Human beings have been at the center of ecological change on Earth for thousands of years. But as history shows, no species ...

The idea that extreme climate change could one day cause a mass extinction and end the human dominance is not as farfetched ...

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

Could Earth have hosted an advanced civilization before humans? This intriguing question is at the heart of the Silurian Hypothesis, a theory that challenges our understanding of Earth’s history. By ...

In your Sunday, June 29 VOP section, a writer claims that our current heat wave is partly due to climate change caused by burning fossil fuels. It is a fact that Earth's climate is changing, has ...

The moon's surface may be more than just a dusty, barren landscape. Over billions of years, tiny particles from Earth's ...

In his wonderfully titled 2007 best-seller, The World Without Us, author Alan Weisman pondered what would happen to Earth without humans. If we were not around to maintain them, how soon would our ...