wildfires locally and internationally , record global ocean temperatures , and unprecedented coral ble ...

Reduced contribution of sulfur to the mass extinction associated with the Chicxulub impact event. Nature Communications , 2025 DOI: 10.1038/s41467-024-55145-6 Cite This Page : ...

Vienna-based sales agency Autlook has acquired Robin Petré’s timely feature documentary “Only on Earth,” ahead of ... has been changing. With mass extinction and temperatures rising across ...

On 27 December last year, astronomers using the ATLAS survey telescope in Chile discovered a small asteroid moving away from ...

Elon Musk’s Fork in the Road isn’t just a sculpture—it’s a monument to the tech world’s obsession with civilizational ...

Mass extinctions are very important to how life evolved on Earth. For example, when an asteroid hit the Earth 66 million years ago, the resulting dinosaur extinction led mammals to... Researchers ...

Altering natural habitats for agriculture is the single biggest driver of extinctions. Land conversion is contributing to what scientists call Earth’s sixth mass extinction. Now, new maps link ...

Earth's climate has changed throughout history for numerous reasons, but modern climate change is driven by human behavior.