Three days later, cholera took its first victim. The illness spread like wildfire all the way to Montreal and then to Upper Canada. It quickly became an epidemic that moved throug ...

By law, Norway’s universal child care system must be rooted in values that include forgiveness, equality, solidarity, and ...

Tonight, 733 million people – equivalent to the population of Europe – will go to bed hungry. As the planet marks World Food Day today, it is imperative that we use this moment to recommit to ...

In addition, we will need to develop and apply new approaches to cultivate the previously uncultivated and rare members of the soil community to assign functions to the vast number of unknown or ...

Rivers and lagoons have appeared in one of the driest places on Earth following unprecedented rainfall in the Sahara desert.

It was a July afternoon in 2011 when a car bomb exploded just a few blocks from Robert Ullmann’s office. Because it was the ...

More than 50 years after the fall of Portugal’s dictatorship, the authoritarian regime still casts a long shadow.

Around the world, people of Jamaican heritage are starting to reconnect with the island's powerful language – and its complex ...

Across West and Central Africa’s tropical agricultural belt — and one of the world’s greatest biodiversity hotspots — cacao ...

Two female elephants found electrocuted in Coimbatore district due to low-lying powerlines, prompting Forest Department and Tangedco investigations.

The received wisdom has long held that as well as pretty and rapacious, ragwort is also dangerous, given it contains ...

The National Transportation Safety Board released a preliminary report on a small plane crash that killed a man in Morgan ...