For reporters at risk around the world – because they’re exposing corruption, covering conflict, or afflicting the comfortable – today matters: it’s the International Day…

In 1936, Dutch geologist Jean Jacques Dozy climbed the world’s highest island peak: the forbidding Mount Carstensz, a snow-covered silver crag on what was then…

How did Saudi Arabia, which has been indiscriminately bombing Yemeni civilians for 18 months, just get re-elected to the Human Rights Council, the United Nations'…

It is a well-known fact that fitness and well-being go hand in hand. But being in good shape also protects against the health problems that…

Increasingly frequent extreme weather events could threaten butterfly populations in the UK and could be the cause of recently reported butterfly population crashes, according to…

Fifty years from now, what will the Smithsonian Museum of African American History and Culture's exhibit on the Movement for Black Lives look like? Will…

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Berkeley, California -- By the time you read this, Berkeley's intentional mobile homeless community will probably have been forced to migrate again, in yet one…

With just over a week to go before Election Day, the North Carolina NAACP on Monday filed a lawsuit to stop what it describes as…

Scientists in Rio de Janeiro have warned that the city’s sea defences may not be able to cope with the effects of climate change after…

As Facebook comes under fire for its alleged censorship and tracking of activists and protesters, a coalition of more than 70 groups and individuals has…

The British military has been involved in selecting the targets of the United States' secret drone campaign, new documents obtained by the U.K.-based rights group…