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We are living immersed in interconnected challenges of planetary scale, with climate change most deeply and devastatingly interlinked. We see complexity play out live, cascading into society and onto our…

University of Oxford researchers have contributed to a study which found that very few deep reefs have any form of protection, despite facing a multitude of threats.  With the UN…

Children and teens who survive a firearm injury have a high rate of developing new mental health diagnoses in the year afterward, even compared with kids who suffered injuries in…

Child brides being beaten by their husbands will no longer be included in India’s biggest survey of domestic violence — potentially hiding the problem and making it even harder for…

Parents have a lot on their minds when they send their children to child care. Will the child cry during drop-off, eat or skip a nap? But a new study…

Formal micro lenders are playing an increasingly important financing role in remote and rural areas where banks have limited reach or are unwilling to lend to the poor, industry analysts…

Researchers saw promising signs of a slow-moving rebound in student achievement this fall, more than a year after a dire spring where performance “bottomed out.” As U.S. students in August…

As society works to curb the spread of misinformation, we need to be clear that this is an information literacy crisis. While holding social media companies accountable for disseminating misinformation…

The United Nations (U.N) General Assembly adopted a resolution on September 2, 2022 condemning all forms of sexual and gender-based violence. The resolution, co-sponsored by Sierra Leone and Japan, was adopted by consensus.…