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SCIENCE

Ancient mass extinction shows how Earth turned into a super-greenhouse

Global warming is causing forest die-offs today, just as it did during the Permian-Triassic extinction event INA FASSBENDER/AFP via Getty…

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WORLD

Shielding wildlife from trade-driven extinction — Global Issues

Originally conceived in 1963 at a meeting of the International Union for Conservation of Nature, the Convention entered into force…

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SCIENCE

Why avoiding a sixth mass extinction is easier than it sounds

Could you run for 100 hours this year? How about just doing a little more than 15 minutes each day?…

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SCIENCE

No, the dire wolf has not been brought back from extinction

Romulus and Remus are genetically modified grey wolves Colossal Biosciences A company called Colossal Biosciences says it has revived an…

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SCIENCE

‘World’s first de-extinction’: Dire wolves are back after 12,500 years of extinction

Dire wolves went extinct around 12,500 years ago. Now, thanks to genetic engineering, they’re back in what the scientists have…

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SCIENCE

Are we really doomed? An entertaining guide to humanity’s extinction

The future of Earth looks bleak, but we have the capacity to change course Shutterstock/Liu zishan The Decline and Fall…

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SCIENCE

Neanderthal ‘population bottleneck’ around 110,000 years ago may have contributed to their extinction

Neanderthals may have been headed toward their demise much earlier than experts previously thought, new research suggests. In the study,…

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