Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. Human-wildlife overlap is projected to increase across more than half of all lands around the globe by 2070. The main driver of ...

Population ecology is the study of how populations — of plants, animals, and other organisms — change over time and space and interact with their environment. Populations are groups of organisms of ...

COLUMBUS, Ohio – Tracking coyote movement in metropolitan areas shows the animals spend lots of time in natural settings, but a new study suggests the human element of city life has a bigger impact ...

Mount Kilimanjaro, as seen from Kenya (Wikimedia Commons/Sergey Pesterev) (CN) — An explosion of the human population around Mount Kilimanjaro, Africa’s tallest mountain, over the past 100 years has ...

We're in the midst of the Earth’s sixth mass extinction crisis. Harvard biologist E. O. Wilson estimated that 30,000 species per year (or three species per hour) are being driven to extinction.

An archaeological study of human settlement during the Final Palaeolithic revealed that populations in Europe did not decrease homogenously during the last cold phase of the Ice Age. Significant ...