Human activity is driving plants and animals to extinction at an unprecedented rate. As countries meet in Armenia to discuss ways to reverse nature loss, DW reveals how declining biodiversity is ...

New AI-powered research questions whether a majority of Earth’s mass extinctions were as abrupt as previously believed.

Mass extinction events are defined by a 75% loss in total species. These events can take tens of thousands to several million years. Experts are alarmed at today's "unprecedented" population abundance ...

This is the conclusion of Daniel H. Rothman, a Professor of Geophysics in the Department of Earth, Atmospheric, and Planetary Sciences at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology in Cambridge, MA. He ...

We have reached an unprecedented moment in history and for the first time ever, humans have induced what some are calling the ...