The dire wolf is back — at least according to the company that made headlines earlier this month for the world’s first ...

Chinese scientists have discovered that fragile swamp forests in the Pearl River Delta (PRD) region suddenly collapsed ...

Have human beings permanently changed the planet? That seemingly simple question has sparked a new battle between geologists and environmental advocates over what to call the time period we live ...

Increasingly, researchers are doing the numbers, and saying, yes, if present trends continue, a mass extinction is very likely underway. The evidence is pieced together from details drawn from all ...

"Our results," says Greco, "suggest the existence of anthropogenic extinction filtering acting on mammals in tropical forests, whereby human overpopulation has driven the most sensitive species to ...

"Our results suggest the existence of anthropogenic extinction filtering acting on mammals in tropical forests, whereby human ...

Although there have been mass extinction events in Earth's history where vast swathes of life have been wiped out, until now they have all been triggered by natural causes like asteroids and volcanic ...

Because of their sensitivity to climate change, habitat loss, and pollution, they may be the canary in the coal mine for the nascent anthropogenic mass extinction. Approximately 200 amphibian ...

I explore the impacts of the anthropogenic extinction crisis on species trait diversity, and phylogenetic diversity. Macroecology, biogeography, phylogenetic diversity, trait diversity, conservation, ...