“Every foundational sector of the material production system of human civilization – which now operates at a planetary scale – is experiencing a phase transition, which points to total ...

The cost of increasing societal complexity Gelis-Filho also thinks lessons from the rise and fall of human civilizations can be applied to this astrobiological context.

The award-winning science writer Peter Brannen makes the case for an often vilified compound in “The Story of CO2 Is the Story of Everything.” ...

Civilization on Earth will probably be killed off by one of three ways, scientists have concluded. Using math models, a team from the University of Rochester in New York, calculated what would ...

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A harrowing new climate change report warns we may be on the way to extinction, claiming there is a "high likelihood" human civilization will come to an end by 2050 unless action is taken on ...

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