| Date | Title | Description |
| Sign up to see | Sign up to see | Sign up to see |
| Sep 29, 2026 | Morgan State’s School of Global Journalism and Communication Names Adam Mahoney 2026 Vernon Jarrett Medal Recipient | Capital B Climate and Environment Reporter Recognized for Investigative Reporting on the Impact of Data Center Expansion on Black Communities
BALTIMORE — Morgan State University’s School of Global Journalism and Communication (SGJC) named A... |
| Aug 28, 2026 | As microplastics pollute every corner of the Great Lakes, scientists push governments to combat threat | Getting your Trinity Audio player ready...
Deep within the boreal forest of western Ontario, scientists do the unthinkable: They dump pollution into remote, self-contained lakes to see what happens.
Canadian researchers curtained off two ha... |
| Jul 31, 2026 | Under Taliban, barring Afghan girls from school takes an emotional toll — and a community one, too | Getting your Trinity Audio player ready...
By RIAZAT BUTT and BRAM JANSSEN
Every day, even after the Taliban barred Afghan girls from education, Fariba went to school. The teenager left the house with her head held high, smiling, saying she... |
| Jul 19, 2026 | EU-Funded Herta Security Runs Banned Facial Recognition on 4,000 Indian Cameras | By Joshua Mitchell
Published: Jul 19 2026, 10:08 AM EDT
Share on Facebook Share on Twitter Share on LinkedIn Share on Reddit Share on Flipboard |
| Jun 29, 2026 | Microplastics linger inside people and animals, multiple studies show. But regulation is still far off. | Getting your Trinity Audio player ready...
As people age, cholesterol and fat gradually clog the walls of two large arteries carrying oxygen-rich blood to the brain.
Over time, depending on a person’s diet and other lifestyle choices, the c... |
| Apr 9, 2026 | Trump’s profane Easter social media rant stands out for all the wrong reasons (Editorial) | Getting your Trinity Audio player ready...
Last Sunday, billions of people around the world observed Easter, a holiday that celebrates Christ’s resurrection. John 20:21 records the risen Jesus’ first words as “Peace be with you.” Under the ... |
| Mar 16, 2026 | Mezcal’s popularity is booming in the US. That comes with a growing environmental cost in Mexico | Getting your Trinity Audio player ready...
By CLAUDIA ROSEL
SAN PEDRO TOTOLAPAM, Mexico (AP) — Thirty years ago, a single light bulb would illuminate the mezcal distillery owned by Gladys Sánchez Garnica’s family in rural Oaxaca, where the ... |
| Feb 27, 2026 | Mountain Valley Teacher Brings Global Health Learning to Life for Fifth Graders | When Amanda Bryant, a fifth-grade teacher at Mountain Valley Community School in RSU 10, applied for the 2025 Global Health Teacher Fellowship Program, she hoped to find new ways to spark curiosity and bring real-world learning into her cla... |
| Nov 26, 2025 | Can microbes supply half a crop’s nitrogen? Pivot Bio thinks so | Pivot Bio—which pioneered the use of microbial nitrogen to help farmers reduce their reliance on synthetic fertilizer and improve yields—has brought out a flurry of new products and slashed prices by 30% without denting margins.
“Something ... |
| Aug 1, 2024 | Nearly Half of Cocoa Products Are Contaminated With Lead, Says New Research | By Joseph Henry
Published Aug 1, 2024 12:16PM EDT
Share on Facebook Share on Twitter Share on LinkedIn Share on Reddit Share on Flipboard Share on Pocket
Who doesn't want a bite of dark chocolate when watching a movie or talking with friend... |
| May 22, 2024 | Greening the Nickel Industry: BANIQL's Sustainable Mining Approach | BANIQL, a US sustainable mining startup, recently secured $1.6 million in seed funding to revolutionize the extraction of nickel and cobalt from laterites. Traditional mining methods have wreaked havoc on the environment, but BANIQL aims to... |
| May 19, 2024 | BaniQL raises $1.6m to make nickel mining in Indonesia greener | GreentechInvestmentsNews
Lokesh Choudhary · 1d ago · 2 min readBaniQL raises $1.6m to make nickel mining in Indonesia greener
Willy Halim, CEO of BaniQL / Photo credit: BaniQL
Traditional extraction methods are notorious for their environme... |
| May 5, 2024 | Surveillance looms over pro-Palestinian campus protests | figcaption>span]:font-sans">
As college students reckon with weeks of pro-Palestinian protests and police activity on their campuses, experts warn they might spend their summer breaks feeling the impacts of ongoing campus surveil... |
| May 2, 2024 | The Dangers of Telling the Truth | Sign up for Climate on the Ballot, our weekly newsletter with ideas for reporting on climate and the 2024 elections.
In many parts of the world, telling the truth has become a life-threatening job. Tomorrow, May 3, marks World Press Freedom... |
| Apr 26, 2024 | Commentary | Opinion: Edward Humes: Ours is the most wasteful civilization in history. Here’s how to stop that. | By Edward Humes
What if the looming calamities of climate change, plastic pollution, the energy crisis and our whole environmental doom-scroll are symptoms of just one malady and it’s something we actually can fix?
That’s right, the planet ... |
| Apr 4, 2024 | Carbon Pricing’s Giant Leap Forward | Sign up for Climate on the Ballot, our weekly newsletter with ideas for reporting on climate and the 2024 elections.
In March, the regulatory body governing international shipping “essentially committed” to setting a price on carbon emissio... |
| Jan 12, 2024 | Covering 2024’s Many Climate Elections | Sign up to receive our weekly newsletter in your inbox.
Some four billion people — roughly half the human population — will get the opportunity to vote in 2024, making this the biggest election year of all time. Bangladesh went first, last ... |
| Nov 27, 2023 | Crossing the line: Earth’s planetary boundaries have been destabilized by oil, gas, and coal | It’s well known that the fossil fuel industry made the industrial age possible and raised much of humanity’s living standard, while also causing the current climate crisis. Less known is how oil, gas, and coal are destabilizing other vital ... |
| Oct 11, 2023 | Neighbors app floods police inboxes with alerts that have nothing to do with crimes | Victor Bizar Gómez for The Markup
Redeem now
The Neighbors app encourages people with Ring cameras to share information to keep their neighborhoods "safe."
Hundreds of law enforcement officers have opted in to receive Neighbors cr... |
| Aug 9, 2023 | The murders of Indigenous activists mark the death of the planet | In January 2022, Breiner David Cucuñame, a 14-year-old Indigenous Colombian activist, was shot dead in Colombia’s southwestern department of Cauca.
He was killed in the company of his father, during a routine unarmed patrol of Indigenous la... |
| Apr 9, 2023 | India’s Indigenous people pay price of tiger conservation | Officials were celebrating just hours away from several of India’s major tiger reserves when Prime Minister Narendra Modi announced in the southern city of Mysuru that the country’s tiger population has steadily grown to more than 3,000 sin... |
| Jan 27, 2023 | Assessing Impacts of AI on Human Rights: It’s Not Solely About Privacy and Nondiscrimination | That artificial intelligence (AI) systems impact privacy rights has become a kind of truism, often met with a subtle eye roll or a repressed sigh.
The similar concerns about AI and discrimination have not quite become a truism just yet, but... |
| Dec 21, 2022 | Female genital mutilation rates peak in Kenya | Female genital mutilation rates peak in Kenya during school holidays. Photo: Pexels
Female genital mutilation is a practice deeply rooted in cultural traditions around the world.
Female genital mutilation was officially recognised as a form... |
| Nov 30, 2022 | CDC launches initiative to test wastewater for polioviruses in some communities | With growing concern about the circulation of vaccine-derived polioviruses in the United States, the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention said Wednesday that it would work with select communities across the country to conduct wastewat... |
| Oct 26, 2022 | 1000+ Authors Speak Out For The Digital Future Of Libraries, Ask Publishers To Halt Harmful Actions & Rhetoric | Signed by a vast and diverse list of authors, the letter decries conduct from major publishers and trade associations, including their lawsuit against the Internet Archive, demanding that they cease efforts to undermine the essential contri... |
| Oct 25, 2022 | Large Vs. Small Deforesters In The Brazilian Amazon | Inside the Amazon rainforest several hours from Manaus, BrazilChristine Ro |
| Oct 11, 2022 | What Can a Secretive Funding Authority Tell Us About the Pentagon’s Use of Force Interpretations? | For nearly two decades, the Department of Defense has used 10 U.S.C. § 127e, an obscure counterterrorism funding authority, to create and command proxy forces across Africa and Asia. The full list of these proxy forces is highly classified ... |
| May 29, 2022 | Expanding U.S. Counterterrorism in Somalia Is Necessary but Insufficient | Editor’s Note: Al-Shabaab, the al-Qaeda-aligned militant group in Somalia, has a strong presence throughout the country and, in recent years, has increased its efforts to target the United States. Tricia Bacon of American University assesse... |
| Feb 28, 2022 | The art of crowdfunding a war, crypto style | Share this article:
Hello there,
There are two types of people in the world right now: those following the Ukraine-Russian tensions religiously and the others who are tired of any news related to the conflict. For now, I’m neither.
In the l... |
| Feb 3, 2022 | Your guide to the Republican-fueled culture wars as the 2022 midterm election campaigns kick into high gear | A supporter of schools reopening speaks at the Hillsborough County Public Schools school board meeting on August 6, 2020 in Tampa, Florida. Photo by Octavio Jones/Getty Images
Culture wars are playing a dominant role in the 2022 election cy... |
| Oct 28, 2021 | Public Records Plumb The Depths Of Illinois Law Enforcement's Accountability Black Hole | The Chicago Police Department isn’t willing to police itself. That much is apparent from the actions of its officers, which includes the department setting up an inner city “black site” where arrestees were separated from the rights and rep... |
| Oct 28, 2021 | Public Records Plumb The Depths Of Illinois Law Enforcement's Accountability Black Hole | The Chicago Police Department isn't willing to police itself. That much is apparent from the actions of its officers, which includes the department setting up an inner city "black site" where arrestees were separated from the righ... |
| Sep 16, 2021 | Why African Governments Are Accepting Afghan Refugees | In the final days of the U.S. withdrawal from Afghanistan, a handful of African governments raised their hands to host Afghan refugees. Rwanda, Uganda, Sudan, and the self-declared independent state of Somaliland offered to welcome anywhere... |
| Jul 6, 2021 | ‘1619 Project’ creator Nikole Hannah-Jones turns down tenure at UNC to join Howard University’s faculty with Ta-Nehisi Coates | The New York Times magazine journalist Nikole Hannah-Jones speaks at the 137th Commencement of Morehouse College in Atlanta, Georgia, on May 16, 2021. Marcus Ingram/Getty Images
Pulitzer Prize-winning journalist Nikole Hannah-Jones said she... |
| Apr 7, 2021 | This Exorcist Claims He’s Prayed the Gay Away for 500 People in Pakistan | Clad in a thick black coat, Tineenullah Fahad is sitting behind a desk in a room that resembles a psychiatrist's office with cold fluorescent lighting and a couch.
Fahad, 35, claims he heals people for witchcraft, demonic posession, and hom... |
| Apr 7, 2021 | Myanmar military may extend emergency rule by up to two years | This story was produced in partnership with the Pulitzer Center.
Naypyidaw/ Yangon, Myanmar – Since launching their February 1 military coup, Myanmar’s generals have largely stayed out of the limelight, secluded in the country’s ghost town ... |
| Feb 16, 2021 | Fights Over Indian Farm Laws Ignore Green Revolution’s Climate And Economic Problems | GHAZIABAD, INDIA FEBRUARY 10: Farmers at Delhi Ghaziabad Ghazipur border during their protest ... [+] against Farm Laws. (Photo by Sakib Ali/Hindustan Times via Getty Images)Hindustan Times via Getty Images |
| Oct 11, 2020 | Bleak photo of a herd of elephants eating garbage on a giant dump tells a story of our times | The elephants pictured here come to the garbage dumping grounds in Ampara in search of food. Unfortunately, this causes them to fall ill and many have died.
Tilaxan Tharmapalan
Several of the winning submissions to the UK's Royal Society of... |
| Sep 27, 2020 | Ideology Over Excellence: Awarding The Pulitzer Prize To The 1619 Project | Nikole Hannah-Jones, winner of the 2020 Pulitzer Prize for CommentaryMpi43/MediaPunch/IPx |
| Sep 7, 2020 | A racist conspiracy theory called the 'great replacement' has made its way from far-right media to the GOP | Fox News host Tucker Carlson. Chip Somodevilla/Getty Images
Sign up for notifications from Insider! Stay up to date with what you want to know.
Subscribe to push notifications Read the original article on Opinion Contributor. Copyright 2020... |
| Sep 18, 2019 | Only 8 People in This Indigenous Tribe Still Speak Their Native Language. The Amazon Fires May Wipe It Out Completely. | RIO DE JANEIRO, Brazil — Brazil’s indigenous Manoki have been watching fires tear through their ancestral land for weeks, fearing the devastating damage to their forests may mean the end of their cultural heritage as well.
“The fires did ir... |
| Feb 3, 2019 | The Stockholm Agreement and Yemen’s Other Wars | Editor’s Note: Yemen's deadly civil war and associated humanitarian catastrophe have dragged on for years. At the end of 2018, however, the country saw what seemed like a bit of good news: successful negotiations in Stockholm that offered t... |
| Jun 13, 2017 | Condom drops and airborne meds: 6 ways drones could change health care | Drones have been used to deliver sunscreen to a conference in Palm Springs, Calif., and pizza to a family in New Zealand, but they’re also in the air for far more urgent purposes — such as saving lives.
In fact, in some cases, drones could ... |
| Mar 16, 2015 | Religion on the go: has PrayerBox found a real sweet spot in Nigeria? | Out of Nigeria’s estimated 173 million citizens, more than 40% are Christian. That means it’s one of the countries with the highest density of Christians alongside Brazil, Mexico and the United States. It’s also home to one of the world’s y... |
| Mar 16, 2015 | Religion on the go: has PrayerBox found a real sweet spot in Nigeria? | Out of Nigeria’s estimated 173 million citizens, more than 40% are Christian. That means it’s one of the countries with the highest density of Christians alongside Brazil, Mexico and the United States. It’s also home to one of the world’s y... |
| Mar 20, 2014 | Style Lend Launches Out Of Y Combinator To Be The Airbnb For Women’s Closets | Collaborative consumption marketplaces have taken off in recent years to let people share many of the big ticket items in their lives: houses, apartments, cars. A new startup called Style Lend is gunning to be the go-to site for sharing the... |
| Apr 3, 2012 | Tell The Truth But Tell It Slant: There Are Still Major Worker Issues In China, Just Not Where Daisey Looked | In the hullabaloo over Mike Daisey lying about meeting injured workers, the spotlight turned from actual employment problems in Asia onto the face of the orotund and penitent former colonialist. Now that the news cycle has passed, we’re no ... |
| Oct 15, 2010 | i2O: An Intelligent Grid For Water Systems That Could Save Millions Of Gallons | One of the major issues I’ve been seeing raised internationally in the last year is that of fresh water shortage. Do you remember that striking visualization of the entirety of our planet’s fresh water pictured next to the salt and the rest... |
| May 22, 2009 | ProPublica Wants Newspapers to Steal Its Stories | ProPublica is an independent, non-profit newsroom with headquarters in Manhattan. ProPublica’s newsroom employs 32 journalists and receives financing from the Sandler Foundation and other contributions. The organization’s mission is to cont... |
| May 7, 2009 | Blue Cadet Web design firm nominated for two Webby Awards | Annesha Taylor has short hair and is seated with a bright floral dress.
She’s speaking into a camera about her first reaction to finding she had become one of the 28,000 HIV-positive people living in tropical Jamaica.
“How was I going to te... |
| I’m a travel writer who has visited 68 countries—the 4 ‘magical places’ I think about moving to most | I wonder what it would be like to live in most of the places I visit, but I know I can’t make everywhere home.
As much as I would love to wake up in Sydney every morning, Australia is just a little too far away from everywhere else. As vibr... |
| Japan faces its old age with robots and virtual reality
Part One: Virtually able (バーチャルで元気に)
Part Two: A Bot to Watch Over Me (私を見守るロボット) | TOKYO — The world is getting older. Fast. By 2050, the global population of those age 65 and older is projected to nearly double to 1.6 billion.
This global graying has given birth to a new phrase: “super-aging.” A nation is said to be supe... |
| Marxism, mandates, and critical race theory: Your guide to the Republican-fueled culture wars as the 2022 midterm election campaigns kick into high gear | A supporter of schools reopening speaks at the Hillsborough County Public Schools school board meeting on August 6, 2020 in Tampa, Florida. Photo by Octavio Jones/Getty Images
Redeem now
Culture wars are playing a dominant role in the 2022 ... |
| ‘I lost everything’: Somaliland market fire upturns life, economy | Hargeisa, Somaliland: On April 1, the first night of Ramadan, 23-year-old Somalilander Abdul Rahman was undertaking a solemn duty.
A friend’s relative had recently passed away, and Rahman was helping dig the grave. As he toiled in a graveya... |
