SpaceX CEO Elon Musk said, "The future of humanity is going to bifurcate in two directions: Either it's going to become ...

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Life on Earth has faced catastrophic events before, but certain extinction-level threats could completely erase humanity.

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Scientists debunked a widely accepted mass extinction of 90 plant species in Ecuador’s Centinela cloud forests in the 1980s, ...

A new study from a team of researchers at Portland State University compares human-caused greenhouse gas emissions to past ...

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