Our planet’s first known mass extinction happened about 440 million years ago. Species diversity on Earth had been increasing ...

Scientists don't call it the "Great Dying" for nothing. About 252 million years ago, upward of 80% of all marine species ...

Mountaintops host some of the world's most diverse butterfly species, but climate change could transform these habitats into ...

Global warming is producing a rapid loss of plant ... "Everyone knows that the wooly mammoth went extinct, but virtually no one mentions the plants that were lost at the end of the last ice ...

This destabilized the climate and the carbon cycle, leading to dramatic global warming, deoxygenated oceans, and mass extinction. However, many plants survived, leaving behind fossils which ...

Among some of these effects include stronger storms, more flooding, and even extinction of some of the world's most vulnerable species. Global warming is also causing changes in jet streams ...

As we breach the Paris limit of 1.5C, we will rapidly hit climate tipping points which will render global warming irreversible. Species are becoming extinct at 1,000 times the normal background ...

The rate at which the planet is warming has sped up since 2010, and now researchers say that China's efforts to clean up air ...

"This step-change impact severity shows that going above +2C of global warming can be a tipping point where we may see a lot of local extinctions," he says. Local extinctions can lead to ...

After Earth's worst mass extinction, surviving ocean animals spread worldwide. Stanford's model shows why this happened.