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Artist's concept of the Earth 5–7.5 billion years from now, when the Sun has become a red giant. While the future cannot be predicted with certainty, present understanding in various scientific fields allows for the prediction of some far-future events, if only in the broadest outline.
6 See also. 7 References ... at least 0.8 billion years and possibly as long as 1.2 billion years from ... be delayed until 2 billion years in the future if the ...
Of the additional 1.9 billion people projected between 2020 and 2050, 1.2 billion will be added in Africa, 0.7 billion in Asia and zero in the rest of the world. Africa's share of global population is projected to grow from 17% in 2020 to 25% in 2050 and 38% by 2100, while the share of Asia will fall from 60% in 2020 to 55% in 2050 and 45% in 2100.
All Tomorrows ends with a picture of the book's in-universe author, an alien researcher, holding a billion-year-old human skull and writing that all posthuman species disappeared a billion years in the future, for unknown reasons. The author goes on to state that mankind's story was always about the lives of humans themselves, not major wars ...
Geologists modeled the last billion years of Earth's tectonic plate evolution in unprecedented detail, then animated it in a mesmerizing video. Watch the last billion years of Earth's tectonic ...
However, as the Sun grows gradually hotter (over millions of years), Earth may become too hot for life as early as one billion years from now. [208] [209] [210] 1.3 billion Various It is estimated that all eukaryotic life will die out due to carbon dioxide starvation. Only prokaryotes will remain. [207] 7.59 billion David Powell
Visual representation of the Logarithmic timeline in the scale of the universe. This timeline shows the whole history of the universe, the Earth, and mankind in one table. . Each row is defined in years ago, that is, years before the present date, with the earliest times at the top of the ch
Known affectionately to scientists as the "boring billion," there was a seemingly endless period in the world's history when the length of a day stayed put. The time when a day on Earth was just ...