Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. A wildfire frontline with emergency services nearby, Okanagan Valley, British Columbia, Canada. Farther back in our planet’s ...

Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. Dodo in the birds exhibition room at the Natural History Museum on 19th January 2024 in London, United Kingdom. Scientists have ...

This is the unsettling arc of Homo sapiens, from a precarious African species to the first creature capable of reshaping Earth’s climate and biosphere. Drawn from Elizabeth Kolbert’s The Sixth ...

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” event ...

Could you run for 100 hours this year? How about just doing a little more than 15 minutes each day? In fact, these goals are essentially equivalent, but one certainly sounds more ambitious than the ...

We've come to the end of a year at the end of a decade. If it had a color, it'd be green. Its signature image? How about that of the plight of the polar bears — former kings of the wild floating on ...

There have been five unquestionably great extinctions on earth: the end-Ordovician, the late-Devonian, the end-Permian, end-Triassic, and the end-Cretaceous extinctions. Some think we are now in a ...

The words of United Nations Secretary General António Guterres couldn’t have been starker: “We are waging a war on nature. Ecosystems have become playthings of profit. Human activities are laying ...

School of Visual Arts (SVA) presents “Sympoietic Encounters: Making With-in the Sixth Great Extinction,” an exhibition of animation, drawing, painting and performance by 13 students, curated by Yindi ...

The Sepkoski Curve, representing marine diversity at the taxonomic level of families over the last 600 million years. The 'Big Five' mass extinctions are labeled at the troughs of the diversity curve, ...