If humans were to die out tomorrow, how long would it take for nature to take over and overgrow most traces of our existence? After, like, 10,000 years, would you have to undertake an archaeological ...

Could Earth have hosted an advanced civilization before humans? This intriguing question is at the heart of the Silurian Hypothesis, a theory that challenges our understanding of Earth’s history. By ...

It feels like a massive challenge to find even a single square inch of the planet that hasn’t been touched […] ...

In his wonderfully titled 2007 best-seller, The World Without Us, author Alan Weisman pondered what would happen to Earth without humans. If we were not around to maintain them, how soon would our ...