Findings published in the journal Astrobiology reveal that planet Earth should be able to support life for another 1.7 billion years - based on our distance from the sun and temperatures at which it is possible for the planet to have liquid water. Eventually the Sun will expand as it dies, and the seas will all boil away.
Of, course, if you are interested in human life, Andrew Rushby, from University of East Anglia's school of Environmental Sciences has this for you:
"Of course conditions for humans and other complex life will become impossible much sooner - and this is being accelerated by anthropogenic climate change. Humans would be in trouble with even a small increase in temperature, and near the end only microbes in niche environments would be able to endure the heat.
More information at Science Daily.
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