A document endorsed by 17 experts has warned that Earth is facing a future of mass extinction, declining health and climate ...

Scores of researchers and scientific groups have been warning that research toward the creation of mirror life should not be conducted. Not everyone is convinced.

Earth has experienced five mass extinctions throughout its history, with the most famous being the Chicxulub asteroid that ...

(Anton Petrus/Moment/Getty Images) Life on Earth, beginning with simple microorganisms that evolved and diversified into the ...

Have you ever heard someone say that we are currently in a sixth mass extinction? A mass extinction occurs when the world’s ...

When bird populations decline, it usually signals larger ecological problems affecting insects, plants, water quality, and ...

A paper signed by 17 experts has warned the planet is in a much worse shape than many people comprehend, and urgent action is ...

(Dawid Adam Iurino/PaleoFactory/Sapienza University of Rome) For the first 280 million years of animal life on Earth, slow-living creatures such as clam-like brachiopods and crinoid sea lilies ...

A hidden process deep beneath Earth’s surface may have played a powerful role in some of the most dramatic climate swings in ...

Nijin-Konai is built around a brutal evolutionary cycle in which intense solar radiation causes mass extinctions roughly every 50 million years. Its thin ozone layer leaves the planet vulnerable, yet ...