Aquaculture heavily depends on a small creature called brine shrimp, whose natural habitats are under threat. Scientists ...

An unusual couple, for reasons you wouldn’t suspect of. Yuro and Takashi Kuroda live in Japan and have five children. As a ...

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Border communities across the US southern border are waiting to see the impact of President Joe Biden’s executive order on immigration. Border communities have struggled for years to deal with the ...

The top diplomat at the United Nations is once again sounding an alarm about the dangers of climate change. UN Secretary General António Guterres likened humanity’s role in destructive warming to the ...

In coastal communities around the globe — places such as Vietnam, Bangladesh, Egypt, Italy, Brazil and the southern United States — rising sea water levels threaten to infiltrate freshwater drinking ...

Statistically speaking, for every baby born in Japan, two people pass away. The country’s rapidly shrinking population is, according to Japanese officials, a “national emergency” threatening its ...

Some 3,000 Palestinian children have suffered at least one amputation in the last eight months, according to UNICEF. That’s the largest cohort in recent history. Only a small percentage have been able ...

Jerusalem Day marks the “reunification” of Jerusalem in 1967 and the Jews regaining access to the venerated Temple Mount. The day is generally tense as Jews march through the Arab quarter of Jerusalem ...

Like in the United States, immigration remains a hot-button political issue in South Africa. There are estimated to be millions of immigrants in South Africa from neighboring countries, in search of ...

Passengers who made plans to fly out of Porto Alegre, Brazil, before the city’s airport was submerged underwater during recent flooding are finally able to depart. But their flights are leaving from ...