In The Decline and Fall of the Human Empire, science writer Henry Gee considers how long we’ve got, and how we can extend our ...

Photographer Ed Burtynsky has been capturing the impact of humans on Earth for over 40 years. Here are ten of his most striking shots, from a shipwrecking yard in Bangladesh to rivers of iron ...

and the solid waste is shipped off to burn up on reentry through Earth's atmosphere. Urine is another story. Most of the water on board is reused. Water is a precious and heavy commodity. Humans ...

But once plastic gets to a sorting facility, most items contain too many toxic chemicals ... showing that a material like plastic is causing great harm to human health and the earth’s environment, it ...

More than a century of habitat destruction, pollution, the spread of invasive species, overharvest from the wild, climate change, population growth and other human activities ... are thus the ...

and acceptance of what we truly are,” we may yet turn earth into a “permanent paradise for human beings, or the strong beginnings of one.” We’re not ants, and we can do what ants can’t ...

Why do humans have canine teeth ... the two seem to have stopped interbreeding after that. Most researchers consider the Neanderthals, who went extinct about 40,000 years ago, a separate species.

The Last of Us is one of the most gripping post-apocalyptic dramas ... the duo faces both monstrous infected and dangerous humans. This further forms a deep bond through their struggles. The creators ...

Everything we care about is in danger, and Common Dreams is fighting back by exposing their lies and corruption and lifting up the voices of those working to stop them. If you believe in our work, we ...

A robot dog was used to flip a switch at a nuclear site - as it was too unsafe for workers. The machine - named Spot - was used to turn on a crane in order to pick up containers of waste at the ...