READER QUESTION: If humans don’t die out in a climate apocalypse or asteroid impact in the next 10,000 years, are we likely to evolve further into a more advanced species than what we are at the ...

Research into how humans would cope with climate change or colonising other planets suggests we could develop webbed hands and feet Get email updates from our environment editor on green issues and ...

It was the muddy water that caught Stefan Talke’s eye. In the mid-2000s Talke was a postdoctoral scholar at Utrecht University, studying the river Ems that empties into the North Sea between Germany ...

Cancel culture may be warranted, but lasting behavior change is rarely built off shame-based approaches. Source: Shutterstock/iQoncept It’s Tuesday morning at 9:10 a.m. I’m sitting face to face with ...

A former NASA engineer explains how humans can alter Earth's orbit Massive asteroids and comets can be used to change Earth's orbit around the Sun Moving Earth could prevent it from being destroyed by ...

NARRATOR: This is Edna Bumcrank, she is rather old. But, of course, she hasn’t always been like this. I wouldn’t do that of I were you burglar, because… Yes! That is her. She is growing inside her mum ...

Current estimates of land-use change may be capturing only one-quarter of its true extent across the world, new research shows. The paper, published in Nature Communications, revises previous ...

In a fast-moving world, HR leaders and managers often assume that the workforce will push against change. But starting from this point can be counter-productive, argues Dr Leandro Herrero. One of the ...

There is clear evidence that technological change will be insufficient to meet UK and global climate goals on its own, leaving a vital role for consumer and business behaviour change. Indeed, most ...

Our planet has been warming rapidly since the dawn of the Industrial Revolution. The average temperature at the Earth's surface has risen about 1.1C since 1850, external. Furthermore, each of the last ...

On land, in the seas, in the sky, the devastating impact of humans on nature is laid bare in a compelling UN report. One million animal and plant species are now threatened with extinction. Nature ...

DNA from ancient fossils in southern China has revealed that Native Americans may have roots in East Asia. Scientists compared the genetic information of the Late Pleistocene era fossils to those from ...