Moments in human history are etched into the Earth. Now researchers are piecing together evidence of our impact on the planet ...

Humanity may not be extraordinary but rather the natural evolutionary outcome for our planet and likely others, according to ...

Climate change is not just an environmental issue but a challenge to human rights and justice as well, Chief Justice of India ...

A new study rewrites the story of human evolution, suggesting that intelligent life is not rare but a natural planetary ...

In a nutshell New research challenges the long-held belief that human evolution required improbable “lucky breaks,” ...

A new theory suggests windows of opportunity, not a series of improbable events may have helped humans gain a foothold in the ...

Heavy metal contamination in Yangshan Port raises concerns for seafood safety, with arsenic and mercury posing health risks.

Scientists have revealed a new model which suggests humanity is the "natural evolutionary outcome" for our planet and is not ...

Initially developed by theoretical physicist Brandon Carter in 1983, the “hard steps” model argues that our evolutionary ...

Roughly 300,000 years ago, our species first appeared on the African landscape before spreading globally and coming to ...

Extensive evidence, including global temperature and sea ice data, shows Earth's climate is changing due to human activity.

Throughout Earth's history, ice caps have been very rare, but a model of the past 420 million years suggests an explanation ...