This article is deemed a must-read by one or more of our expert collaborators. Pre-existing, structural gender inequalities mean that disasters affect women and girls in different ways than they affect boys and men. The vulnerability of females increases when they are in a…
This article is deemed a must-read by one or more of our expert collaborators. Research the world over has shown how the key to eliminating poverty is education. Not just any education, but education for girls. So, there it is. The nexus of SDG 4 and…
This article is deemed a must-read by one or more of our expert collaborators. For more than half a century, Denis Hayes has been an environmental activist, changing job titles but never mission. That experience has given him the rarest of perspectives on identifying…
For a tern in the northern hemisphere, life may be about to take a turn for the worse. For murres or guillemots, as the temperature rises, the chance of survival takes…
The COVID-19 pandemic was an unprecedented shock to U.S. society at a time when the nation was already coping with a crisis of despair and related deaths from suicides, overdoses,…
More than a month into the Russian invasion, Ukrainian students in the U.S. and others in American academia with strong ties to the besieged country drift daily between hope and…
While it may seem that much of the world has been locked down during the past pandemic year, more than 80 million people are currently on the move – unwillingly.…
Even the High North can’t escape the global threat of plastic pollution. An international review study just released by the Alfred Wegener Institute shows, the flood of plastic has reached…
This article is deemed a must-read by one or more of our expert collaborators. The ongoing war in Ukraine has affected 18 million people, with more than 4 million having fled the country. As of March 22, the World Health Organization (WHO) had logged 64 attacks on…
A new report by the Forest Declaration Assessment says that fulfilling the Paris Agreement won’t be possible without acknowledging and supporting the crucial role of Indigenous peoples and local communities’ (IPLCs) restored…
The Covid-19 pandemic has given the world a painful primer on the power of exponential growth. On December 30, 2019, per the World Health Organization, there were two confirmed cases of…
Around the world, revolutionary changes are under way in transportation. More electric vehicles are on the road, people are taking advantage of sharing mobility services such as Uber and Lyft,…