ANCIENT Egypt, the Roman Empire, the Maya, China’s Qing dynasty – these civilizations all shone brightly in their time. Yet, in every case, the glory days were followed by societal collapse. This ...

A newly reconstructed rainfall record shows that prolonged drought, not societal collapse, reshaped Rapa Nui’s history.

In 1972, MIT predicted that society will collapse sometime within this century. A new study shows that we are on-track for that. In fact, they show that societal collapse could happen by 2040. This is ...

Adhering to the brand of bad faith agitprop that views — and damns — the world through a chosen narrow lens, The City Dark mounts a case for why “light pollution,” AKA artificial illumination, is a ...

Telegram founder Pavel Durov warned that France may experience a societal collapse if it continues down its current political trajectory of censorship and regulatory policies during an interview on ...

In “Goliath’s Curse,” Luke Kemp crunches the numbers to see exactly how far we are from the fate of once-great empires. A detail from Samuel Colman’s “The Edge of Doom” (1836-38).Credit...Samuel ...