Imagine a country with deep political divisions, where different groups don't trust each other and violence seems likely. Now ...

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.

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 ...

Now, DNA from two 7,000-year-old mummies has revealed a truth: a lost human lineage once lived here, isolated from the rest of the world for tens of thousands of years. Unlike other ancient ...

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 ...

Penguin memes. Images of the flightless birds have ... protests” on Heard Island and McDonald Islands, “as the population rises up” against Mr. Trump’s imposition of across-the-board ...

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 ...

The interconnectedness of forest ecosystems, avian populations, and local human communities makes this an urgent area for surveillance. “The study aims to develop a real-time surveillance model ...