One of the most intriguing and intricate mysteries in paleontology is the disappearance of North America's giant mammals, or ...

AI doomers claim that superintelligence will lead to human extinction—but their scenario makes implausible assumptions about ...

A new analysis suggests that recent extinctions have been rare, limited mostly to islands and slowing. But others argue this is all just semantics.

The rapidity of animal species extinction is a grave concern, currently occurring at a rate 35 times faster than anticipated.

The planet is seeing a decline in biodiversity, but extinctions are relatively rare and don’t meet the threshold for a sixth ...

It May Be Too Late is a climate change idiom that is gaining recognition because global warming is bringing the threat of irreversible climate system collapse to reality as nightly TV news broadcasts ...

AI researcher Eliezer Yudkowsky warned superintelligent AI could threaten humanity by pursuing its own goals over human ...