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On New Years' Day, several Stanford scientists joined CBS' Scott Pelley on "60 Minutes" to discuss the mass extinction crisis. No one had any good news.

Stanford Scientists Warn That Civilization as We Know It Will End in “Next Few Decades”

By Maggie Harrison Dupré

According to 130,000 years' worth of mammalian food webs and extinction patterns, we're in the midst of a mass biodiversity crisis. Very chill.

The Entire Food Chain Has Started Collapsing, Scientists Warn

By Maggie Harrison Dupré

Modern climate change will likely take place over a shorter period of time than previous extinction events, leaving species with far less time to adapt.

Scientists Warn of Devastating Mass Extinction Event Caused by Climate Change

By Maggie Harrison Dupré

Scientists identified alarming parallels between the conditions that led to a horrific mass extinction event and the impacts of modern-day climate change.

Scientists Alarmed by Telltale Sign of Global Mass Extinction

By Dan Robitzski

Oceanic life is fleeing the increasingly-hot equator for more hospitable water, and a mass extinction event is likely to follow.

Scientists: Mass Extinction Is Coming as Organisms Flee the Equator

By Dan Robitzski

According to a new study, a supernova some 65 light-years from Earth caused a mass extinction event during the Late Devonian period, 359 million years ago.

Science & Energy

Scientists: Exploding Star Likely Caused Mass Extinction on Earth

By Victor Tangermann

mass extinction climate change carbon dioxide gas emissions

By 2100, Our Carbon Usage May Be Enough to Trigger a 10,000-Year-Long Ecological Disaster

60% of Primates Are at Risk of Extinction, and Humans Are to Blame

Science & Energy

60% of Primates Are at Risk of Extinction, and Humans Are to Blame

By Patrick Caughill

Elon Musk: We Must Leave Earth For One Critical Reason

Elon Musk: We Must Leave Earth For One Critical Reason

By Jolene Creighton

Research Says That, Meteor Impact or Not, Dinosaurs Would Still Be Extinct

Research Says That, Meteor Impact or Not, Dinosaurs Would Still Be Extinct

By Cecille De Jesus

Why We May Owe Our Existence to Cosmic Expansion

Why We May Owe Our Existence to Cosmic Expansion

By Todd Jaquith

Uncovering the Formation (and Extinction) of Life on Earth

From Quarks to Quasars

Uncovering the Formation (and Extinction) of Life on Earth

By Jean McKinney