Rates of violence against women have remained largely unchanged in California for nearly two decades, with Black and multiracial women facing the highest risks, a sweeping new analysis by UC Berkeley public health researchers has found.

Black women under age 65 were at the highest risk of violence, researchers found. Across all ages, assault injury rates among Black women were 3.8 times those of white women. Notably, the group at greatest risk of violence over age 65 shifted to multiracial women, signaling how vulnerability evolves throughout one’s life. 

Indigenous and local communities are not secondary actors in biodiversity conservation, but decisive agents who are already protecting the natural environment worldwide. Their ancestral knowledge and environmental stewardship practices — often invisible and unknown to academia and policy — are essential for designing more effective and inclusive strategies that sustain biodiversity and foster a fairer, more sustainable future.

In the first international study of wildlife values, research led by Colorado State University found a distinct difference between Latin American views toward wildlife and those in the United States and Canada – and traced the divergence in views to European colonization centuries ago. The difference in values has important implications for wildlife management policies.

Peruvian hairless dogs—a medium-sized elegant Indigenous breed with pointy ears—are widely represented in ancient Andean coastal pottery. Celebrated as a national symbol, they were declared part of Peru's cultural heritage in 2000. A new study published in the Journal of Anthropological Archaeology examining dog skeletal remains and a mummified dog, provides the first physical evidence of Peruvian hairless dogs from the only Wari Empire site found to date, on the coast of northern Peru, known as Castillo de Huarmey.