For many species, human actions are the biggest factor in their evolution. Andriy Onufriyenko/Moment via Getty Images Humans do a lot of different things to the environment, and there aren’t many ...

Human activities generate environmental stresses that can lead plant populations to become extinct. Population survival would require the evolution of adaptive responses that increase tolerance to ...

Brown rats in New York City may be evolving smaller rows of teeth. Tiny fish across the Eastern US have adapted to thrive in polluted urban waters. Around the globe, living things are evolving ...

Since the late 18th century, the heavy industry that lines New Jersey’s Newark Bay has belched a thousand insidious contaminants into the waterway. Tanneries used sulfuric acid to strip hides, arsenic ...

Associate Science Editor & Co-Host of The Conversation Weekly Podcast, The Conversation Marc Johnson receives funding from the Natural Sciences and Engineering Council of Canada, the National Science ...