The World Food Programme (WFP) reported that one-in-three Afghans, or 14 million people, are hungry today and two million malnourished children urgently need treatment.  Meanwhile, since the beginning of the year,…

U.S. higher education may be the "the envy of the world" to many, but the system of thousands of colleges and universities have historically left behind one group of Americans:…

High-risk students in states and districts that have made masks optional are staying home. When the coronavirus first swept across Florida last year, Angela Gambrel did everything she could to…

Christina Lalanne opens the worn notebook and traces a finger along the slanting script. The text is written in Danish, which Lalanne doesn’t speak, and it’s jotted in an archaic…

From Bolivia’s Lake Titicaca to wildlife tourism in Nepal, we find out how the crisis has affected people in four travel hotspots – and whether or not they want the…

Clark R. Allen, 84, was fully vaccinated but still died from Covid; his children hope his obituary will spare others, writes Sheila Flynn  The devastated family of a vaccinated grandfather-of-17…

Land-based fish farms, alternative seafood menus, and other ways British Columbia is trying to save Chinooks and sockeyes. In British Columbia, salmon is ubiquitous on restaurant menus as well as…

Picture this: You’re hiking through a redwood forest in Northern California, and you stumble upon a towering trunk with tens of thousands of acorns drilled into it. You might think…

Tom Nichols quotes Abraham Lincoln – on how American democracy can only be brought down from within Liberal democracy is under attack from within. Institutional trust erodes. Fewer than one…