Studies show that collective intelligence rises with the number of women in a group—but women are often underrepresented at talks like the ones going on in Paris this week. Meet 15 leaders worth listening to.
Activists, researchers, and an artist. For them, climate change is personal.
What if this holiday season we fill our shopping baskets with only that which is needed and give something back in return?
FDA approves genetically engineered salmon, gun control debates overlook the biggest group of gun violence victims—black men—and apps that might help you put old stuff to new use.
Unlike at previous climate talks, countries are coming to the table with science-backed contributions that challenge the business-as-usual approach.
In Minneapolis, demonstrators are demanding police release video of a fatal shooting of an African-American man. Earlier this week, five were shot by alleged white supremacists.
Student-led organizations are bringing mental illness into the light to lower the suicide rates of young people.
Almost half of America's food is thrown out every year. Despite the popularity of things like local markets and farm-to-fork initiatives, the U.S. food system remains a heavily industrialized, wasteful business.
All 143 REI stores will be closed on Black Friday. But what more can the co-op do to live up to its values and transform the conversation in the United States?
A new documentary shows planning options to mitigate a new climate, but questions about the global South are largely ignored.
Turning the city's resolution into policies that protect health and safety is one fight that lies ahead. Another is forging a wall of resistance from San Diego to Vancouver, B.C.
In Washington state, eight kids took the government to court to safeguard their future through stronger regulations on carbon emissions. Here's what they gained.
Journey with us to the Unis'to'ten camp, where one First Nations clan stands in the path of three pipelines.
Like refugees everywhere, my mom gave her children the gift of a better life—and an understanding of what it means to risk everything for it.
The rise of ISIS, the “war on terror,” the attack on Paris—these are symptoms of a civilization in its twilight. But the displays of global solidarity show that the seeds of a new paradigm are being planted.
Portland's vote to stop new fossil fuel infrastructure, new legislation to protect butterflies, and why what we call ISIS matters.
How the majority of life on Earth lives under the sea, and 22 other facts about our world today.
In British Columbia, a clan of the Wet’suwet’en First Nation has reoccupied its traditional lands in order to stop several proposed energy pipelines.
Physical well-being depends on more than keeping our bodies fit. Emotions and the people who come into our lives matter just as much.
It’s a once-in-a-generation opportunity: Selling to employees can yield a better price, preserve a legacy, keep jobs and profits local—and maybe even eradicate inequality.
Those in the food justice movement question whether the agency’s recent efforts are a superficial attempt to appear supportive of local food and minority farmers.
A "Jubilee" initiative in Cincinnati aims to wipe out the debts of the city's poorest people. Theologian Walter Brueggemann explains the idea's biblical foundations.
A “silver tsunami” of retiring business owners is coming, and with it, one of the biggest changeovers of privately held companies in U.S. history. Here’s how we can help owners pass on their legacies—to their workers.
“We have always said that this is a battle of imagination over incarceration.”
Whether it's microbes in the dirt or fresh air—or both—researchers do know this: Gardening is strong medicine.
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