You’ve heard it before: we’re well into the sixth mass extinction of life on earth. Only this time, unlike the other five big ones, humans are overwhelmingly the killers responsible. As we continue to ...

Robert Kuehnel, of LaFayette; Martha Viglietta, of Pompey; and Zac Bellinger, of Syracuse, are members of the Syracuse Chapter of Citizens’ Climate Lobby. On Earth Day 2025, the 55th anniversary of ...

The death of primatologist Jane Goodall has marked the end of an era in science, but from her we learned to always hold hope in humanity. Yet before she passed, she left us with a final warning about ...

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

If we manage to reach the climate target set by the Paris Agreement, we could be living in a world that is, on average, 2 degrees Celsius hotter than preindustrial levels by the end of this century, ...

Elon Musk's interest in sending humans to Mars is no secret − and he has a plan (and vehicle) to do it. The billionaire founder of SpaceX, who has been thrust into the spotlight for his association ...

A tree-ringed African lake has yielded a record of Earth's magnetic field spanning the past 150,000 years. A core of rock and sediment drilled from the bottom of Lake Chala, a picturesque crater lake ...

The asteroid — which was initially discovered in December 2024 — is large enough to destroy a whole city, according to scientists Toria Sheffield joined the PEOPLE editorial staff in 2024. Her work as ...