What's the best way to go to the toilet – squatting or sitting?

Pauline Hanson’s concern about the ATO installing squat toilets to cater for its increasingly diverse workforce has prompted debate about …

IPCC climate report: Profound changes are underway in Earth’s oceans and ice – a lead author explains what the warnings mean

As a result of human activities, the planet is changing at a rate unprecedented for at least thousands of years. These changes are affecting …

Human atlas: An initiative for holistic understanding of human biology

The project will collate and integrate molecular information on human tissues and organs that currently lie hidden in research articles

Indigenous trees at risk of disappearing in central Africa

Researchers say that human activity has been crucial for young trees to mature in the world's second largest rainforest

Human activities impact wildlife, even in protected areas: Study

Jaguars, mountain gorillas and Sunda pangolins impacted by human population density and habitat fragmentation despite living in deep forest reserves

Sixth mass extinction more severe than estimated, 73 genera vanished since 1500: Study

Human actions fuel surge of genus extinctions; extinctions due in 18,000 years happened in last 5 decades

Increasing human footprint cutting Antarctica wilderness: Study

Data from 2.7 million records show how human activity has risen in Antarctica over the last 200 years

World growth ‘unsustainable’, warns US-based group of museums

The group of museums in its first statement on climate change warns human activity is making preservation of species difficult

Total weight of humans is 10 times that of all wild mammals put together

The weight distribution is also skewed: 40% global biomass of wild land mammals is concentrated in only 10 species

Asia, Pacific consuming natural resources too fast

WWF-ADB report recommends green growth and protection of terrestrial and marine environments