Across the world, strategic seed banks keep safe seeds that could replenish agriculture after a cataclysm. But they aren't just for a worst-case scenario, writes Veronique Greenwood. Imagine an eerie slice…

If we do nothing, parts of the US will see a tripling in wildfire smoke pollution.  In the Western United States, summer 2018 was a bad time for wildfires. In…

Cain Named the Animal by Shane McCrae; Time Is a Mother by Ocean Vuong; Garden Physic by Sylvia Legris; Panic Response by John McCullough; Tractatus Philosophico-Poeticus by Signe Gjessing Cain…

The Pope has apologized for the Catholic Church’s role in the tragedy of residential schools – a move that residential school survivors have been awaiting for decades. “I ask for…

Ukraine's conduct is a warning to U.S. leaders that a technically inferior adversary can impose surprisingly sharp costs. Russia’s awful military performance in Ukraine has been the greatest surprise to…

Riyadh consultations hosted by Saudi Arabia have been boycotted by the Houthis, leaving little chance of success. Hodeidah, Yemen – Attiyah Dahfash has spent more than three years internally displaced…

Goods from all over, including Turkish nuts in Egyptian jars, found in ship that sank off Ma’agan Michael in northern Israel 1,400 years ago belie ‘dark Age’ after the Muslim…

For roughly 12,000 years, the Dead Sea existed in its original form. Now it’s approaching its end. Scientists debate the question of when the sea will turn into a puddle…

My research looks at how Black legislators changed the Democratic Party — and how becoming party insiders changed them The U.S. House of Representatives appears poised to pass a bill to establish…

There's an old saying: When white America gets a cold, Black America gets pneumonia. Or, as a columnist for The New Yorker put it in 2020, "When white America catches the novel…