In this excerpt from "Sink or Swim," author Susannah Fisher explores the future of human migration, and what that will look ...

Just over 500 years ago, on 3 August 1492, Christopher Columbus, the admiral from Genoa underwritten by Ferdinand II and Isabella I of Spain, set off on the first of 4 trips across the Atlantic. He ...

Climate change is making some regions less habitable for humans, whether by raising sea levels, hurting crop yields, or intensifying droughts, storms, and wildfires. Yet, if you ask people why they're ...

In Laos, archaeologists uncovered fossils suggesting that Homo sapiens left Africa 20,000 years earlier than previously believed. The remains, dated to between 86,000 and 68,000 years old, challenge ...

Pew Research Center conducted this study to understand how parents of kids ages 12 and younger approach their children’s technology use and screen time. For this analysis, we surveyed 3,054 parents ...

Guagnin, M., Shipton, C., Al-Jibreen, F. et al. Monumental rock art illustrates that humans thrived in the Arabian Desert during the Pleistocene-Holocene transition ...

In 2015, approximately 1.5 million asylum seekers — mostly from Syria, Afghanistan, Pakistan and Iraq — arrived in Europe to escape conflicts, political instability and poverty. While most European ...

STEVENS POINT − Portage County Health and Human Services is offering free flu vaccines for children from 9 a.m. to noon Oct. 18 at the Ruth Gilfry Center, 817 Whiting Ave. in Stevens Point, according ...

BECKLEY — How the tragedy of human trafficking touches Appalachia and what the world’s other rural communities are doing to address it will be among the topics when two members of a Raleigh County ...

SPOKANE, Wash. - Numerica employees dropped off 600 pounds of hygiene products Thursday to Spokane non-profit Project Beauty Share to support the charity's first Hope 4 Kids Hygiene Drive. 4 News Now ...

Through a Training of Trainers (ToT) initiative, the programme led to the development of local strategies for disaster risk reduction and equipped national and local representatives with essential ...

ATLANTA — As autumn begins, Georgia skies become a busy highway for millions of migrating birds, heading south. Dr. Benjamin Freeman, a biologist at the Georgia Tech School of Biological Sciences, ...