The health authorities of the African nation declared a new outbreak of Ebola after a case was confirmed in Mbandaka, a city in the north-western Equateur Province, the World Health…
via TIME EPIC Director Michael Greenstone comments on how the private sector has been surprisingly aggressive on climate in the last 12 months, but it's no real substitute for a…
Marking International Mother Earth Day, UN General Assembly President Abdulla Shahid urged on Friday, for collective action to safeguard biodiversity and protect ecosystems. Nature is suffering. Oceans are filling with…
Helena Czernek and Aleksander Prugar cast old Mezuzah traces left behind across Poland and recreate them: 'Synagogues are traces of communities, mezuzahs are traces of those who were murdered' The…
Before World War II, the Dutch East Indies colony was home to hundreds of ‘Baghdadi’ Jews from Iraq who emigrated to Southeast Asia. While most had left, their presence is…
A new book reveals how a group of wealthy German industrialists thrived during the Third Reich – and afterward too. Author David de Jong explains why some firms still haven’t…
In honour of David Attenborough’s dedication to research, documentation, and advocacy in protecting and restoring nature, the UN Environment Programme (UNEP) announced on Thursday that he is the recipient of…
A 7-foot tall sculpture, a small-scale version of Kehinde Wiley's defiant rejoinder to Confederate statuary, 'Rumors of War,' will be installed in Mudd Hall atrium on the university's Homewood campus…
The Documentation Centre of Cambodia (DC-Cam) is preparing to release preliminary findings on a nationwide survey aimed at rehabilitating vulnerable Khmer Rouge Survivors. Carried out by 700 DC-Cam volunteers, mostly…
Although the overall security situation in the disputed Abyei region between Sudan and South Sudan has remained calm, the “trust deficit” between the two main communities continues to be a…