How a group of drone racers are hoping to use their big events to educate others
If you happened to pick up one of those free-flying drones during the holidays, the Federal Aviation Administration says you should be registered with the government.As of Monday, drone owners who...
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These mosquitoes could be a weapon against Zika
There’s a room at the University of São Paulo with between 10,000 and 15,000 mosquitoes in it. If you’re very quiet, you can hear them buzzing.This is where mosquito researcher Margareth Capurro is...
View ArticleAn app promising to help Iranians get around the morality police was quickly...
If you live in Iran, you know about the morality police — the Gasht-e-Ershad.The group was set up after the Islamic Revolution to make sure Islamic guidelines were followed in the Iranian society....
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Could the Pill save the polar bear?
Conservationists tend to spend their time worrying about protecting forests, catching poachers or keeping carbon out of the atmosphere. But wouldn't it be simpler to deal with the root cause:...
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Here's a small town's advice for cities considering a plastic water bottle ban
The water crisis in Flint, Michigan, has raised questions about the state of our nation's water supply, but scientists and officials tell us that most of our water systems provide safe drinking...
View ArticleNew report blames most rising seas on humans — but this scientist remains...
It's not just humans, says Benjamin Strauss. But for the most part, it is.He's a scientist with Climate Central, an independent organization researching "the science and impacts of climate change."...
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One reason undocumented immigrants didn't learn about Flint's lead poisoning...
Flint, Michigan has been home to Carolina and Elias since they moved there from Mexico 14 years ago. Still undocumented, the couple has found work in restaurants and construction and is raising four...
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'Little Teresa' helps São Paulo women fight drought and male domination —...
Many of the alleys in São Paulo’s favelas have trash or weeds in them, the things you’d expect in alleys. But one in Sao Mateus, on the outskirts of the city, also has something you might not expect —...
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Young women in Kosovo are writing code to fight harrassment
Street harassment is a sad reality for women across the world, but in Kosovo it can get particularly vulgar, and mostly goes unreported. But a forthcoming mobile app may help change that. Ec Shlirë,...
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Yes, law enforcement can spy on your phone. The FBI insists they're not doing...
It's no news law enforcement agencies conduct cellphone surveillance. But there how the technology works and how agencies use it has been controversial in the USDevices like the commonly used Stingray...
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Women lead the fight to protect Amazonia from the impacts of a huge dam
After a quarter-century of plans and protests and construction and more protests, the Belo Monte dam complex on a tributary of the Amazon River in north-central Brazil will start generating power next...
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The bigger problems behind Brazil's recent disease outbreaks
As researchers in Brazil and around the world rush figure out more about the link between Zika and the birth defect microcephaly, many Rio residents say the answer to the health crisis lies not in a...
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Not many fish are left to bite in Rio's trash-lined bay
Rio de Janeiro’s Guanabara Bay has been getting lots of attention over the last few months, and for all the wrong reasons.The bay is filthy. Communities across Rio spew their sewage untreated into its...
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Meet a 23-year-old traveling the world on a bicycle to collect stories of...
Devi Lockwood is a 23-year-old poet and touring cyclist turned professional storyteller from Boston. And she's traveling the world by bicycle and boat to collect 1,001 stories about water and climate...
View ArticleOlympic sailor Isabel Swan wants a clean bay in Brazil for the Olympics
There's a serious water pollution problem that could affect this summer's Olympic Games in Rio: the city’s polluted Guanabara Bay.It's still an unresolved problem, just six months before the Games...
View ArticleSex among sea creatures is sexier than you might imagine
As the saying goes in Hollywood, “Sex sells.” The same may be true for marine biology.In a new book called "Sex in the Sea," Marah Hardt, a marine biologist and co-director of the non-profit Future of...
View ArticleValue tech? Then you'll have a tech genius. Art? An art genius.
There are places throughout history — Florence in the Renaissance, Edinburgh in the 19th century, Hangzhou during Europe’s Dark Ages — where there’s a flourishing of creativity.Eric Weiner calls these...
View ArticleFleets of autonomous cars may one day end the hassles of urban parking
Looking for parking in a city is frustrating for the driver and bad for the climate, as circling cars emit unnecessary pollution. One possible answer to this parking problem is not so far in the...
View ArticleJanuary snows in the Sierras ease, but will not end, California's drought
Despite a couple weeks of good rains and heavy snowfall in California's Sierra Mountains, state officials and water experts say the state should expect to be living with drought conditions for the...
View ArticleElephants trampling your crops? Release the bees.
How do you stop a six-ton hungry elephant from rampaging through your garden?For communities living alongside southern Africa’s national parks, the question has become more pressing in recent years....
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