Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. Heavy equipment working near dry brush sparked a destructive wildfire near Riverside, Calif., in September 2024. AP Photo/Eric ...

More than 1,550 marine species are currently at risk of extinction. Human activity is wreaking havoc on the state of the oceans around the world -- especially on marine life, according to the ...

More than 800,000 km2 of the Arctic were affected by human activity in 2013, according to an analysis of satellite-derived data on artificial light at night. On average, 85% of the light-polluted ...

A recent study led by the Institute of Atmospheric Physics at the Chinese Academy of Sciences sheds new light on how human activities have altered the composition of the atmosphere over time, ...

If you liked this story, share it with other people. The combined effects of humanity’s actions are making ecosystems less resistant to change, and threatening the vital ecosystem services humanity ...

The study, in which the Biodiversity and Evolution Research Group of the UPV/EHU’s Faculty of Science and Technology participated, was carried out within the framework of the international DarkDivNet ...

An E.P.A. site listing the causes of climate change no longer includes the main one: human activity. By Lisa Friedman The Environmental Protection Agency has quietly removed the fact that human ...

Wildfires are becoming increasingly destructive across the U.S., as the country is seeing in 2024. Research shows wildfires are up to four times larger and three times more frequent than they were in ...