Humans are killing off species thousands of times faster than nature creates them, new research finds. The modern rate of extinction across species is 1,000 times that of the background rate before ...

WE MAY have just 82 years to avert disaster, save our planet and ensure the human species lives on, according to this mathematician. By the end of the century, it’s feared that so much carbon will ...

Investigating the 'overkill' hypothesis, this piece explores how human-wildlife conflict may have driven megafaunal ...

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, ...

A mass extinction event is a term used to describe a large-scale event that wipes out species. It is usually not a short, one-time incident but rather something that occurs over thousands or millions ...

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 ...

Human activity has accelerated extinction rates, raising concerns that we may be entering a sixth mass extinction.