The new Atlas of the Human Planet reveals 50 years of global population growth and urbanization trends, providing insights into how cities and rural areas have evolved. This data offers vital tools ...

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 ...

Researchers have developed a model that captures the dynamics of human dispersal across the continent during the last Ice Age in unprecedented detail. An interdisciplinary research team from the ...

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 ...

Scientists have uncovered a surprising new picture of human origins that challenges the long-held idea of a single ancestral population in Africa. By analyzing genetic data from diverse modern African ...

Peak Human is coming, and it’s coming fast. As I wrote in the previous issue of Faster, Please!, today’s Millennials and younger Gen Xers — setting aside any huge longevity leaps for the Boomers — ...

An interdisciplinary research team from the University of Cologne's Institute of Geophysics and Meteorology and the Department of Prehistoric Archaeology has developed a new model, the "Our Way Model.