Future Human Survival

While very serious, the Coronavirus (COVID-19) pandemic virus that is currently sweeping across our planet will not end our civilisation. Th...

One day, as has happened many times before, a large asteroid thousands of metres in diameter will hit our planet. The result of the impact...

Opened in 2008, the Svalbard Global Seed Vault, located on the Norwegian island of Spitsbergen far north of the Arctic Circle, is the world...

Almost 56 million years ago the Earth's climate suffered a fast and significant warming. It's quite possible that an ancient industr...

For humans to live long-term in space we would need a healthy environment. This would mean somewhere spacious, with plenty of the comforts w...

There have been five major mass extinction events in Earth's past. During each one more than 70 percent of all species were wiped out.  ...

Climate change is considered the main threat to our civilisation. Over the life time of the human generation being born right now our planet...