The origins and migrations of modern humans around the world are a hot topic of debate. Genetic analyses have pointed to ...

Under Trump's budget law, food assistance for refugees will be sliced. The change is sowing fear, uncertainty and a struggle ...

Migratory birds, sea turtles and salmon have something in common: every year, they return to their birthplaces to reproduce. A study now published in the journal Science Advances shows that Atlantic ...

If the route between the two major North American ice sheets didn’t fully open until about 13,000 years ago, how did early Homo sapiens travel from Alaska down into the Americas and even to ...

New research suggests the origins of modern humans may have begun by the sea in southern Africa 70,000 years ago.

Long before there were maps or names for continents, a handful of people stood at the edge of the world. Picture them on a ...

With an administration committed to ignoring climate change, it's time for rational people in Seattle to prepare for a coming influx of people in search of lower temperatures, Jon Talton writes.

Stone tools reveal that the First Americans followed a coastal route from East Asia, linking both sides of the Pacific during the Ice Age.

Members of a research crew on Seal Island rejoiced in the puffins’ comeback, but worried about the impacts of climate change ...

Humans likely left a lot of archaeological evidence along the Bering Land Bridge when they crossed from Asia to Alaska during the last ice age. But will we ever be able to dive down to examine it?