In a Pandemic, a Broken Food Chain Delivers More Hunger
Reading Time: 3 minutes There were fissures in our food system long before the coronavirus. Now those fissures are turning into fault lines.
From Poverty to Pandemic
Reading Time: 4 minutes What the coronavirus teaches us about the universal consequences of inequality.
The Perfect Storm: A Pandemic, Natural Disasters, and a Lack of Preparation
Reading Time: 7 minutes The coronavirus already has the entire world in crisis mode. What will happen when COVID-19 coincides with seasonal natural disasters? No one knows, but it’s high time to start figuring it out.
Scientist Is Saving Corals by Breeding Them in the Lab
Reading Time: 6 minutes Jamie Craggs is breeding corals in the lab, hoping to combat the effect of climate change on the world’s underwater jungles
Coronavirus Pandemic Brings Out the Best in Some
Reading Time: 3 minutes A social worker offers grocery delivery, emotional support, and money to those struggling through the pandemic.
How to Get Climate Change Deniers on Board With Science
Reading Time: 6 minutes If neither scientific consensus nor the increasingly obvious effects of global warming can convince climate change deniers, what will?
Water Woes in the World’s Wealthiest Nation
Reading Time: 10 minutes There’s a secret water crisis in America. Two million people across the US lack access to running water and basic indoor plumbing. Keystone, WV, has gone without reliable water for almost a year. Local Tori Satow is fed up and determined to make a difference.
Can Free Public Transportation Transform a Country?
Reading Time: 3 minutes This week, Luxembourg became the first country that offers free public transit for all. But it remains to be seen whether the initiative will have the traffic, environmental, and equality impacts the small nation is hoping for.
Out of Thin Air — Breakthrough Tech Uses Water Vapor to Generate Electricity
Reading Time: 4 minutes Can a new technology that generates electricity from water vapor help combat climate change?
As the World Burns, Big Oil Executives Get Rich Fueling the Fire
Reading Time: 4 minutes While you are doing your small part to save the environment, oil and gas executives are getting bonuses for destroying it.