The U.S. is the only major economy where planet-warming pollution dramatically increased last year. The United Nations warns ...
Fossil evidence from the Denver Basin indicates a significant fungal bloom after the Cretaceous-Paleogene mass extinction.
The world is facing the threat of the sixth mass extinction of species, and this process is not slowing down. Camila Jardim, ...
The great egret’s story is remarkable, as is the conversion of this low-grade agricultural land into one of the richest ...
An artificial-intelligence model trained on nearly four million fossils suggests that three of the extinction events might ...
A phylogenetic analysis of 314 mammal species in Nigeria associated extinction risk with brain mass, absolute current geographic range and generation time, while the relevant traits differed among ...
In the Namib Desert, there is a plant that looks anything but ordinary.Its name is Welwitschia (Welwitschia mirabilis).It appears to have a short trunk on the ground from which many tattered, long ...
Human activity is driving plants and animals to extinction at an unprecedented rate. As countries meet in Armenia to discuss ...
Scientists estimate about 99 per cent of species that have existed on Earth are extinct — thanks largely to five mass extinctions over hundreds of millions of years.
A comprehensive IUCN Red List reassessment of 892 reef-building coral species finds that 44 percent face elevated relative ...
Fossils unearthed in Boone County are revealing new secrets about life during the ice age. A former UC professor says they ...
A major new Lancet commission identifies nuclear war and malicious AI among threats capable of causing human extinction this ...