This article is deemed a must-read by one or more of our expert collaborators. If you’re a small foundation focused on disaster philanthropy, how do you balance IRS due diligence requirements with the need to move quickly during a crisis? The Center for Disaster…
Why has it taken a global pandemic to open up new ways of engaging parents in their children’s education? This is a question that we recently debated in the Center…
New research could be used to protect against and treat COVID-19. Researchers have engineered two small and specifically targeted proteins that could be administered as a nasal spray to protect…
Efforts to promote the future health of both wild bees and managed honeybee colonies need to consider specific habitat needs, such as the density of wildflowers, say researchers. At the…
Even as air pollution shaves years off life expectancy, fossil fuel projects get more funding than clean air initiatives, a global report said Tuesday. An annual survey by the Clean…
Old-growth trees are more drought tolerant than younger trees in the forest canopy and may be better able to withstand future climate extremes, researchers report. The new analysis of more…
University of Oxford researchers have contributed to a study which found that very few deep reefs have any form of protection, despite facing a multitude of threats. With the UN…
The ocean is rising on the international climate policy agenda and the dialogues around it — 51 national plans include at least one measure aimed at ocean-based mitigation, compared to just 31…
When you look at the numbers, it’s easy to gape in horror. In Ghana, a nation of 32 million people, there are only 62 psychiatrists. Zimbabwe, with a population of…
The past decade has seen a steady uptick in the number of funder collaboratives along with a surge in the volume of funds flowing through them, now over $2 billion annually. There…
The number of lakes on our planet has increased substantially in recent decades, according to a new study. There has been a particular increase in the number of small lakes,…
A biodiversity crisis is reducing the variety of life on Earth. Under pressure from land and water pollution, development, overhunting, poaching, climate change and species invasions, approximately 1 million plant…