The first analysis of recent extinctions across plants and animals finds that, contrary to previous studies, the rate at which many groups of organisms have gone extinct has declined over the last 100 years.

Eleni Hasaki, an expert on Greek ceramics, and Irene Bald Romano, a scholar of Greek and Roman sculpture, will each spend a semester at the renowned institute in New Jersey.

University of Arizona researchers evaluate the impact of pumping on groundwater levels using data spanning millennia.