The towering container ships and oil tankers that sail in and out of San Francisco Bay have a little-known dark side: They are a leading cause of death for whales…
One of the things I learned early in life growing up on Cabin Creek in central West Virginia is that if you don’t take on a bully right from the…
Russia’s invasion of the country reveals that memes and cute cat content are not just for fun and entertainment. ikToks of cats in cardboard tanks. Flirty comments on Instagram accounts…
The Oscar-nominated screenwriter and director of ‘Don’t Look Up’, Adam McKay, joins Mehdi Hasan to discuss the dark comedy, the energy crunch, and continued climate inaction. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=FoqiliaNVwE
Neighborhoods that were subject to redlining in the 1930s tend to have higher levels of air pollution many decades later, a new study has found. The paper's authors looked at…
The All Blacks have apologised for a “tone deaf” International Women’s Day social media post which praised the team’s wives for supporting them, and featured a player who had assaulted…
WHO tells Reuters it advised Ukraine to destroy high-threat pathogens to prevent disease spread. The World Health Organization (WHO) advised Ukraine to destroy high-threat pathogens housed in the country’s public…
In a three-story Staten Island home is one of the largest collections of African American historical artifacts in the country. From Muhammad Ali’s boxing shoes and Tuskegee Airmen headgear, more than 20,000…
On a Kyiv square, where recent uprisings have scuppered Moscow's ambitions in Ukraine, an orchestra assembled before a small crowd to play the national anthem as Russian forces advanced on…
The early days of lockdown restrictions had a profound effect on people's daily lives. Alcohol sales skyrocketed, physical activity dropped off sharply, and "comfort eating" led to weight gain, too.…