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

The annual Great Migration of millions of wildebeest and zebras across the plains of the Serengeti is one of the world’s ...

In March, Mexico & Central America correspondent Megan Janetsky received a panicked message from Suraiya Hussaini. She was ...

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 ...

A significant number of birds are expected to travel through the Chicago area on Tuesday night, prompting a migration alert. Birdcast, a website dedicated to tracking migrating birds and predicting ...

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 ...

Women in their 60s and 70s could theoretically one day give birth to genetically related children, according to scientists pioneering a breakthrough technique that converts DNA from skin cells into ...

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 ...

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 ...