Humans affect the environment in positive and negative ways. Cutting down trees and littering have a negative effect on animals and plants. Protecting endangered species and cleaning lakes and ...

Environmental ethics applies moral thinking to the natural world and the relationship between humans and the earth. Moral reasoning is not a substitute for science, but it provides a powerful ...

Activists and ordinary citizens defending their rights to land and the environment face intimidation, legal harassment, and deadly violence. Human Rights Watch champions human rights law to force ...

the period during which human activity has been the dominant influence on climate and the environment. Domesticated animals now make up the majority of animal species on land, shaping the natural ...

Environmental flexibility gives animals the opportunity to adjust to changes during their own lifetime. Aa Aa Aa Early humans did not understand the mechanisms of inheritance, of DNA, or of the ...

In a region of eastern Africa known as the Cradle of Humankind, archeologists have unearthed an ancient site that they say points to early humans’ ability to adapt to sudden environmental shifts and ...