<p>This report, now in its third edition, synthesizes the available scientific evidence for the effects of various firearm policies on firearm deaths, violent crime, the gun industry, defensive gun use, and other outcomes.</p>…
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A global perspective on environmental issues. Our mission is to inform, educate, enable and create a platform for global environmental action.
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A report from a UN-backed panel of experts found that the hole in the ozone layer is on track to close completely within four decades.
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Social justice issues are intertwined with environmental issues. There is no just and equitable future for all unless everyone feels safe and welcome in traditional and nonformal educational settings. Educators…
“Atlantic hurricane seasons will become even more active in the future, and hurricanes will be even more intense.”…
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As the U.N. Decade of Family Farming hits the three-year mark, it offers an opportunity to evaluate what still needs to be accomplished.
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Women in Sub-Saharan Africa who experience recent intimate partner violence are three times more likely to contract HIV, research finds.
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The new “cap-and-invest” program is designed to follow in the footsteps of California while trying to learn from its missteps.
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The ratio of students to counselors has reached its lowest point in over 30 years, spurred both by an influx of new counselors and a nationwide decline in student enrollment.
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It’d be better than watching epic atmospheric river rainfall drain into the Pacific.
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While signing the hard-fought infrastructure bill into law, President Biden gave a speech that claimed a legislative accomplishment and staked a place in history. “Generations from now, people will look back and…
Whitney Young’s Anne-Michele Boyle was ahead of the game when a first-of-its-kind law requiring Illinois high schools to teach media literacy went into effect last fall.
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