Tag Archives: environmental factors

What you eat may change the genes and health outcomes of your unborn children and grandchildren

Over the past century, researchers’ understanding of genetics has undergone a profound transformation. Genes, the regions of DNA largely responsible for our physical characteristics, were considered immutable under the original model of genetics pioneered by biologist Gregor Mendel in 1865. That is, genes were thought to be largely unaffected by a person’s environment. The emergence… Read More »

Global warming may increase risk of human-elephant conflict, researchers say

The risk of conflict between elephants and humans may increase in the future due to climate change and other human-caused environmental factors, according to new research. In one of the first studies to examine how rising global temperatures will affect interactions between humans and other large mammal species, researchers mapped the risk of human-elephant conflict… Read More »