In green areas, human population density and species richness will decrease; in pink areas, human population density will decrease, while species richness will increase. Ma et al., 2024, CC BY-ND.

While most estimates place the current human population at around 8.2 billion, a new study suggests we might be vastly underrepresenting rural areas.

Other populations have become cloistered thanks to insular cultural or religious practices. As a result, the genetic ...

Neanderthals may not have truly gone extinct but instead may have been absorbed into the modern human population. That's one of the implications of a new study, which finds modern human DNA may ...

Bobcats, extirpated from Ohio by 1855, have returned due to increasing forest cover. Some of the most iconic mammals on Earth ...

A lost chapter in human evolution has been revealed after an analysis of modern DNA found that we come from not one but two ancestral populations—ones that drifted apart and later reconnected ...

Japan's population has been shrinking for 15 years, with huge implications for the country's economy, national defense, and culture. Now, policymakers are working to boost birth rates.

While most estimates place the current human population at around 8.2 billion, a new study suggests we might be vastly underrepresenting rural areas. By analyzing 300 rural dam projects across 35 ...

The top map shows areas with projected increasing human-wildlife overlap by 2070. In orange areas, human population density will increase, while species richness – the number of species present – will ...

Other populations have become cloistered thanks to insular cultural or religious practices. As a result, the genetic diversity of our species has declined over the past 50 millennia.

As the world’s population grows, contact between humans and wildlife will increase in more than half of Earth’s land areas. A new study shows where the largest changes will occur.