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

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

Two weeks ago, outside Google DeepMind’s London headquarters near King’s Cross, Michaël Trazzi sat down with a crudely drawn ...

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

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

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

The global decline in birth rates has been a fraught topic for years, leaving some folks obsessed with ways to drive it up—including Elon Musk, who has fathered at least 14 children, admitted the fear ...

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 researchers Yudkowsky and Soares warn in their new book that the race to develop superintelligent AI could lead to human extinction.

Tech leaders agree AI super-intelligence will transform our lives. But their visions range from enhanced human consciousness ...