What happens when the biodiversity witnessed by one generation fades into memory the next? These questions are crossroads at ...

Global warming is producing a rapid loss of plant species -- according to estimates, roughly 600 plant species have died out since 1750 -- twice the number of animal species lost. But which species ...

In this forest thick with trees up to 600 years old lives the southernmost population of the California condor (Gymnogyps ...

While mass extinctions might seem like ancient history ... For instance, the Permian-Triassic extinction—known as “The Great Dying”—was likely caused by massive volcanic eruptions that released ...

Can America survive this meteor shower? Maybe — if we stay focused, get organized, show up, support good candidates, write ...

All that shit eats so much oxygen that large areas become marine death zones ... but as a byword for a mass extinction event. The ordinary person who has lived through the extraordinary ...