There's a longstanding attitude in many farming communities that trees and agriculture don't mix. But agroforestry—the ...

Pamela McElwee, a professor in the Department of Human Ecology at the Rutgers School of Environmental and Biological Sciences ...

Study reveals how human history—from Indigenous stewardship to colonization—shaped the genetic diversity of Brazil Nut trees ...

A new study led by UC Santa Cruz ecology and evolutionary biologist Malin Pinsky finds that temperature changes due to ...

Despite their reliance on human food, coyotes still hunt natural prey when available. Pocket gophers, a common rodent in the ...

A million years ago, researchers have found, an extinct species of human relatives known as Homo ... for animal carcasses to scavenge, for example. The hominins found the ponds and streams that ...

Freedom of speech is a bellwether: how any society tolerates those with minority, disfavored, or even obnoxious views will often speak to its performance on human rights more generally.

The 20,000-year-old fossilized bones of "Ushikawa Man," thought to be some of Japan's most ancient human fossils, are not what scientists believed they were, new research finds. Instead ...

When Homo sapiens appeared some 300,000 years ago, at least six other human species already shared the planet. Here, in the studio of paleoartist John Gurche, are model representations of those ...

On January 14, hippies and other counterculture participants swarmed to the polo grounds in San Francisco’s Golden Gate Park in a gathering called the Human Be-In. Timothy Leary advised ...

In a dark coincidence, the researchers point to California's current catastrophe as a timely example of their recently published findings. "In that publication, fairly incredibly, we use the example ...