In 2015, I began experiencing the world in a different, less enjoyable way. It started with occasional bouts of nervousness that I didn’t recognize as anxiety — because I’d never experienced clinical anxiety before. In fact, 2015 was preceded by the happiest, most fulfilling decade of my life.
No Native American tribe has ever received an invitation to store its traditional heirloom seeds in the Svalbard Global Seed Vault…
Reparations is no longer only about a one-time payout to Black descendants of slavery.
Torrential rain swept across Australia’s east coast over the weekend after years of drought — putting out two of the biggest and longest-burning bushfires in the country’s populous region of New South Wales…
Student body presidents of the Big Ten universities are calling on their schools to divest from the fossil fuel industry…
Members of the Blackfeet Nation want tourists to understand how the story of Glacier National Park is really the story of their nation.
Why repair attempts are even more powerful than saying sorry.
Why would a vegan cheese company want to reach across the aisle to help the competition?
Resilience practices and culturally rooted health traditions show promise for overcoming trauma in real-life settings.
The world's largest privately-owned giant sequoia grove — home to the fifth largest tree on Earth — is now safe from development.
A family shapes us from the moment we are born. We learn stories, beliefs, and traditions to help shape our identity. Everyone wants to know, “Who am I?” “Where do I belong in this big world?” “Who will accept me?” “Who can I relate to?”
One tiny Pacific nation has begun the new year with a ban on sunscreens that contain chemicals which affect the health of coral reefs and fish…
Serapium Forest is the most prosperous of Egypt’s 36 tracts of land that make up an ambitious program to combat desertification by creating sustainably managed commercial forests fed entirely by wastewater…
If Mainers do not comply with the new vaccine law and choose to opt out of even one dose of a required vaccine, they face expulsion from all public, private, parochial and online schools (preschool through graduate school) as well as termination from employment.
Medical bankruptcy has been a talking point for many Democratic candidates as they make their individual cases for health care reform. This begs a few questions about how widespread these bankruptcies are and what causes them.
For most of November I worked as a short-term volunteer at the Casa del Refugiado, the House of the Refugee, located near the border in El Paso, Texas.
Greta Thunberg, 16, is the youngest individual to be recognized as Time Person Of The Year.
The story of the resurgence of the lobo mexicano (Canis lupis baileyi) begins in the late 1970s when former wolf trapper Roy T. McBride was commissioned by the United States Fish and Wildlife Service to conduct a survey of wolves in Mexico…
In time for the holidays, a perfect response for put-downs and power plays at the dinner table.
“Dawnland” is a must-see documentary on PBS’s Independent Lens.
After the Parkland shooting, the CEO of Dick’s Sporting Goods, Ed Stack, promised the kids to stop selling all assault rifles and high-capacity magazines.
Public hearings were held at the State House in Boston this fall for two crucial bills affecting everyone’s access to holistic health services in the state.
Want a free tree for your yard or neighborhood? L.A.’s Green New Deal to plant 90,000 trees in the city over the next two years is a bonus for residents…
While “blazingly fast” 5G might sound attractive to many who have grown up in the internet era, there are significant health and environmental concerns relating to 5G radiation that are not being properly addressed, which may have profound implications both in the short and long term.
Each bundle of joy in the maternity ward at Magee-Womens Hospital was decked out in a hand-crocheted red sweaters in honor of Fred Rogers…
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