'Oldest remains' outside Africa reset human migration clock 150,000 years earlier
A 210,000-year-old skull has been identified as the earliest modern human remains found outside Africa, putting the clock back on mankind's arrival in Europe by more than 150,000 years, researchers said Wednesday. In a startling discovery that changes our understanding of how modern man populated ...
Team successfully replicates imagined ancient sea migration from Taiwan to Okinawa
A team of Japanese and Taiwanese paddlers in a dugout canoe on Tuesday successfully replicated a hypothetical human migration between Taiwan and Okinawa about 30,000 years ago. During the two-day, 200-kilometer voyage from Taitung County, southeastern Taiwan, to Yonaguni Island, Okinawa Prefecture, the team of ...
Canoeists begin another attempt to replicate ancient sea migration between Taiwan and Japan
Museums in Taiwan and Japan on Sunday launched a third attempt to replicate a hypothetical human migration from Taiwan to Okinawa about 30,000 years ago. The voyage in a dugout canoe is one of multiple research projects signed in 2017 between Taiwan's National Museum of ...
There are some strategies by which Japanese and foreign advocates for migrants can argue for their rights to work and belong in Japan.
Scientists warn global warming could decimate fish supplies and fuel migration
Millions of people could lose their livelihoods, food source, and be forced from their homes if the world does not meet the Paris goal to curb global warming which is endangering fish numbers, Canadian researchers said on Wednesday. A study by the University of British ...
Weary of gang violence and poverty, Salvadorans vote for president and change
Polls opened Sunday in El Salvador's presidential elections amid heavy security as voters look for change in a country beset by gang violence and widespread poverty. Nayib Bukele, the 37-year-old former mayor of San Salvador, is the front-runner in a race that could upend the ...
Clashes erupt as Brussels anti-migration rally draws thousands
Police deployed teargas and water cannon after scuffles broke out Sunday as thousands of people answered a call by far-right groups to reject a U.N. migration pact. Police said some 5,500 people rallied in Brussels' European quarter housing a number of EU institutions. Some held ...
Cities seek cash and tech as they plan a safer and greener future
As 1.4 million people move to cities each week, local abilities to keep residents safe can become strained, increasing the risk of disasters, warned the United Nations secretary-general. "The answer is to build resilience to storms, floods, earthquakes, fires, pandemics and economic crises," said Antonio ...
What wild sheep can teach humans about leadership
Do certain bighorns pioneer migrations? Or do herds tap into crowd wisdom?
Millionaires jumping ship yet another symptom of Brazil's woes
Two thousand Brazilian millionaires left the country in 2017, according to the New World Wealth, a global market research group based in Johannesburg. For the third year in a row, Latin America's largest economy featured in the top ten of countries ranked by the outflow ...
Chaos in Merkel's coalition after minister dangles resignation
German Chancellor Angela Merkel on Monday will make a last-ditch effort to end a migration row with her conservative allies by holding more talks with her interior minister, whose offer to resign cast doubt over whether her fragile government can survive. Horst Seehofer offered to ...
Migrant misery, from Europe to the U.S.
Poor immigrants are finding the welcome mat missing almost everywhere they go.
