An occasional series where Mongabay founder Rhett Ayers Butler shares analysis, perspectives and story summaries. Human ...

A life cycle is the journey of a living thing from beginning to end. Some species produce offspring that look similar to them, like us humans. But the young of some other species are very ...

Nitrogen is one of the primary nutrients critical for the survival of all living organisms. Although nitrogen is very abundant in the atmosphere, it is largely inaccessible in this form to most ...

BC's Philip Landrigan, M.D., and the Minderoo-Monaco Commission on Plastics and Human Health present a sweeping new report showing plastic as a hazard at every stage of its life cycle Philip Landrigan ...

In population dynamics, there is an "echo effect". Today's aging population is the echo of a long period of low fertility ...

How to convert a tantalizing concept into a managerial instrument of competitive power by Theodore Levitt Most alert and thoughtful senior marketing executives are by now familiar with the concept ...