Rural Pine River columnists talk about the rapid decline in plants, animals and insects that adversely affects our planet.

In fact, the last great extinction event in the history of life on Earth could be our fault. Human activities such as habitat destruction, pollution, climate change, and overexploitation of species ...

Earth responded to its most severe past warming event by evolving a new and bizarre type of photosynthesis that allowed a ...

Everyone knows that dinosaurs are extinct, and most people have some idea about how it might have occurred. But the exact periods in history when it happened are less well known. Was it a single ...

The Cretaceous-Paleogene mass extinction, occurring approximately 66 million years ago, represents one of the most dramatic biotic crises in Earth’s history. It is marked by the abrupt disappearance ...

In school, we learned about the asteroid that wiped out an estimated 76% of all creatures. Scientists now call this the fifth ...

The Triassic–Jurassic transition represents one of Earth’s most profound episodes of biological upheaval, characterised by extensive volcanic activity, rapid climatic shifts and cascading ...