Amphibians are dying out like crazy, and frogs and salamanders may be largely extinct by the end of the twenty-first century. Imagine an animal that …

- Annalee Newitz

Eventually, humans invented agriculture, which could be understood as a way of turning the natural world into a tool for our use. There's evidence th…

- Annalee Newitz

The early Triassic was a period when the planet was recovering from the worst mass extinction it had ever known - that was the end Permian extinction…

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If we return abruptly to a Miocene-like climate, it's reasonable to think that we would experience a lot of extinctions, and maybe even a mass extinc…

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The fact is that humans have been shaping the genetics of what they eat for thousands of years. Genetic engineering simply speeds up the process that…

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To be fair, if we are having a mass extinction, we're in the early stages of it. I think it's knowing facts like that which has made me less fearful …

- Annalee Newitz

In fact, the early demographer Thomas Malthus believes that the only way the human population would ever check itself was by running headlong into a …

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I try to be realistic and pragmatic. I have a lot of hope for humanity as a species, but obviously as individuals we can be extremely flawed. We may …

- Annalee Newitz

There are plenty of publicly-funded organizations and nonprofits that are trying to develop GMO crops that could help feed people in developing natio…

- Annalee Newitz