Human beings are steadily heading towards extinction and may “already be a dead species walking”, according to a scientist.

A mass extinction event is a term used to describe a large-scale event that wipes out species. It is usually not a short, one-time incident but rather something that occurs over thousands or millions ...

Human activity may be triggering the greatest extinction event since the asteroid impact that wiped out the dinosaurs, according to scientists. Their study, based on a review of decades of research on ...

It troubles me deeply to hear about the massive wave of extinctions that scientists predict are coming if we don’t address the current human assault on our natural environment. I am wondering what we ...

In fact, the last great extinction event in the history of life on Earth could be our fault. Human activities such as habitat destruction, pollution, climate change, and overexploitation of species ...

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Shocking research has warned that humans are driving extinctions at a scale not seen since the mass extinction of the dinosaurs some 66 million years ago. The researchers from the University of York, ...

SpaceX CEO Elon Musk said, "The future of humanity is going to bifurcate in two directions: Either it's going to become multiplanetary, or it's going to remain confined to one planet, and eventually, ...

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