This article is deemed a must-read by one or more of our expert collaborators. The United States is having a long-overdue national reckoning with racism. From criminal justice to pro sports to pop culture, Americans increasingly are recognizing how racist ideas have influenced virtually…
This article is deemed a must-read by one or more of our expert collaborators. World health experts met recently to discuss an emerging global health crisis linked to the COVID-19 pandemic: plummeting rates of basic vaccinations among the world’s children. While many experts have been acutely…
In this episode we talk to Stelio Stefanou OBE, philanthropist and Founder of the For Baby’s Sake Trust (FBST) – a charity which focuses on working with parents to address…
This article is deemed a must-read by one or more of our expert collaborators. What is the most common form of human infrastructure in the world? It may well be the fence. Recent estimates suggest that the total length of all fencing around the…
This article is deemed a must-read by one or more of our expert collaborators. The 2017 hurricane and wildfire seasons were among the worst on record in the United States. The storms that year included three of the five costliest in the nation’s history:…
This article is deemed a must-read by one or more of our expert collaborators. Emperor penguins thrive on Antarctica’s coastlines in icy conditions any human would find extreme. Yet, like Goldilocks, they have a narrow comfort zone: If there’s too much sea ice, trips…
This article is deemed a must-read by one or more of our expert collaborators. Summer isn’t even half over, and we’ve seen heat waves in the Pacific Northwest and Canada with temperatures that would be hot for Death Valley, enormous fires that have sent…
This article is deemed a must-read by one or more of our expert collaborators. During the past 18 months, we struggled to adapt to living with a global pandemic, our growing awareness of human rights violations and systemic racism, economic despair, divisive challenges to…
This article is deemed a must-read by one or more of our expert collaborators. Of all the creatures on Earth, humans manipulate their environments the most. But, how far can we push it before something drastic happens? Scientists are calling for a better understanding…
This article is deemed a must-read by one or more of our expert collaborators. Manipulating RNA allows plants to yield dramatically more crops and increases drought tolerance, researchers report. In initial tests, adding a gene encoding for a protein called FTO to both rice…
This article is deemed a must-read by one or more of our expert collaborators. In recent weeks, catastrophic floods overwhelmed towns in Germany, Belgium and the Netherlands, inundated subway tunnels in China, swept through northwestern Africa and triggered deadly landslides in India and Japan.…
This article is deemed a must-read by one or more of our expert collaborators. Efforts to push low-carbon lifestyles and green energy to curb climate change will fail unless many people see benefits — and the poorest and most vulnerable should get the biggest gains,…