Juneteenth, short for June 19th, commemorates the day the last remaining enslaved people in the U.S. — in Galveston, Texas — received word that the Civil War had ended and they had been liberated by ...

As homelessness continues to rise — and housing solutions risk losing federal funding — major cities are working to figure out how to best develop affordable housing units for people facing housing ...

The Salt House living room. Photo courtesy of Casa de Sal/Airbnb Since the start of the journey, the Dantas women have collected over 13,000 bottles, though an estimated 8,000 were what they used to ...

In 2019, a beloved African forest elephant named Ousmane was thought to be only one of five to 10 elephants left living in Senegal’s Niokolo-Koba National Park. Ousmane, who was named after one of the ...

Atop the Balinese rainforest sits a tree-house style resort that boasts breathtaking views — and a budding firefly nursery.

The reseachers set out to prove that hope was a meaningful emotion. Photo courtesy of Ricky Esquivel/Pexels “Our research shifts the perspective on hope from merely a cognitive process related to goal ...

Even in the U.S., where the policy was least popular, half of those surveyed said they'd support a climate tax that redistributes wealth.

In a new initiative with Backline, a nonprofit that supports mental health in the music industry, small artists can access therapy for free.

Inspired by sweeping protests in Los Angeles and beyond, Roblox players are staging their own demonstrations against ICE.

During a routine research dive off the coasts of Southern California and Alaska in 2021, Occidental College professor Shana Goffredi scoured the ocean floor looking for methane seeps — deep-sea spots ...

A close-up of an artificial reef. Photo courtesy of Resting Reef The company, founded by Aura Murillo Pérez and Louise Skajem, provides a sustainable and meaningful alternative to conventional burial ...

Tan Wei Jack and his mentor Wan Faridah Akmal Jusoh made huge waves in the insect community when they rediscovered a long-lost firefly species.