New California legislation would require polyester clothing to have a label warning about shedding in the wash.

Linguists from Sweden’s Lund University have discovered a previously undocumented language with an unexpectedly rich vocabulary of words to describe sharing and cooperation.

Looking for a way to help a sustainable food system grow, Cullen Naumoff turned to nature.

For the last 13 years, Elsa Lumsden has been giving female inmates a second chance at life with an unusually beautiful set of skills…

I want my son to have male role models, female role models, and to know that families can look like anything. I want him to have options that I never did.

Through a thoughtful consideration of the uniqueness and validity of every person’s experiences of self, we can develop greater acceptance for all.

The premature fatalism that pervades the cancer world, combined with a rush into conventional treatment, means that patients overlook personalized integrative and alternative options that can be tremendously beneficial to their survival.

Sloganeering among Facebook friends is inspiring, but leveraging personal relationships with old-fashioned “shoe-leather” campaigns is still the best way to turn enthusiasts into voters.

Let’s regulate gun ownership the same way we regulate car ownership.

While we may be more accustomed to images of animals in their natural habitat claiming wildlife photography prizes; this year things look a little different.

After nearly 30 years of collecting rare artifacts, this Detroit teacher launched a mobile museum that travels the country educating people on African American history all year round.

An elementary school in Utah will now be named for the first black female engineer at NASA, who was memorialized in Hidden Figures…

Fears for children’s safety during their commute to school means fewer students are riding bikes or walking to school.

Until all of us are free, none of us are free.

What began as a few nature lovers, this beach cleanup team eventually amassed hundreds more helping hands, then thousands…

With one more vote needed to reverse panel’s unpopular vote, internet freedom groups are putting pressure on Republican senators.

One of the world’s most endangered species, the sea turtle, is under threat from human encroachment and poaching. But a conservation biologist has developed a strategy that could help save them…

Native women across North America are disproportionately vulnerable to violence. The statistics are stark, as is the silence that too often surrounds issues affecting Native women. In response, some Native women artists and writers are working to put faces to these numbers.

It’s one of the most concrete representations of love that we have, yet it’s extremely undervalued.

In Rebuff To Sessions, the Federal Marijuana Justice Act filed In House would help correct decades of injustice surrounding the discriminatory enforcement of marijuana criminalization laws in the United States.

In a remote village on the Indonesian island of Sulawesi lies a small garden of near-mythic repute—a place whose stewards grow not mere plants, but hopes and cures that have served the community for generations.

The movement to end the use of wild animals in circuses secured its biggest win yet…