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 ...

Human activity may be triggering the greatest extinction event since the asteroid impact that wiped out the dinosaurs, according to scientists. Their study, based on a review of decades of research on ...

The Apennine brown bear (Ursus arctos marsicanus) is an isolated population found in Central Italy. Previous research ...

It troubles me deeply to hear about the massive wave of extinctions that scientists predict are coming if we don’t address the current human assault on our natural environment. I am wondering what we ...

(CNN) — 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” ...

In fact, the last great extinction event in the history of life on Earth could be our fault. Human activities such as habitat destruction, pollution, climate change, and overexploitation of species ...

You’ve heard it before: we’re well into the sixth mass extinction of life on earth. Only this time, unlike the other five big ones, humans are overwhelmingly the killers responsible. As we continue to ...

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