About 445 million years ago, Earth nearly wiped out life in the oceans. Glaciers spread across the supercontinent Gondwana, ...

An artificial intelligence arms race between countries and corporations to see who can develop the most powerful AI machines could create an existential threat to humanity, the co-founder of an AI ...

In the past couple of decades, several species have been driven to extinction thanks, in large part, to human interference. Sometimes that interference is direct, poaching for big game trophies or ...

Unless climate change is curbed, Earth's oceans could see a mass extinction of marine life unlike anything the planet has seen for millions of years, according to a new study published Thursday. "If ...

Human beings are steadily heading towards extinction and may “already be a dead species walking”, according to a scientist.

Mass extinctions, volcanism, and impacts: The geological extinction record : history, data, biases, and testing / Norman MacLeod -- Large igneous provinces and mass extinctions : an update / David P.G ...

As out-of-control heat cooks our planet, shattering temperature records for the last 13 consecutive months, it melts polar ice and raises sea levels. Most people are familiar with how this works, but ...

Accurate forecasting has long been an art and a science, but when the stakes are high, it is smart to make it into a tournament. Researchers recently systematically surveyed two competing groups of ...

Tropical waters would experience the greatest loss of biodiversity, while polar species are at the highest risk of extinction. Climate-driven ocean warming and oxygen depletion would be the primary ...