Earth, triggering one of the most devastating mass extinctions in history. In a single moment, life on the planet changed forever. This video dives into the terrifying and fascinating aftermath of ...

In the first and only reconstruction of ocean pH ever carried out, new research from the University of St Andrews and the ...

As climate change threatens tropical forests, a new study shows how the loss of those forests can be devastating to life on ...

The Current Mass Extinction: Is the biosphere today on the verge of anything like the mass extinctions of the geological past? Could some equivalent of meteorite impacts or dramatic climate change ...

So then, what killed the dinosaurs in such a sudden fashion? Whatever it was, it also destroyed 75 percent of all plants and ...

At least five times, a biological catastrophe has engulfed Earth killing off the vast majority of species. As scientists say we’re in a sixth mass extinction, what can we learn from the past?

Scientists believe humans are now causing a mass extinction of plants and animals. Modern agriculture is a major contributor.

The disappearance of species is destructive, but it’s also one of the most natural, creative forces on Earth.

Mass extinction event 260 million years ago resulted from climate change, studies say Ocean stagnation, ecosystem collapses, and volcano eruptions all played a role.

Putting an end to a mass extinction sounds like an impossible task, but some researchers argue that doing so would be setting our ambitions too low ...

The Great Dying The Permian-Triassic mass extinction –also called The Great Dying–was triggered by massive volcanic eruptions in present day Siberia.