Jef Akst was managing editor of The Scientist, where she started as an intern in 2009 after receiving a master’s degree from Indiana University in April 2009 studying the mating behavior of seahorses.

Calm gray wolf. Image by Robert Larsson via Unsplash. As human populations grow and more people explore natural areas, wildlife is being pushed out of its natural habitats. Scientists have found that ...

Tiger recovery is gaining ground in India despite the country’s large human population, intense land-use pressures 11 and the growing effects of wildlife hunting 12. Dealing with such diverse ...

Back then, it was a savannah that early human populations settled in to take advantage of the favorable farming conditions. Among them was a mysterious people who lived in what is now southwestern ...

While their relatives spread around the world and mixed with many different human populations and species, the people living at Takarkori remained isolated. It was not until the Sahara Desert became a ...

We’ve listed the most endangered animals due to human activity. Human population growth is damaging a variety of environments. For example, the agriculture business is a significant contributor to ...

An archaeological study of human settlement during the Final Palaeolithic revealed that populations in Europe did not decrease homogenously during the last cold phase of the Ice Age. Significant ...

and have no human population. The extremely remote islands, which are located in the southwest Indian Ocean about halfway between Australia and South Africa, are home only to a large populations ...

If you’ve been on the internet this past week, you undoubtedly know that controversy was just kicked up a notch by the Studio Ghibli memes — pictures cribbing ... and even outright steals from actual ...

Donald Trump declared on Wednesday that the US would apply reciprocal tariffs to several countries and this list included the uninhabited Antarctic islands. Trump has placed tariffs on the uninhabited ...