Humanity faces an uncertain future, and possible extinction. Researchers share their thoughts on some of the biggest threats facing our species — and how to avert them.

As climate change threatens tropical forests, a new study shows how the loss of those forests can be devastating to life on Earth.

Extinction from global warming: Changing interactions between species may be more dangerous than high temperatures alone. ScienceDaily . Retrieved June 2, 2025 from www.sciencedaily.com / releases ...

World's largest mass extinction may have begun with volcanic winter The end-Permian mass extinction 252 million years ago might have begun when eruptions triggered a volcanic winter By Cameron Duke ...

Mass extinction event 260 million years ago resulted from climate change, studies say Ocean stagnation, ecosystem collapses, and volcano eruptions all played a role. Howard Lee – Jul 25, 2023 2: ...

Causes of extinction. To answer the original question of this project, no, the Wrangel Island population did likely not go extinct due to inbreeding.

Huge volcanic eruption didn’t cause climate change and mass extinction 140 million years ago. News. By Nicolas Greber, Joshua Davies, Brenda Chung Rocha published 31 March 2021 ...

More than 540 million years ago, a mass extinction took place on our planet wiping out soft-bodied organisms. What caused the world’s first mass extinction, known as the end-Ediacaran extinction ...

Modern research concludes that the Chicxulub meteorite, rather than volcanic eruptions in India, is primarily responsible for the mass extinction of dinosaurs 66 million years ago.

US Sea Level Rise Causes First Local Extinction—'We Are on the Front Lines' Published Jul 10, 2024 at 11:19 AM EDT Updated Jul 12, 2024 at 11:00 AM EDT. By .

If the ages of the climate change, associated mass extinction and the LIP do not overlap, then the volcanism is not the cause. An artist’s rendition of a post-volcanic eruption landscape ...