This article is deemed a must-read by one or more of our expert collaborators. Record downpours from Hurricane Ida overwhelmed cities across the Northeast on Sept. 1, 2021, hitting some with more than 3 inches of rain an hour. Water poured into subway stations…
This article is deemed a must-read by one or more of our expert collaborators. The good news when Hurricane Ida churned into Louisiana on Aug. 29, 2021 was that levees held up – especially those that were strengthened after Hurricane Katrina flooded New Orleans…
This article is deemed a must-read by one or more of our expert collaborators. The Los Angeles City Council voted Wednesday to transition to 100% clean energy by 2035, in line with President Biden’s national goals and a decade earlier than the city originally planned. The…
This article is deemed a must-read by one or more of our expert collaborators. More than 72 hours after Hurricane Ida made landfall, plumes of dark black smoke were still rising from four towers at the Shell plant in Norco, Louisiana. Enormous flames billowed…
This article is deemed a must-read by one or more of our expert collaborators. The Conversation is running a series of dispatches from clinicians and researchers operating on the front lines of the coronavirus pandemic. You can find all of the stories here. As…
This article is deemed a must-read by one or more of our expert collaborators. In February 2021, in the midst of rapidly warming global temperatures, an exceptionally severe cold wave hit large parts of North America, from Canada to Northern Mexico. It left 10…
This article is deemed a must-read by one or more of our expert collaborators. A few years ago, framed by the skyline of Detroit, a group of about 15 children resettled as refugees from the Middle East and Africa leapt and twirled around, waving…
This article is deemed a must-read by one or more of our expert collaborators. Subway stations in New York were inundated with water following heavy rain on Sept. 1, 2021. But the Big Apple isn’t alone – over the last year we have seen…
This article is deemed a must-read by one or more of our expert collaborators. The conversation about reparations for slavery entered a new stage earlier in 2021, with the U.S. House Judiciary Committee voting for the creation of a commission to address the matter.…
This article is deemed a must-read by one or more of our expert collaborators. Keith Poston, executive director of the Public School Forum of North Carolina, told the News & Observer, “Students who show promise need to be challenged. Schools need to see their promise and…
This article is deemed a must-read by one or more of our expert collaborators. Coaching teachers on classroom management and culturally responsive strategies can result in fewer racial disparities in discipline, according to a study appearing in a special issue of School Psychology Review.…
This article is deemed a must-read by one or more of our expert collaborators. As our second pandemic Labor Day approaches, Black worker leaders are determined to never again bear the brunt of a national crisis as they have under Covid. The latest horror:…