Human biology evolved for a world of movement, nature, and short bursts of stress—not the constant pressure of modern life.

Historians and geologists view natural and human history from two differing perspectives, according to Dipesh Chakrabarty, a professor of history and South Asian languages and civilizations at the ...

By analyzing Escherichia coli (E. coli) genomes, researchers have shown that antimicrobial resistant bacteria and the genes ...

Human health and the environment are inextricably linked at local, national and global scales. Exposure to environmental issues, such as pollution, climate change, extreme heat events and poor water ...

A plastic bag blows over the monk seal pup named Koalani at Kaimana Beach. In the past 30 years, 75% of new human pathogens have originated from animals, according to Vezeau, and many common causes of ...

The idea that extreme climate change could one day cause a mass extinction and end the human dominance is not as farfetched ...

For most of us, cities have become the natural habitat. But according to researchers Daniel Longman and Colin Shaw, our ...

As humans, we may owe our ability to adapt to new situations and environments to our earliest ancestors. New evidence unearthed at the Oldupai Gorge, a UNESCO World Heritage site in Tanzania known as ...

The EU Supply Chain Law has been significantly watered down by the EU Parliament under pressure from industry.

On July 28, member states of the U.N. General Assembly voted overwhelmingly to adopt a historic resolution that recognizes that a clean, healthy and sustainable environment is a human right. While the ...

By Mike DiGirolamo Sarah Goodyear, Doug Gordon and Aaron Naparstek realized that no one was discussing the many cultural factors that have played a role in humanity’s car dependency, or the negative ...

On 14 December 2023, following several rounds of inter-institutional negotiations, the European Council of the European Union (Council) and the European Parliament (Parliament) announced that a ...