In early October, a lawsuit was filed in Thurston County Superior Court by a pair of state lawmakers and a public policy ...

Open semi-natural settings in urban areas—like parks and golf courses teeming with plants and small mammals—are possible ...

The rootstock of a coffee plant can live for 20 to 30 years. In that time, a generation, it will have good years and bad ...

Hunting is considered critical to human evolution by many researchers who believe that several characteristics that ...

Economists and psychologists work together to understand how human behavior impacts people's decision-making in the marketplace.

Many of the products used on a daily basis contain toxic chemicals that escape into homes and the environment when they're used and disposed. Even small, sustained amounts of chemical releases make up ...

It’s no surprise that individual families provide different types of resources to their children; for example, some are able to provide more financial resources, while others offer more robust social ...

Human ecology education is a transformative program that focuses on the interplay between humans and our human ecosystem. It is an interdisciplinary educational field that combines physical and psycho ...

ABSTRACT: Positive psychology-based approaches tend to focus on positive experiences and positive individual characteristics, as well as their contribution to the person’s general wellbeing. This ...

Climate Lab is a Seattle Times initiative that explores the effects of climate change in the Pacific Northwest and beyond. The project is funded in part by The Bullitt Foundation, CO2 Foundation, Jim ...

The Earth is always changing, yet animal, human, and environmental interconnections are each increasing at such force, frequency, and range that the planet faces a primordial, anthropogenic condition ...