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When the federal government spends billions of dollars on transportation, water, and other public infrastructure, the expectation is that these projects are being built to last. But over the coming…

On “Food Talk with Dani Nierenberg,” Bloomberg journalist Deena Shanker joins Mark Bittman, author of the book How to Cook Everything and editor-in-chief of Heated, to talk about how to fix the food…

Before becoming executive director of a small foundation in Binghamton, NY, Catherine Schwoeffermann worked in a museum as a cultural anthropologist and curator of folk arts. While at the museum,…

I never expected to work with youth. Growing up, I did well in school. I was a huge baseball fan, particularly of the Chicago Cubs. But by age 17, I…

All of us have watched the bouncy-castle known as Ozy deflate and then collapse. But there’s one lesson I hope we don’t take away from this: that Black- and POC-led…

Moath al-Alwi was captured by Pakistani forces near the Afghanistan border in December 2001 and given over to the United States military. A Yemeni national, al-Alwi has said he was…

In fall 2019, before anyone had ever heard of COVID-19, California legislators were trying to pass a bill aimed at increasing childhood vaccination. Five years previously, someone at Disneyland had…

The study, published in the Annals of Internal Medicine, looked at people taking immunosuppressive medications to treat chronic inflammatory diseases such as inflammatory bowel disease and rheumatoid arthritis. Since a…

Human-caused emissions of air pollutants fell during last year’s COVID-19 economic slowdowns, improving air quality in some parts of the world, while wildfires and sand and dust storms in 2020…

The COVID-19 pandemic showed us that human existence is fragile and perilous. However, if we do not take action now against climate change, the damage could be even greater and…

Income share agreements (ISAs) are designed to help students pay for and attend postsecondary education and career training programs. With an ISA, students receive financial support to help cover the…

Giving Compass’ Take: • The nonprofit accelerator Food System 6 brings together entrepreneurs in the agriculture space to give them training on waste prevention, soil health, and other sustainable practices.…