World Nuclear Survivors Forum
Background: Since the first nuclear weapons test conducted in New Mexico in July 1945, the world has seen two atomic weapons used in Hiroshima and Nagasaki that took 200,000 lives, and…
Scientists don’t know why one-third of U.S. rivers have turned yellow or green
Satellite images of rivers across the U.S. have revealed a troubling color-changing trend: Over the past three decades, one-third of formerly blue rivers have turned a shade of yellow or…
People Are Not Paying Attention To The Trump Administration’s Execution Spree
The government has executed 10 people in the past five months, but only 13% of registered voters say they’ve heard a lot about it, a HuffPost/YouGov survey finds. The Trump…
Americans may no longer agree on a “baseline reality” thanks to QAnon, a new poll says
With 2020 drawing to a much-needed close, you might think we're in the clear for 2021 — new year, new beginning, right? A clean slate to start fresh. Unfortunately, it…
Court blocks Trump administration bid to detain migrant families indefinitely
A federal appeals court on Tuesday blocked a set of rules that would allow the U.S. government to hold migrant parents and children in detention indefinitely and said the Trump…
The workers who won in the pandemic — and those who lost
The Covid-19 pandemic and concurrent economic collapse have been remarkable for their uneven impact. The coronavirus has decimated elderly populations while largely sparing children. The U.S. GDP plunged by the…
PORCHE BENNETT-BEY, ASSA TRAORÉ AND RACIAL-JUSTICE ORGANIZERS
Guardians put themselves on the line to defend the ideals sacred to democracy. In 2020, they fought on many fronts. When George Floyd was killed in Minneapolis in May, it was…
Veteran Israeli Photographer, Who Documented Settlers and Palestinians, Dies
Miri Tzahi, famed for the images she captured in the Jewish settlements and the Palestinian communities in the West Bank and Gaza, died of cancer, at age 66 Photojournalist Miri (Miriam)…
Cold as ice—a scientist’s mission to slow the thawing of the Arctic
IN A special holiday episode, we travel to the Russian Arctic to meet the "prophet of the permafrost", take an extraterrestrial hike in the tracks of NASA’s Curiosity rover on Mars and…
The sound of aurora borealis
Karin Lehmkuhl Bodony and Matthew Burtner have turned the electromagnetic field of the Northern Lights into music WHAT SOUND does the solar system make? Usually only children, scientists and philosophers…
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