For 200 years, we've been warned of unchecked population growth and how it leads to environmental instability. On the other hand, today some countries face decreasing populations, alongside increasing ...

Human impacts can homogenize and simplify ecosystems, favoring communities that are no longer naturally coupled with (or reflective of) the background environmental regimes in which they are found.

The theory that water-breathing animals such as fish will shrink due to global warming has been called into question by a new study. The theory that water-breathing animals such as fish will shrink ...

China’s population has fallen after decades of sky-high growth. This major shift in the world’s most populous country would be a big deal by itself, but China’s hardly alone in its declining numbers: ...

The Toba eruption illustrates how a single natural disaster can have global ... survival is not guaranteed and that catastrophic environmental events can have long-lasting effects on population size, ...

New information about a rare bumblebee species last seen alive in 2006 has created a buzz among scientists who research ...

Syracuse, N.Y. – The impacts of Micron Technology’s immense chipmaking complex in the town of Clay would reverberate through Central New York for decades to come, the company’s draft environmental ...