2022-03-03 UN Countries Agree ‘to End Plastic Pollution’
A giant art sculpture showing a tap outpouring plastic bottles, each of which was picked up in the neighborhood of Kibera, during the U.N. Environment Assembly (UNEA) held at the…
2022-03-03 Nigeria’s ‘Waste Museum’ Shows Waste Can Turn to Wealth
Jumoke Olowookere, founder of the Waste Museum, sits for a photograph after talking with Reuters at the museum in Ibadan, Nigeria on February 23, 2022. (REUTERS/Temilade Adelaja) Jumoke Olowookere’s latest…
2022-03-03 Cherokee on a Smartphone: Part of a Drive to Save a Language
Benjamin Frey, American Studies professor at the University of North Carolina in Chapel Hill, N.C., Thursday, Feb. 24, 2022. Frey, a member of the Eastern Band of Cherokee Indians, led…
2022-03-03 Officials Say Climate Change Is Starving Alaska’s Salmon
A spawning Yukon River Chinook salmon is seen captured near Pilot Station, Alaska, in this in this handout picture. (United States Geological Survey/handout via REUTERS) Alaska’s Yukon River has faced…
2022-03-02 How Is Technology Affecting the War in Ukraine?
This combination of images shows logos for Twitter, YouTube and Facebook. (AP Photo/File) Large technology companies have taken steps to restrict Russia’s state media from using social media to spread…
2022-03-02 Europe’s Joint Mars Mission with Russia Delayed by War
This illustration made available by the European Space Agency shows the European-Russian ExoMars rover. (European Space Agency via AP) The European Space Agency says the launch of a joint Europe-Russia…
2022-03-02 102-year-old Man Breaks Thai’s 100-meter Record
102-year-old athlete Sawang Janpram stands with his four gold medals for 100 meter sprint, javelin, discus throw, and shotput. Feb 27, 2022 It takes Thai athlete Sawang Janpram 27.08 seconds…
2022-03-02 Previously Unknown Dinosaur Discovered in Argentina
Part of a skull base of a dinosaur is pictured after Argentine scientists discovered a new species of carnivorous dinosaur, in Buenos Aires, Argentina December 27, 2019. Picture taken December…
2022-03-02 Research: Raising a Child Costlier in China than in US, Japan
FILE – Children at a playground inside a shopping complex in Shanghai, China, June 1, 2021. New research shows that the cost of raising a child in China is nearly…
2022-03-01 US Parents Look to Have More Influence over School Curriculums
Students at Stuyvesant High School leave after classes end for the week, Friday March 13, 2020, in New York. (AP Photo/Bebeto Matthews) A big debate in American schools is over…
2022-03-01 Ghana Artist Finds New Market for Hand-Painted Movie Posters
Ghanaian movie poster artist, Daniel Anum Jasper, 54, stands next to a hand-painted poster commissioned for a foreign client at his workshop in Accra, Ghana February 11, 2022. (REUTERS/Francis Kokoroko)…
2022-03-01 UNICEF Chief: Taliban Committed to Let Girls Back to School
Catherine Russell, UNICEF’s executive director, speaks during with the Associated Press in Kabul, Afghanistan, on February 25, 2022. (AP Photo/Hussein Malla) Catherine Russell is the newly appointed chief of the…