The term “mass extinction” conjures up apocalyptic images of the world coming to an end, but a massive event like this can be a much slower process than many people realize. By definition, a mass ...

With its origins in the late 18 th and early 19 th century, the question of what drove the late Quaternary megafauna extinctions remains one of science’s most enduring and hotly contested debates.

St. Paul Island, Alaska, is famous for its late-surviving population of woolly mammoth. The puzzle of mid-Holocene extinction is solved via multiple independent paleoenvironmental proxies that tightly ...

Occidental has bought Holocene, marking the second direct air capture startup the fossil fuel company has bought in two years. The deal was executed through Oxy Low Carbon Ventures, a subsidiary of ...

Occidental Petroleum subsidiary Oxy Low Carbon Ventures has acquired Holocene Climate Corp., Knoxville, Tenn. Holocene holds liquid, low-temperature direct air capture (DAC) technology that Occidental ...

Lori Guetre, vice president and head of business development for Carbon Engineering (CE), from left, Michael Avery, president and general manager for Direct Air Capture (DAC) for North America at ...

A Texas-based "de-extinction" company has brought the dire wolf back from its 10,000-year hiatus—or so it says. Colossal Biosciences, which has been committed to reviving extinct species since its ...

In a massive achievement within the world of science, Colossal Biosciences has reportedly revived a long-extinct wolf species last seen during the Late Pleistocene and Early Holocene periods: I.E., ...

Most conservation biologists today think humanity has already entered the sixth mass extinction phase due to the acceleration of species extinction. The sixth mass extinction will be the first to ...

This event is closed to the public. One of the most important ways that humans have impacted biodiversity in the long run is through reducing the abundance of megafauna (animals over ca. 45 kg/100 lbs ...

The Woolly Mammoth, an extinct species of mammoth that lived from the Middle Pleistocene to the Holocene epoch, is on its way to being brought back by a group of scientists at Colossal Biosciences, a ...