Warnings that humanity is heading toward its own disappearance have shifted from the fringes of science fiction into mainstream research and public debate. Instead of vague prophecies, scientists now ...

Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. Humans will likely go extinct eventually, leaving behind a planet that has to adjust in their wake. While there is no true ...

Stone tools reexamined from Tunel Wielki Cave in southern Poland are now believed to date between 450,000 and 550,000 years ago, far older than first thought. The tools were found alongside animal ...

"As humans we have a unique capacity and moral obligation to steward the earth for the benefit of ourselves and all living ...

Nobel Prize-winning physicist David Gross has issued a stark warning that humanity stands a slim chance of surviving another ...

In school, we learned about the asteroid that wiped out an estimated 76% of all creatures. Scientists now call this the fifth mass extinction. You’re reading that correctly: throughout Earth’s history ...

A new report led by Conservation International and IUCN, published today in Oryx, warns that over 40% of more than 8,500 soil ...