New research suggests that explanations based only on climate may not fully account for the major decline of the lowland ...

Could traditional Arable Farming be reformed, improved, and innovated through permaculture theory and methodology?

A bowl of cereal looks simple, but it’s the end of a long chain of choices that changed human life more than almost any ...

Just as geology created the conditions for human habitation in the Fertile Crescent, those same tectonic movements created the stage for today’s hydrocarbon-based conflicts.

A computer simulation developed at MIT and commissioned by the Club of Rome in the early 1970s projected a possible collapse of civilization around 2040—if growth, resources and pollution trends ...

As the son of archaeologists, National Geographic Explorer David Stuart spent his childhood wandering ancient Maya ruins—and helped shape what we know about the civilization today. The ruins of the ...

Americans of the Revolutionary generation did not think of themselves as direct heirs to Western civilization, a term that wouldn’t come into vogue until the 20th century. If anything, they saw their ...

Marco Rubio gave a speech Saturday to the Munich Security Conference in which he extolled an ideal that’s supposedly long out of fashion. “We are part of one civilization: Western civilization,” the U ...