Human activity may be triggering the greatest extinction event since the asteroid impact that wiped out the dinosaurs, according to scientists. Their study, based on a review of decades of research on ...

Shocking research has warned that humans are driving extinctions at a scale not seen since the mass extinction of the dinosaurs some 66 million years ago. The researchers from the University of York, ...

Humans have wiped out hundreds of species — with many more on the brink or experiencing large declines in population. Some scientists have argued that we have entered a “sixth mass extinction” event ...

About 445 million years ago, Earth nearly wiped out life in the oceans. Glaciers spread across the supercontinent Gondwana, ...

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. As we continue to ...

Human beings are steadily heading towards extinction and may “already be a dead species walking”, according to a scientist. Writing an opinion piece in Scientific American, palaeontologist and editor ...

In fact, the last great extinction event in the history of life on Earth could be our fault. Human activities such as habitat destruction, pollution, climate change, and overexploitation of species ...

Humans will likely go extinct eventually, leaving behind a planet that has to adjust in their wake. While there is no true consensus as to what a human-free world will look like, there are a number of ...

CINCINNATI (WKRC) - Earth's atmosphere, which is currently rich in oxygen, is predicted to undergo a drastic shift that could lead to the extinction of most life forms, including humans, scientists ...