When the volcanic island of Surtsey rose from the North Atlantic Ocean in 1963, it offered scientists a once-in-a-lifetime opportunity to observe how life takes hold on brand-new and barren land. For ...

For several months of the year, residents of wildfire-prone areas know they should expect poor air quality. They put on masks, stay indoors when it gets bad and avoid breathing in smoke or fine ...

Saskatchewan’s pronghorn population “live at the northern edge of their range” and migrate seasonally in order to find food ...

Climate change is reshaping migration patterns worldwide, with disasters now being the leading cause of internal displacements. In 2022, 32.6 million new internal human displacements were caused by ...

Tsukuba, Japan—Cooperation is fundamental to human societies. Building on the hypothesis that heightened environmental variability in Africa during the Middle Stone Age influenced behavioral evolution ...

In her book The Next Great Migration: The Beauty and Terror of Life on The Move, Sonia Shah makes an argument that migration is central to life. As we come to the end ...