Study warns that humans may be driving Earth toward a sixth mass extinction. The research shows species loss, but the future ...

This statement might sound like a line from a sci-fi movie, but what if life on Earth didn’t start here at all? For decades, ...

In an astonishing twist of our technological progress, humans have inadvertently created a space barrier around Earth. This article delves into the nature of this barrier, its formation and its ...

The term “ecosystem engineering” has been used for decades as a way to describe organisms that drastically alter their environment, changing the abiotic factors in their habitat as well as the lives ...

Human activity may be triggering the greatest extinction event since the asteroid impact that wiped out the dinosaurs, ...

"The pace of change we’re seeing today is unlike anything we know of in the past 66 million years," said ecologist Jack Hatfield.

Most estimates place Earth’s human population at around 8.2 billion, but Josias Láng-Ritter—a postdoctoral researcher at ...

2024 is officially the hottest year ever recorded on Planet Earth, at least while humans have been around, according to the official tallies from meteorological organizations around the world. The ...

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This is the message of the sixth issue of the annual "State of the Climate" report. The report was prepared by an ...