Land conversion is contributing to what scientists call Earth’s sixth mass extinction. Now, new maps link the conversion of landscapes to the risk of extinction for species; they also help ...

Is the biosphere today on the verge of anything like the mass extinctions of the geological past? Could some equivalent of meteorite impacts or dramatic climate change be underway, as humankind's ...

Is the biosphere today on the verge of anything like the mass extinctions of the geological past? Could some equivalent of meteorite impacts or dramatic climate change be underway, as humankind's ...

The sixth mass extinction isn’t a distant threat—it’s happening now. Species are vanishing at an alarming rate due to habitat ...

The world has experienced many periods of mass extinction caused by a variety of natural factors, but the greatest period of mass extinction the world has ever seen is occurring right now.

Across the globe, no other human activity currently affects the survival of wildlife species more than where we choose to grow our food. Alongside other impacts like hunting and climate change ...

Mass extinctions are defined by the loss of a large part of the biodiversity in a (geologically speaking) short span of time, when the evolution of new species can't compensate the losses.

More specifically, land conversion poses such a threat to wildlife that the Earth is now considered to be in a period known as the sixth mass ... Extinctions, (LIFE)—an easy-to-use, map-based ...

We are looking at the effects of climate change, changing vegetation and human hunting on this mass extinction. We are focusing on extinct species from Europe and northern Asia, along with some from ...