
Adapt or Abandon? Hard Choices in the Himalayas
Anthropologists are documenting how global warming is transforming Asia’s water tower and threatening the livelihoods of farmers and herders.
Anthropologists are documenting how global warming is transforming Asia’s water tower and threatening the livelihoods of farmers and herders.
Excavations at the site of 'Ubeidiya are at the heart of a debate about Homo erectus migrations, with profound implications for questions of human resilience and adaptability.
The billionaire space race thrives on romantic ideas of colonizing “the last frontier.” An anthropologist looks to Jamaican histories of colonization to show why such narratives are so dangerous—and offers an alternate vision of Black freedom in the Sovereign State of Accompong.
In Southern California, an anthropologist’s research aims to illuminate his late father’s work of weed abatement. He’s learning how crews of migrant Latinx workers bring deep environmental knowledge to stop destructive fires at the wildland-urban interface.