Scientists study how ecosystems bounce back after human absence to understand the long-term impact of human activity and how resilient nature truly is. [post-human earth] [life after humans ...

Before-and-after photos from the 1940s to the 2000s highlight the unmistakable impact humans have had on Earth. Source: NASA Alaska's Muir Glacier pictured about 60 years apart shows how much ice ...

After a year without people, the sky would be bluer, the air clearer. The wind and the rain would scrub clean the surface of the Earth; all the smog and dust that humans make would be gone.

Reptilian menaces called Silurians evolved on Earth before humankind ... Artifacts of human or other industrial civilizations are unlikely to be found on a planet's surface after about 4 ...

About 74,000 years ago, Sumatra’s Mount Toba experienced a super-eruption, one of the largest in Earth’s ... show humans were occupying the site before and after the volcano erupted more ...

It may not be the robots that will rule Earth when humanity goes extinct ... emerge as the planet’s next intelligent species after humans,” he continued. “Some individuals even escape ...