Human extinction is the hypothetical end of the human species, either by population decline due to extraneous natural causes, such as an asteroid impact...

The Voluntary Human Extinction Movement (VHEMT) is an environmental movement that calls for all people to abstain from reproduction in order to cause the...

Holocene extinction, or Anthropocene extinction, is the ongoing extinction event caused by humans during the Holocene epoch. These extinctions span numerous...

risk of extinction—all largely as a result of human actions. Twenty-five percent of plant and animal species are threatened with extinction. In a subsequent...

could damage human well-being on a global scale, even endangering or destroying modern civilization. An event that could cause human extinction or permanently...

relative importance of human vs climatic factors in the extinctions has been the subject of long-running controversy. Major extinctions occurred in Australia-New...

De-extinction (also known as resurrection biology, or species revivalism) is the process of generating an organism that either resembles or is an extinct...

specific species extinguished by humans, as well as the ecologies surrounding prehistoric and near-present extinction events. The author received the Pulitzer...

Voluntary Human Extinction Movement and the Church of Euthanasia are well-known examples of social movements in favor of antinatalism and human extinction. Antinatalism...

Marine extinction intensity during Phanerozoic % Millions of years ago (H) K–Pg Tr–J P–Tr Cap Late D O–S An extinction event (also known as a mass extinction...