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. A new study catalogs how environmental policies on deforestation, along with forest fires and drought, have affected plant and animal diversity in the Amazon rainforest. For the study in Nature, researchers…
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. It is but natural that companies focus on their own business growth, it is their very nature of existence. However, the times that we live in strongly demand that companies…
This article is deemed a must-read by one or more of our expert collaborators. Globally, women and girls are increasingly being infected and affected by HIV, particularly in sub-Saharan Africa. Women and girl’s vulnerability to HIV and its impact are inextricably linked to gender…
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.…