Mass migrations of humans often occur do to negative pressures such as environmental crises, overpopulation, or war. Some of the largest mass migrations in history have taken place within the lifetime ...

With the increase in human migration, economies and markets across the world are being reshaped. While I've found much of the media spotlight has been focused on migration to Western countries such as ...

Scientists have uncovered compelling evidence that humans reached New Guinea and Australia around 60,000 years ago—earlier ...

At least five financial groups or think tanks have published 2025 projections about "net migration" — how the number of people immigrating to the U.S. compares with the number moving out of the ...

A modest rise in summer temperatures may have been enough to bring humans back to post-ice-age Britain centuries earlier than ...

This essay is part of The Great Migration, a series by Lydia Polgreen exploring how people are moving around the world today. We are living in an age of mass migration. Millions of people from the ...

An archaeologist just overturned a major piece of evidence that humans reached South America before most of North America.

Humans have always migrated to survive. When glaciers advanced, when rivers dried up, when cities fell, people moved. Their journeys were often painful, but necessary, whether across deserts, ...

A new study finds natural selection has reshaped hundreds of human genes in the past 10,000 years, driven by farming, disease ...