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As financial institutions gain a greater understanding of the carbon impact of their borrowers, they can serve as catalysts for a transition away from fossil fuels and other carbon-intensive sectors.…

Zainab Okolo is a strategy officer and Jamie Merisotis is president and CEO at Lumina Foundation.  Okolo is a licensed family therapist who used her research and work in mental health…

People who have received periodontal maintenance care stayed in the hospital for the shortest time after a heart attack, a new study shows. The conventional wisdom is that medical and…

As colleges and universities look for ways to woo students with compelling experiences, higher ed leaders need to look no further than the devices students are never without: their smartphones.…

The powerful remnants of Typhoon Merbok pounded Alaska’s western coast on Sept. 17, 2022, pushing homes off their foundations and tearing apart protective berms as water flooded communities. Storms aren’t…

This Q&A is part of a series highlighting the 2022 Black Women Give List honorees. Joy B. Webb is program director at The Community Investment Network, founder of The Circle of Joy,…

Next time you walk past college students in your town or see a university campus on the news, I encourage you to consider this: Roughly one out of every three college…

When single moms are college students, complications and barriers abound. The risk is great as they try to raise children, provide financially and succeed as a student. But if they…

An unlikely hero of the COVID-19 pandemic? The parking lot. Sitting in cars by shuttered schools, fast food restaurants, and libraries across America, children without internet at home were able…

1. Climate change is affecting food quality Global heating is making floods, droughts and heatwaves worse. These extreme weather events are changing the environment and affecting the quality of food…

This summer, four times more rain than normal fell on southern Pakistan, causing widespread flooding that left a third of the country underwater. The scale is hard to wrap your…

The Annual Homelessness Assessment Report (AHAR) report highlights data focused on people living in homeless services system shelters throughout 2019 and 2020. This timeframe paints a picture of the status…