Archaeology’s Golden Opportunity: Transforming the Science of Global Environmental Change

Conservationists set up a colony of white storks in southern England, touching off a debate over whether they truly belong there.

Defining the Anthropocene as a formal epoch with a fixed stratigraphic marker and global start date remains contentious. This Comment summarizes the arguments for a time transgressive extended Anthrop...

The rejection of the proposal for Anthropocene as a formal epoch of the Geological Time Scale has attracted wide interest in the stratigraphic aspects of the debate. Here, we clarify the distinction b...

Actionable goals are needed to guide the world towards what needs to happen most quickly: shifting economies to clean energy sources.

Efforts by researchers at SUNY College of Environmental Science and Forestry (ESF) to restore the American chestnut tree to the American landscape took a significant leap forward with an approved desi...

The rise of America’s largest native fruit

Cambridge Core - Ethics - Ethics and Planetary Boundaries

Scientists are racing to conserve what remains of these majestic animals’ genetic diversity

Conservatives who critique land acknowledgments aren’t acting in good faith, but they do have a point.

Characterizing the factors that have shaped linguistic diversity is fundamental for understanding human history, culture, and cognition. In this study, we combined statistical and social computational...

Cambridge Core - Environmental Policy, Economics and Law - Ethics and Planetary Boundaries

Agency drops attempt to mitigate risk in favor of outright prohibition on working with most Chinese research institutions

The three earliest continent-wide cultures in the Americas focused on the largest prey, like mammoths and giant ground sloths.

Analysis of 128 high-coverage Indigenous American genomes shows extensive diversity shaped by several South American dispersals, ancient Australasian admixture, archaic introgression and long-term…

Last summer, a woman walking in a nature park near Utrecht, Netherlands, saw what she thought was a big, playful dog hurtling toward her two young boys in the distance.

Abstract. Humans shape landscapes through the management of organisms and ecosystems, either degrading or sustaining biodiversity. Despite their essential

Forests benefit everyone – but farmers carry the risk.

Ecology is not yet ready for AI—and why that matters

Global risks are too great for markets alone to curb. Political considerations must come before economic ones.

Critics say bill would weaken U.S. science by cutting flows of ideas and talent

As one of the main causes of habitat loss, agricultural cropland expansion is a major threat to biodiversity. We analyze past and anticipated futur...