The damage humans are doing to the world is now so great that in some ecosystems the biodiversity loss exceeds the rate of extinction at the time the dinosaurs died out, and the destruction could ...

Earth's sixth mass extinction event is accelerating Over 500 species of animals could disappear in two decades The mass extinctions could cause the civilization to collapse Scientists warned that the ...

A new study has found that while the large-scale biodiversity extinction taking place right now doesn’t qualify as a mass extinction just yet, the earth is rapidly barrelling towards the sixth such ...

The collapse of the ozone layer triggered a mass extinction event Intense radiation from the Sun killed off different species of plant life A similar mass extinction event could happen again due to ...

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The scientists who were among the first to declare the world’s sixth mass extinction event was already underway in a 2015 study, have published new research revealing the rate at which wildlife is ...

Human activity is drastically reshaping life on earth through deforestation, exploiting species and other environmental impacts. Today, biodiversity is declining at an accelerated rate, just as it did ...

Earth's most famous mass extinction event was the giant asteroid that wiped out the dinosaurs 66 million years ago. But although it was severe, obliterating some 76 per cent of the world's species, ...

A gradual decline in biodiversity may have led to a more devastating ecosystem collapse during the Permian-Triassic mass extinction, according to new research. Scientists recreated ancient food webs ...

Mass extinctions of land-dwelling animals, including amphibians, reptiles, mammals, and birds, occur once every 27 million years, according to a new study. US researchers performed statistical ...