It is what people call a collective action problem—how do individuals get motivated to think for the collective good. It is a ...

The World Around announced this year’s recipients of the Young Climate Prize, a biannual award program with mentoring for ...

The Casarabe society of pre-Columbian Amazonia engineered an advanced water management system, enabling year-round maize ...

An international team of researchers has recently discovered that an ancient civilisation in the Amazon developed a sophisticated agricultural ...

The vast majority of vehicles live out their final days in scrapyards to await recycling or simply rust away. They're eerie, ...

Neolithic Farmers Developed Harvested Floodwater to Create Complex Drainage and Irrigation Systems A team of researchers ...

The story of Argentina, from before the Europeans arrived to the modern-day, also tells us the story of South America at the ...

The Tsimane of Bolivia get most of their food from the river, the forest, or fields and gardens carved out of the forest. As we look to 2050, when we’ll need to feed two billion more people ...

The idea that the pre-Columbian Amazon was pristine has taken a nose-dive in recent years. Scientists have found several lines of evidence suggesting habitation, including once-populated sites and ...

A pre-Columbian society in the Amazon developed a sophisticated agricultural engineering system that allowed them to produce ...

Cuba's communist regime has a history of exploiting its medical personnel by forcing them to work in difficult conditions and ...