A New Tradition: Inside An All-Female Coffee Growers’ Cooperative in Honduras
The group is utilizing sustainable agroforestry techniques to revitalize their region and tackle food insecurity.
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Seattle Prepares for a Thousand-Year Storm
The city is starting to take steps to ready itself for an increased onslaught of rain as a result of climate change and historic weather patterns.
Uncertainty Swirls Around Trump’s Department of Veteran Affairs
After the White House Chief of Staff John Kelly contradicted the official narrative around the previous secretary's departure, legal questions have sprung up about the current leadership of the department.
Climate Change Is Causing a Dangerous Uptick in Cases of Lyme Disease
Ticks that carry the pathogenic bacteria can now survive in environments where they previously would've frozen to death, resulting in an increased risk of infection.
How Coral Bleaching Events Affect Ecological Diversity
As a result of rising ocean temperatures coral bleaching is becoming more common, and it's causing a biotic homogenization of local fish populations.
This Copyright Dispute Is at the Center of an Education Policy Controversy
A seemingly straightforward copyright infringement case in New York's Second Circuit Court has the potential to upend the state's education policy.
The Larger Implications of a Supreme Court Case About Indigenous Fishing Rights
One case about replacing culverts in Washington state could end up influencing larger decisions about native rights in places like Bears Ears and Standing Rock.
One New York Police Chief Is Upending Conventional Drug Enforcement
The police chief of Chatham, New York, has a revolutionary strategy for policing the opioid epidemic.
Inside the Ambitious Plan to Replenish a Depleted Aquifer
In Idaho, a state with stringent water rights, the people have managed to recharge the essential Eastern Snake Plain Aquifer that supplies hundreds of thousands with water.
What Makes a Reliable Forecast for Big Storms?
It's all about which model you look at, European or American.