Since its formation approximately 4.5 billion years ago, Earth has endured five mass extinctions, where roughly 75 percent of the planet's species disappeared within 2.8 million years - merely a blink ...

Scientists warn climate chaos, biodiversity loss and population surge could trigger mass extinction and societal collapse.

Think times are tough for mankind right now? It could always be worse — just ask the handful of humans who lived nearly a million years ago. Coffee found to have startling effect on aging, says new ...

"A loophole and an opportunity" has led to the rise of hemp-derived THC drinks, but now, their future seems uncertain.

At some level, this dust layer likely produced a cooling effect, much as large volcanic eruptions do today. Indeed, a ...

Earth faced its worst extinction event around 252 million years ago. Volcanic activity in the Siberian Traps is the leading ...

Jill Lepore’s new book, “The Rise and Fall of the Artificial State,” examines how our dependence on technology is eroding ...

The Red Rebel Brigade will perform a climate-awareness procession across the Bourne Bridge on Labor Day weekend. Dressed in red costumes, the group aims to capture the attention of motorists heading ...

The first-of-its-kind light rail floating bridge is zapping the fish in Lake Washington. Sound Transit revealed its ...

University of Iowa researchers have determined that periodical cicadas, insect swarms that emerge from the ground every 13 or ...

A population boom in New Zealand's endangered flightless kakapo parrot demonstrates how species can claw their way back from the brink.

Mumbai's black basalt rock is a direct legacy of the Deccan Traps eruptions, which occurred almost simultaneously with the ...