As much as we might be ignoring climate change<\/a> as a society, there’s no doubt that the damage to the ozone layer is also having a big impact, most noticeably with the ice caps melting.<\/p>\n Scientists seem to be more focused on finding somewhere else to live than our own planet, with the recent Artemis II mission set to pave the way towards humans visiting Mars<\/a> in the future, a planet which Elon Musk<\/a> apparently wants us to live on.<\/p>\n It seems pretty clear that unless humans go through another period of evolution, the Earth will, at some point, become uninhabitable to us and a NASA supercomputer has given us a rough date for that.<\/p>\n According to<\/a> a study titled ‘The future lifespan of Earth\u2019s oxygenated atmosphere’, the fate of life on Earth<\/a> is tied directly to the lifespan and evolution of the Sun.<\/p>\n Over billions of years, the Sun will continue to expand<\/a> and emit more heat, slowly transforming Earth into an increasingly hostile environment<\/a>.<\/p>\n While we might joke about needing some warmer weather here in the UK, the heating of the planet could soon make it inhospitable, but the NASA supercomputer fortunately reckons that it might take until the year 1,000,002,021.<\/p>\n By that point, even the most resilient microorganisms won’t make it, as the oceans will have evaporated, the atmosphere will have thinned, and surface temperatures will make life impossible. But humans certainly won’t make it as long as that.<\/p>\n Rising temperatures, declining oxygen levels, and deteriorating air quality will likely be the end of our species on this planet at least, and we’re already starting to see signs of these changes across the Earth, suggesting that more struggles aren’t far away at all.<\/p>\n \u201cFor many years, the lifespan of Earth\u2019s biosphere has been discussed based on the steady brightening of the Sun,\u201d said Kazumi Ozaki, the study\u2019s lead author.<\/p>\n Before, Ozaki said estimates gave life around two billion years, but newer models pretty much cut that period in half.<\/p>\n \u201cIf true,\u201d he wrote: \u201cOne can expect atmospheric O\u2082 levels will also eventually decrease in the distant future.\u201d<\/p>\n In other words, anything that needs oxygen to survive will be gone in about a billion years but considering the current state of the world, it will feel like a miracle if our ancestors make it that far, as even our AI overlords might not be able to survive in a world without electricity.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"We’re probably more worried right now about the world ending than ever before but a NASA supercomputer has…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":890644,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[8],"tags":[728,874,70,16,15],"class_list":{"0":"post-890643","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-science","8":"tag-environment","9":"tag-nasa","10":"tag-science","11":"tag-uk","12":"tag-united-kingdom"},"share_on_mastodon":{"url":"https:\/\/pubeurope.com\/@uk\/116396073412603830","error":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/890643","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=890643"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/890643\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/890644"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=890643"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=890643"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=890643"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}![\"The](\"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/04\/aHR0cHM6Ly9ldS1pbWFnZXMuY29udGVudHN0YWNrLmNvbS92My9hc3NldHMvYmx0Y2Q3NGFjYzFkMGE5OWYzYS9ibHQzM2ZkMjkz.webp\"\/)
The melting of the ice caps could cause humanity a lot of problems ( Jeff Overs\/BBC News & Current Affairs via Getty Images)<\/p>\n![\"An](\"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/04\/aHR0cHM6Ly9ldS1pbWFnZXMuY29udGVudHN0YWNrLmNvbS92My9hc3NldHMvYmx0Y2Q3NGFjYzFkMGE5OWYzYS9ibHQ0ZGJlYTQy.webp\"\/)
An asteroid might destroy us long before then (Getty Stock)<\/p>\n