Search results for

It costs nearly $100 million a year to maintain global stockpiles of vaccines for Ebola, cholera, meningitis and yellow fever in case of emergency. A new study estimates how many lives they've saved.

On Thursday, July 24, the city council awarded $255,400 to 22 local nonprofits. That’s out of a total of 25 organizations that requested $358,498 in funding this fiscal year. Here's which organizations were awarded funds and how some of them plan to use the money:

Shahar Segal, who runs popular restaurants around the world, has left his role as a spokesman for the Gaza Humanitarian Foundation amid calls to boycott his businesses.

Many people in the United States receive little or no information about flood risk when they move into a new home or apartment. Here's how you can learn about your flood risk.

As a new Trump administration signals a retreat on climate action, China is stepping up. China is the biggest producer of climate technologies like electric vehicles and solar panels.

Communities across the Kodiak Archipelago are facing environmental challenges that climate change is making worse — problems like coastal erosion, depleted salmon spawning grounds and disrupted wildlife populations. A recent workshop in Kodiak connected some rural communities to resources that could help them adapt to those challenges.

Surviving on a diet of toothpaste and toilet paper, South Africa's notorious "zama-zama" illegal miners continue a weeks-long standoff with police in the darkness of a disused gold mine.

Vice President Harris started her 107-day race buoyed by Democratic optimism, but came up short against former President Donald Trump.

Over 12 million cases of dengue fever were reported in 2024, the most ever. A study suggests climate change has likely played a significant role in the disease's expansion.

Robert F. Kennedy Jr.’s claims about fluoride in the drinking water are linked to Cold War conspiracy theories about the substance.