The human population explosion, soaring from 1.6 billion to more than 6 billion during the 20th century, has had a profound impact on global environments and biodiversity. However, large mammalian ...

We are living in a time many people refer to as the Anthropocene. Humans have become the single most influential species on the planet, causing significant global warming and other changes to land, ...

Geologists on an international subcommission recently voted down a proposal to formally recognize that we have entered the Anthropocene, a new geological epoch representing the time when massive, ...

There is no question that the existence of humans as a species has dramatically altered planet Earth in ways both obvious and subtle. From the air we breathe to the ground we walk on to the water we ...

And of course, there is the ever-present danger that nuclear war or other destructive acts could create a sudden extinction event. As a result of these human-centered threats, some researchers call ...

Earth's 4.5 billion year geological history is full of death and rebirth, mass extinctions and explosions of biodiversity, with different periods often marked by cataclysmic changes that radically ...

Species extinction risk is shaped by a complex interplay between intrinsic biological traits and external environmental pressures. Intrinsic factors such as geographic range size, habitat specificity, ...