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 ...

Some scientists don’t consider this event a mass extinction event based on analyses suggesting the biodiversity trend was driven more by a decrease in speciation rates than by an increase in ...

The new study deciphered the single-most greatest mass extinction on Earth driven by a natural calamity that still exists.

which is considered to be the last major mass extinction event before today. This comparison can offer an inkling of what might await us in the future. The researchers have just published their ...

"Until recently, we lacked suitable methods for investigating the extinction of plant species ... spread across the Northern Hemisphere, only to die out during the transition to the current ...

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

Though not yet near pre-pandemic levels, Mass attendance numbers are on the ... several decades — leading to projections of a near-extinction of Catholicism — such dire projections seem ...