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Photo essay: Puerto Rico’s small farmers rebuild, with help from chef José...
Just a few days after Hurricane María devastated Puerto Rico in September 2017, chef José Andrés and his nonprofit organization, World Central Kitchen (WCK), were on the ground feeding people. Andrés...
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Europe is not afraid to regulate Big Tech. EU Competition Commissioner...
A requirement for Google's YouTube, Facebook's Instagram and other sharing platforms to install filters to catch copyright violations known as Article 13 (now renumbered to Article 17) has triggered...
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How Twitter and other social media can draw the US into foreign interventions
Algerian President Abdelaziz Bouteflika has promised to resign by the end of the month. That announcement came after thousands of Algerians took to the streets in March to protest his decision to run...
View ArticleWhatsApp tipline to fight fake news ‘too little, too late,’ Indian police...
WhatsApp on Tuesday launched a service for Indians to check the veracity of information, in the messaging platform's latest attempt to combat fake news in India ahead of national elections beginning...
View ArticleShell oil says it will quit a lobbying group that opposes global climate goals
Royal Dutch Shell PLC on Tuesday became the first major oil and gas company to announce plans to leave a leading US refining lobby due to disagreement on climate policies, citing its support for the...
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This high school sophomore from Minnesota 'jumped on the bandwagon' to save...
This past March 15, an estimated 1 million schoolchildren around the world went on strike for the climate.They were inspired by Greta Thunberg, who began striking outside the Swedish parliament during...
View ArticleEthiopia urges Boeing to review controls, backs pilots
Ethiopian authorities said on Thursday pilots of state carrier Ethiopian Airlines had carried out proper procedures and urged Boeing to review its flight control technology. The statement is the first...
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Can bacteria help us prevent salt damage to concrete roads and bridges?
Bacteria, which have been working for millennia as nature’s stonemasons, could soon be enlisted to help neutralize the destructive effects of road salt.According to the Transportation Research Board,...
View ArticleAustralia's new rapid-removal law for violent videos may be a 'knee-jerk'...
Imagine this: Mark Zuckerberg being extradited to Australia over a violent video a user posts on the platform.Seems far-fetched, but it's exactly what Australian lawmakers want to be able to do through...
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In Idai's wake, aid groups worry about 'double tragedy' of cholera
Cyclone Idai has caused widespread devastation in Mozambique since it made landfall in early March. The flooding and destruction of infrastructure have displaced thousands and left people in desperate...
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Legally, 'climate refugees' don't exist. But in Georgia, they say they're...
Clarkston, Georgia, is often referred to as the Ellis Island of the South. Some 60 languages are spoken in this city of 13,000 just outside of Atlanta, and perhaps half the population is foreign born....
View ArticleNewark, NJ, has a lead contamination problem in its water
Hundreds of thousands of citizens may be at risk of lead exposure from their tap water in Newark, New Jersey.The city recently started handing out water filters to some of its citizens after plans to...
View ArticleFrom fashion to tools, animal behaviors are often surprisingly human
On average, Americans spend 90% of their time indoors, but when we step outside and observe our animal relatives, we see that our behaviors and abilities are shared across the animal kingdom. Fashion...
View ArticleBrazil's Bolsonaro wants to mine on Indigenous lands — illegally
In Brazil, Native tribes have a constitutional right to reject any development on their territory. But the country’s new President Jair Bolsonaro has announced a controversial plan to allow mining on...
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Russia agrees to free whales held in 'whale jail'
Video of dozens of orca and beluga whales being held in a small pen near the Russian far east city of Nakhodka sparked outrage earlier this year.The whales were reportedly captured last summer and...
View ArticleWikiLeaks founder Julian Assange has been arrested in London
Following an abrupt withdrawal of his seven-year asylum by Ecuador, British authories arrested WikiLeaks founder Julian Assange and carried him out of the Ecuadorean embassy on Thursday. The arrest...
View ArticleThe Green New Deal doesn't include carbon pricing. Some say that's a big...
The Green New Deal resolution recently introduced by Congresswoman Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez of New York and Sen. Ed Markey of Massachusetts has attracted a lot of attention for its bold proposals to...
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How Atlanta plans to get to 100% green energy by 2035
Like any other city, Atlanta is woven with power lines, trams and buses. The electricity that makes Atlanta run comes mostly from coal, natural gas and nuclear energy. Only 6% to 8% comes from...
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London protesters say climate change is bigger than Brexit
Thousands of environmental activists paralyzed parts of central London on Monday by blocking Marble Arch, Oxford Circus and Waterloo Bridge in a bid to force the government to do more to tackle climate...
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A month after Cyclone Idai, governments struggle to secure crucial recovery...
When Cyclone Idai came ashore March 14 in Beira, Mozambique, as a killer Category 3 storm, it almost completely destroyed the coastal city. Floods and winds wrecked the homes and crops of two million...
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