Aside from these events, the extinction of a species was rare ... 562 have been due to anthropogenic causes like habitat ...

Lemurs, small, big-eyed primates that live in the trees of Madagascar off the southeast coast of Africa, are a mystery of ...

A groundbreaking study by the Birbal Sahni Institute of Palaeosciences (BSIP), an autonomous institute under the Department ...

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 ...

It added: "Significantly, this probably represents the first recorded mammalian extinction due to anthropogenic climate change." The loss of an animal that was hardly known in the public mind has ...

Extinction rates started to increase from ... "Our results suggest that substantial anthropogenic influence on biodiversity started millions of years earlier than currently assumed," the ...

Although there have been mass extinction events in Earth's history where vast swathes of life have been wiped out, until now they have all been triggered by natural causes like asteroids and volcanic ...

An event that could cause human extinction or permanently and drastically curtail humanity's potential is known as an existential risk. Potential global catastrophic risks include anthropogenic risks, ...

The article, signed by researchers from Princeton University, recalls that the emission of large amounts of anthropogenic ... past episodes of mass extinction caused by global environmental ...