Human-caused climate change can further exacerbate the situation by pushing animal populations to move into different areas, and by compromising the health of animals through reduced range of ...

The Human Impacts Database provides information ranging from global plastic production (4 x 10 11 kg/year), to the total standing livestock population (4.6 x 10^10 animals), to global annual mean ...

Areport released last month finds that some human impacts on the natural world are slowing, and others have even started to decline. The report’s authors cite this as evidence for a conservation ...

Scientists are gathering more evidence on which factor has more of an impact on human wellbeing amid the aging process.

Of the brands tested, 90 percent of paper straws contained these chemicals, compared to 75 percent made of plastic and 40 percent of glass. They were not detected in any of the steel straws ...

Greg Bratman is the lead author of the paper, an assistant professor of environmental and forest sciences and the director of the Environment and Well-being Lab at the University of Washington.

Essentially, almost nothing happens in the environment without being touched by human hands, activities or ambitions. “We’re impacting every corner of the globe in some way,” says Shane.

Transmission occurs through human-related pathways, where people carry microbes on their skin, breath, and bodily fluids, significantly influencing indoor microbial diversity. Airborne transmission, ...

The total impact that humans have had on the environment may be hard to measure, but a new exhibition at the University of Massachusetts Amherst’s University Museum of Contemporary Art, running ...