Climate change and habitat loss could cause more than 500 bird species to go extinct in the next 100 years, researchers from ...

Human nature has been reconceived by ecology's parent science, evolutionary biology. Homo sapiens is but one evolved species among myriads of others with no claim to special privilege.

In the race to save birdlife around the world, time is running out—and doing everything right still won’t be enough. Despite global conservation goals and urgent policies aimed at protecting nature, ...

Designating areas as protected spaces for wildlife is a common strategy for preserving biodiversity, but heavy human development around those areas may largely counteract the benefit of those ...

Estimated change in local species diversity caused by human land use changes since 1500 A.D ... The researchers compiled the results of 378 published ecology studies of over 11,000 sites ...

Most animals have brains in proportion to their body size – species with larger bodies often have larger brains. But the human brain is almost six times bigger than expected for our bodies. This is ...

Bird species' tolerance to human pressures and associations with population change. Global Ecology and Biogeography , 2024; DOI: 10.1111/geb.13816 Cite This Page : ...

The Human Ecology Building was designed for a variety of departments in order to facilitate collaboration in a healthy and creative space. The new 89,000-square-foot facility features high-tech ...

More information: Dennis Joshy et al, Accelerated cell-type-specific regulatory evolution of the human brain, Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences (2024). DOI: 10.1073/pnas.2411918121 ...

Programs in the human sciences within the College of Natural Sciences are housed in the School of Human Ecology, which includes two academic departments, as well as the Division of Textiles and ...