biodiversity, changing ecosystems, ecosystems, exploitation of resources, human impacts, introduced species, land-use change, pollution
Environmentalists, as well as ecosystem experts, are of the opinion that while ecosystems can tolerate and survive climatic changes to a certain extent, it is much harder to handle the impact of humans. This heightens concern levels as to what should be done to stop the negative impact of human actions on ecosystems and biodiversity ...
Mastery of fire has given humans dominion over the natural world. A Yale-led study provides the earliest evidence to date of ancient humans significantly altering entire ecosystems using fire. The study, published in the journal Science Advances, combines archaeological evidence — dense clusters of stone artifacts dating as far back as 92,000 years ago — ...
