In the long and storied history of earth, there have been five mass extinctions, the most famous, of course, being the dinosaurs. Believe it or not, humans and the earth are experiencing the sixth ...

The sixth mass extinction isn’t a distant threat—it’s happening now. Species are vanishing at an alarming rate due to habitat loss, climate change, and human activity. This video explores the evidence ...

Current trends suggest we’re now in another extinction crisis, although it’s unclear if whether that amounts to a sixth mass extinction. The Ordovician-Silurian mass extinction event may have wiped ...

Harvard Physicist Lisa Randall explains how Earth could be in the middle of the 6th mass extinction due to human activity. Randall has authored several books, including the recent "Dark Matter and ...

Although it may not be obvious, another devastating mass extinction event is taking place today - the sixth of its kind in Earth's history. The trend is hitting global fauna on multiple fronts ...

"The Sixth Great Extinction Is Happening Now." That is a quote from Primatologist and Conservationist Dr. Jane Goodall. Dr. Goodall was being interviewed by a reporter from the BBC in Vienna, Austria.

The current period of extinction is known as the Holocene extinction event, sometimes referred to as the sixth extinction, as there have been five distinctive periods of mass extinction previously.

The new head of Britain’s competition watchdog has said that businesses should adopt more green policies to avert a “sixth ...

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 ...

We're in the midst of the Earth’s sixth mass extinction crisis. Harvard biologist E. O. Wilson estimated that 30,000 species per year (or three species per hour) are being driven to extinction.

Our planet now faces a global extinction crisis never witnessed by humankind. Scientists predict that more than 1 million species are on track for extinction in the coming decades. But there’s still ...