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All 10 of the most at-risk counties in the U.S. are in the South, according to the Climate Vulnerability Index, and half of them are in Louisiana.

In recent years, women in the geosciences have developed new trainings, like the FieldSafe program, to make the work more inclusive and equip researchers with strategies to intervene.

A scholar works to document local dialect of the Ojibwe language that was spoken by his grandmother.

As teacher shortages persist, Chicago, Lincoln and Tulsa are filling in the gaps with more than 150 internationally trained immigrants and refugees.

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Bill Ketter with his Wells Key award from SPJ and fellow CNHI executives Matt Gray, left , and Jim Zachary (Photo by Al Cross) By Al Cross …

In March, on International Women’s Day, President Biden issued an executive order to establish the Gender Policy Council and create our country’s first-ever national gender strategy “as a matter of human rights, justice,…

White public schools have always gotten more money than Black public schools. These funding disparities go back to the so-called “separate but equal” era—which was enshrined into the nation’s laws by the…

The climate emergency is here. Our political system isn’t responding at scale, so climate activists are stepping up their game.

When schools have more students of color, they’re more likely to close — and some shutter even when they’re high performing. In Louisiana’s largest school district, Jefferson Parish, advocates say the move exacerbates a racist history, too.

The people of Lāhainā are centering local voices to design a future that is more sustainable for the land and its people.

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