Teachwire

Geography and natural hazards – How should you frame them?

Explore natural hazards in geography, their human impacts, and how vulnerability, risk, and preparedness shape disasters locally and globally ...

China’s million-year-old skull may rewrite where and when humans began

A fossilized skull discovered in central China and dated to roughly 1 million years old has upended the timeline of human ...
NPR

Natural History Museum vows better stewardship of human bones

The American Museum of Natural History says it plans to improve its handling of thousands of human remains. A recent investigation found that the New York institution has not been proactive in sharing ...
CNN

New York’s American Museum of Natural History to remove human remains from exhibits, including some from Indigenous and enslaved Black people

The American Museum of Natural History in New York will remove all human remains displayed in its exhibits and is preparing a new storage location for its collection of 12,000 remains – which includes ...
The New York Times

Facing Scrutiny, a Museum That Holds 12,000 Human Remains Changes Course

The American Museum of Natural History said it would address its collecting of remains, which stretched into the 1940s and included practices now viewed as abusive and racist. By Zachary Small Zachary ...