New research indicates that humans shaped their environments through hunting and controlled use of fire tens of thousands of years before agriculture emerged. According to the study’s co-authors, the ...
It might be less visible than dwindling lion populations or vanishing pandas, but the quiet crisis of small mammal extinction ...
To mark Earth Overshoot Day (August 2nd — the earliest to date) — the date when humanity’s annual demand on nature exceeds what Earth can regenerate over the entire year — international research ...
China’s average ecological footprint has doubled since the 1960s and now demands more than 2 times what the country’s ecosystems can sustainably supply, a new report finds. China’s average ecological ...
The current ecological crises facing our planet are extensively the result of a human behavioral crisis, according to a 2023 paper appearing in the journal Science Progress. The paper cites economic ...
A continuously rising demand for natural resources and increasing levels of CO2 in the atmosphere by a growing population are putting tremendous pressures on our planet s biodiversity, and are ...
Everybody knows how big his actual footprint is, but until a friend sent me the link to http://www.ecofoot.org, I was blissfully ignorant of the size of my ecological ...