From climate change to species loss and pollution, humans have etched their impact on Earth with such strength and permanence since the middle of the 20th century that a special team of scientists ...

Humans pumped and displaced so much groundwater in just two decades that we shifted the tilt of Earth's axis ... could contribute to polar motion, the impact of groundwater depletion was unknown.

Around 66 million years ago, a six-mile-wide asteroid hit Earth, triggering the extinction of three-quarters of all living ...

Although biologists have studied seasonal processes for centuries, we know surprisingly little about the impacts of shifting ...

Landscapes with heavy human pressure contain barely one-fifth of the species they could support according to a survey of plant communities.

As the Earth continues to shift in response to human activity, these changes impact sea levels, climate systems, and the planet’s rotation itself. “Among climate-related causes, the ...

Weather-Fox What Earth Would Look Like If Humans Disappeared Tomorrow Posted: March 17, 2025 | Last updated: March 19, 2025 If humans vanished from the planet nature would slowly reclaim cities ...

Mostafa Kiani Shahvandi, a co-author of the study, told Live Science that the effects of human actions on Earth’s polar motion are now greater than the impact of natural processes like glacial ...