The sixth mass extinction isn’t a distant threat—it’s happening now. Species are vanishing at an alarming rate due to habitat loss, climate change, and human activity. This video explores the evidence ...

Human activity—causing land use change, global warming, and pollution—are driving heightened extinction rates and population declines across many taxa. Some scientists argue we’re currently facing a ...

Harvard Physicist Lisa Randall explains how Earth could be in the middle of the 6th mass extinction due to human activity. Randall has authored several books, including the recent "Dark Matter and ...

We're in the midst of the Earth’s sixth mass extinction crisis. Harvard biologist E ... and you can see why scientists refer to it as a crisis unparalleled in human history. The current mass ...

The new head of Britain’s competition watchdog has said that businesses should adopt more green policies to avert a “sixth mass extinction”. Doug Gurr, a former Amazon executive, argued that firms ...

The current period of extinction is known as the Holocene extinction event, sometimes referred to as the sixth extinction ... to the activities of human beings. Some experts have estimated ...

Instead, it is chiefly the activities of an ever-growing human population, in concert with long-term environmental change. The typical rate of extinction differs for different groups of organisms.

Biodiversity is declining across the planet, but what about in Wisconsin, how do we measure it, and how can we stop it?

Now, the New York Times has published a piece arguing in favor of human extinction. Professor of philosophy (of course!) Todd May believes that we should go the way of the dodo because we are ...