Portugal

New research from Portugal finds youngsters feel more positively toward members of an ethnic minority if they have learned songs from their culture.

• By Tom Jacobs

As fire conditions intensify around the globe, scientists are helping countries prepare for a fiery new normal.

• By Bob Berwyn

The call center boom in Lisbon, Portugal, provides another example of how brain drain promotes economic development.

• By Jim Russell

Nearly a century ago, during the Great Migration, less-educated individuals were the ones who left home in search of better lives. The opposite is true today, with the educated more mobile than ever before, leaving some places in a spiral of decline.

• By Jim Russell