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Wildfires are burning more severely and more often, urban noise pollution is growing into a global public health menace, and phenological mismatches – disruptions in the timing of life-cycle stages…

Last year, from summer into fall, much of Europe experienced what’s known as a “wind drought.” Wind speeds in many places slowed about 15 percent below the annual average, and…

Fears of polio gripped the U.S. in the mid-20th century. Parents were afraid to send their children to birthday parties, public pools or any place where children mingled. Children in…

This year, the Center for Universal Education (CUE) at Brookings is 20 years old. In 2002, Gene Sperling founded the center to help advance the U.N.’s Millennium Development Goals and…

Femicide, the killing of a woman or girl because of her gender, usually by a man, is the most extreme form of gender-based violence. The late South African feminist activist…

What will mentorship mean in a post-pandemic world? As we’ve discovered since the earliest days of lockdowns right up through hybrid and phased-in re-openings, mentorship is more multifaceted than we…

Major disasters over the past two years could have been avoided or their impacts reduced if societies had taken into account their shared root causes when designing solutions, according to…

As more frequent and intense heat waves expose animals to temperatures outside of their normal limits, an international team led by researchers at the University of Bristol studied over 100…

With so many crises happening in recent years—the COVID-19 pandemic, Russia’s invasion of Ukraine, former President Donald Trump’s attempted coup, global inflation—the dire consequences of global warming have receded from…

At the beginning of the century, 1.7 million people died from HIV/AIDS annually. Today, the landscape looks drastically different, with 2021 recording 650,000 HIV-related deaths. This data reveals a 65% drop since…

The reasons for the breakdown of our food systems are complex and interlinked. Though exacerbated by present day conflicts, the current global food crisis is a product of how our…