It happened before, and could happen again…. That's the message in a new study about the catastrophic collapse of Earth's tropical forests due to natural volcanic causes 252 million years ago. The ...

The millions of species humans share the world with are valuable in their own right. When one species is lost, it has a ...

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

Almost all life on land and in the ocean was wiped out during "The Great Dying," a mass extinction event at the end of the Permian Era about 250 million years ago. New evidence suggests that the Great ...

In a groundbreaking study, new fossil evidence has shed light on the mysterious 5-million-year heatwave that followed Earth’s most catastrophic extinction event—known as the Permian-Triassic Mass ...

The collapse of tropical forests during Earth's most catastrophic extinction event was the primary cause of the prolonged global warming which followed, according to new research. The Permian–Triassic ...

Their findings, published in Nature Communications, suggest that the collapse of tropical forests during the extinction severely reduced Earth’s ability to remove carbon dioxide from the atmosphere.

A research team from the Nanjing Institute of Geology and Paleontology of the Chinese Academy of Sciences (NIGPAS), in collaboration with international partners, has completed a high-resolution ...

Around 100 activists, led by Extinction Rebellion, rode around the city on bikes as part of the “Critical Swarm," and then collapsed in front of the Tate Modern to symbolize the death of bee colonies.