Although biologists have studied seasonal processes for centuries, we know surprisingly little about the impacts of shifting ...

Anthropologists have examined the societal consequences of global glacier loss. In an important contribution from the social sciences, Rice University anthropologists Cymene Howe and Dominic Boyer ...

A new study, led by San Diego Zoo Wildlife Alliance, Smithsonian's National Zoo & Conservation Biology Institute, and ...

Around 66 million years ago, a six-mile-wide asteroid hit Earth, triggering the extinction of three-quarters of all living ...

Their behavior isn’t just putting themselves at risk — getting close to a bear or a bison is never a good idea — but is also ...

Since 2000, the United Nations (UN) recognizes May 22 as the International Day for Biological Diversity, in hopes of promoting international cooperation and conversation surrounding biodiversity ...

On a shrub-covered dune in San Francisco’s Presidio, biologist Durrell Kapan and a group of volunteers huddle around a tiny plastic condiment container placed delicately amid a cluster of ...

The Trump extinction proposal: The Trump proposal would allow the activities that endangered hellbender habitat ... Habitat loss and fragmentation and vehicle strikes due mostly to human development ...

The United Nations human rights office in Colombia says that five Indigenous groups in northern Colombia’s storied mountain ...

The results reveal a hitherto unknown effect of human activities on biodiversity. In regions with little human impact, natural habitats contain on average one third of the potential species, mainly ...

To address this issue, a human activity recognition method based on scattering separation using multifrequency radar data is proposed. First, the multifrequency echo data of human activity collected ...

Rising sea levels and subsiding shorelines are putting New Zealand's coastal communities at risk. A new study revealed that human activities heighten and expedite the risks of sinking cities. As ...