Cosmic events like asteroid impacts or supernovae could destroy life on Earth. Our Sun is gradually getting hotter, eventually boiling Earth's oceans. Life on Earth is not permanent; it will end due ...

What if it were possible to take a very slow geological process, one that takes thousands of years in nature, and speed it up so that it happens within hours, in order to slow the rate of global ...

Get your news from a source that’s not owned and controlled by oligarchs. Sign up for the free Mother Jones Daily. It begins each day at nightfall. As the light disappears, billions of zooplankton, ...