and human population growth (e.g., how fast will the human population grow, and what does that mean for climate change, resource use, and biodiversity?). Studying population growth also helps ...

In “The Decline and Fall of the Human Empire,” Gee examines the many reasons why the human race finds itself in multiple ...

We're in the midst of the Earth’s sixth mass extinction crisis. Harvard biologist E. O. Wilson estimated that 30,000 species per year (or three species per hour) are being driven to extinction.

We've long assumed our species evolved from a tidy, single stream of ancestors. But life on Earth is never quite so ...

This event will be discussing the findings of the report and the linkages between population growth, socioeconomic development and environmental change. The human population has experienced a ...

A novel genetic model suggests that the ancestors of modern humans came from two distinct populations that split and reconnected during our evolutionary history.

Human population growth and consumption, energy use, land use changes, and pollution are driving forces of global change. How do these factors impact ecological systems and human societies?

This increase can be clearly seen in a graph of human population. better health care so people are living longer new medicines are being developed so people don’t die of previously fatal ...