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Wishcycling is putting something in the recycling bin and hoping it will be recycled, even if there is little evidence to confirm this assumption. Hope is central to wishcycling. People…

Women across Somaliland often face difficult pregnancies. Early marriage, high fertility rates, low levels of contraceptive use, widespread female circumcision, and a lack of emergency health services in many parts in the country stack the odds against a healthy, planned pregnancy.

Food, shelter and medical supplies are important but not the only things that help people get back on their feet.

A biologist who studies how viruses spread from animals to people explains the process of spillover and the risks posed by the new bird flu that has spread across the globe.

Years of climate activism and advocacy at the policy level are on the cusp of bearing fruit in 2021. President-elect Biden will reinstate U.S. participation in the Paris Agreement and…

If left unchecked, plastic consumption will double by mid-century. But even a global single-use plastic ban will not stop plastic consumption from growing above current levels, such is the sheer volume of production, new research warns.

[Image description: A red sign on a concrete post. It says “do you want a future of decency equality and real social justice.” Image by Jon Tyson on Unsplash] Hi everyone.If you’ve bee……

Studies of refugees from around the world confirm that families with children view education as one of their highest priorities along with other basic needs. In addition to an acute awareness…

“We don’t acknowledge everyone’s trauma equally, and trauma as a field has been showing whose trauma matters over time.But trauma itself is an overwhelming event…”…

In experiments with cells, the PFAS chemical GenX suppressed the way white blood cells known as neutrophils kill invading pathogens.