extinction

In what year will the human population grow too large for the Earth to sustain? The answer is about 1970, according to research by the World Wildlife Fund. In 1970, the planet's 3 and a half billion people were sustainable. But on…

This week on 60 Minutes, correspondent Scott Pelley reports on something scientists are calling the sixth mass extinction. There have been five great die-offs in the history of our planet, when at least 75 percent of the known…

Just like the fickle world of fashion, baby names come and go - and according to the experts, there are more than a few monikers set for extinction in 2023.While the year’s most popular names are likely to be influenced by music stars and…

A global agreement that vows to protect the world’s biodiversity is a “big step” but it doesn’t do “enough” to halt species’ extinction. In Montreal, at 3.30am on Monday local time, the final COP15 agreement was reached by 190 countries…

Ideas53:59Thomas Halliday: History of Extinct EcosystemsThe story of complex life on Earth is a story of evolution and extinction — of long-term continuity and massive disruption. British paleontologist and evolutionary biologist Thomas…

Asteroid responsible for mass extinction of dinosaurs on Earth possibly caused megatsunami on MarsAn asteroid impact similar to the Chicxulub collision which resulted in the mass extinction of most dinosaurs on Earth, that occurred in a…

Jaron Lanier, the eminent American computer scientist, composer and artist, is no stranger to skepticism around social media, but his current interpretations of its effects are becoming darker and his warnings more trenchant.Lanier, a…

IANS New York, November 27 Earth is currently in the middle of a mass extinction, losing thousands of species each year and new research suggests environmental changes caused the first such…

Taiwo Owatemi MP knows better than most the crisis threatening England’s independent community pharmacies. Some 670 of these often family-run businesses have had to close since 2015, with predictions that many more could shut by 2024. Last…

The earliest morphological traces of life on Earth are often highly controversial. A new study by Virginia Tech geobiologists traces the cause of the first known mass extinction of animals to decreased global oxygen availability, leading…