Human beings have been at the center of ecological change on Earth for thousands of years. But as history shows, no species ...

The idea that extreme climate change could one day cause a mass extinction and end the human dominance is not as farfetched ...

Humans have dominated this planet for tens of thousand years. One study showed the arrival of people in Australia about 47,000 years ago caused the extinction of marsupials such as the giant ...

While conservation efforts have bolstered the populations of many species considered to be threatened in 2025, many animal and plant species continue to dwindle in number, with some even going extinct ...

New fossil research shows how human impacts, particularly through the rise of agriculture and livestock, have disrupted natural mammal communities as profoundly as the Ice Age extinctions. Fossil ...

If you were lucky 74,000 years ago, you would have survived the Toba supereruption, one of the largest catastrophic events that Earth has seen in the past 2.5 million years. While the volcano is ...

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