Image Courtesy of Cathleen Liang. Even before the pandemic, people spent about ninety percent of their time indoors. Given how many hours we spend in
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Image courtesy of Noora Said. Today, climate change is not only at our doorstep—it’s in our living rooms, on our kitchen tables, and even in
Image courtesy of Breanna Brownson. Nowhere is the diversity in the impacts of climate change more obvious than in India. There, great disparities in people’s
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During the Great Depression in 1929, immigrant workers became scapegoats for economic hardship, accused of taking jobs away from native-born Americans. After the tragedy of
On a cold November day in 1957, Laika made history as she rode into orbit on a Soviet spaceship, withstanding tremendous acceleration to become the
From the bright Red-Necked Tanager to the deep Blue Crowned Pigeon, over ten-thousand species of birds share the planet with us. Throughout history, their colorful