Space anthropologist Jack Stuster has interviewed and observed astronauts for decades. In a Q&A, Stuster tells journalist Amber Dance how he has worked closely with NASA to improve the human experience of space exploration.
In West Papua, Indonesia, both conventional and “green” palm oil projects dispossess and exclude Indigenous people from their lands.
An archaeologist who has studied the charred remains of historic people's lives reflects on what the past can tell us about disasters and climate change.
A different way of thinking and working with bees may help us survive on a damaged planet.
Astonishing new research shows that fossil teeth, like trees, contain detailed records of the environments in which they grew.
Around the world, at least two billion people routinely consume insects. One anthropologist believes geography and colonization can explain why some populations are too squeamish to stomach such foods.