At the very beginning of this book, you write, “How would your understanding of the meaning of your life change if you knew ...

The dropping moth populations in remote areas indicate a "new era" of ecological collapse, according to ecologists. For some ...

Humans will likely go extinct eventually, leaving behind a planet that will have to adjust in their wake. While there is no true consensus as to what a human-free world will look like, there are a ...

Around 74,000 years ago, Mount Toba in present-day Indonesia unleashed one of the most powerful volcanic eruptions in Earth's ...

Assuming they’re online at the time of the human extinction, many of the 440 active nuclear plants on Earth would eventually melt down without maintenance.

Figures are difficult to come by when discussing human evolution, but here is an estimate: The Neanderthals became extinct around 40,000 to 37,000 years ago.