This article is deemed a must-read by one or more of our expert collaborators. Researchers have discovered a link between poverty and smaller, slower growing brain regions. Children in poverty are more likely to have cognitive and behavioral difficulties than their better-off peers. Plenty…
This article is deemed a must-read by one or more of our expert collaborators. People who work outside increasingly risk their income, illness and even death as climate change ramps up extreme heat. That’s according to a first-of-its-kind study from the Union of Concerned Scientists, titled…
This article is deemed a must-read by one or more of our expert collaborators. In 2005, when Hurricane Katrina hit New Orleans, Samantha Montano was a high school junior in Maine. She signed up for a spring break service trip to help out in…
This article is deemed a must-read by one or more of our expert collaborators. As the Taliban sweeps across Afghanistan in its bid to oust the US-backed government, reports are emerging of women in newly captured territory being forced to marry fighters, publicly flogged and forced…
This article is deemed a must-read by one or more of our expert collaborators. My food trajectory is pretty simple. Chicago: tired, overcooked produce. Ann Arbor: tired, overcooked produce. Santa Monica, California, Technicolor year-round abundance that I am still not used to after most of…
This article is deemed a must-read by one or more of our expert collaborators. On Monday, the United Nations’ Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change released a report that makes it unequivocally clear that human beings have locked in a measure of warming for the planet that…
This article is deemed a must-read by one or more of our expert collaborators. Houston often doesn’t receive funder attention until major climate change-fueled disasters: Hurricane Harvey in 2017, the Deer Park Chemical Fires in 2019, the 2020 Texas deep freeze, even the persistent…
This article is deemed a must-read by one or more of our expert collaborators. Felicia Sonmez was a political reporter at The Washington Post expecting to cover an explosive story on her beat — sexual assault allegations against then-Supreme Court nominee Brett Kavanaugh —…
This article is deemed a must-read by one or more of our expert collaborators. Maintaining financial independence and self-sufficiency remains a constant struggle for the elderly and people living with disabilities in the United States. Today, people with disabilities and many seniors struggle to…
This article is deemed a must-read by one or more of our expert collaborators. The sudden end to America’s longest war came Sunday as the Taliban rolled into the capital of Afghanistan and the national government collapsed. Thousands of U.S. citizens and Afghans who…
This article is deemed a must-read by one or more of our expert collaborators. It is commonly cited that financial aid for college has not kept pace with the rising cost of pursuing a degree. But too often this trend is simplistically measured. Though the problem…
This article is deemed a must-read by one or more of our expert collaborators. In a Southwest that’s getting hotter and drier while its population steadily grows, ecologists and Indigenous food activists are increasingly touting mesquite’s potential as a widespread, sustainable drylands crop and…