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

While it could almost be my trousers size, "30 by 30" instead refers to a United Nations proposal to protect 30 percent of ...

Discover how the first mass extinction put jawed fishes on the map, species that would later come to dominate animal life on ...

Researchers are trying to understand why some wild species do better than others over time, as the environment changes.

A report was released by the Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change (IPCC), specifically looking at the impacts of climate change. It makes for grim reading. The report tells us that climate change ...

A spectacular fossil trove on the Arctic island of Spitsbergen shows that marine life made a stunning comeback after Earth’s greatest extinction. Tens of thousands of fossils reveal fully aquatic ...

The idea of a creeping mass extinction has served as one of the scary subplots of our ongoing climate drama. For decades, scientists have warned that we may be on the cusp of, or already entering, the ...

Almost all life on land and in the ocean was wiped out during "The Great Dying," a mass extinction event at the end of the Permian Era about 250 million years ago. New evidence suggests that the Great ...

Museum researchers reconstructed the evolutionary history of stony corals over the past 460 million years, providing insights into how the animals may fare in the future Jack Tamisiea A colony of ...