In South Africa, a remote coastal community has used counter-maps to document wetlands and sacred sites, showing what mining ...

Zimbabwe’s central bank wants people to use the ZiG, a gold-backed local currency launched in April 2024, alongside the US ...

Many fact-checkers are moving away from declaring claims as true or false, and trying to help people judge information for ...

A children’s literature author explains how some of her favorite Halloween-themed children’s books can help children prepare ...

A cybersecurity researcher explains how a flaw in widespread software makes millions of websites vulnerable to hackers – and ...

People are increasingly urged to become resilient to flooding. Yet many question whether this shifts responsibility from ...

Clayface has some memorable moments, but can’t quite reach the brilliance of the body-horror classic, The Substance.

Birth involves emissions from travel, pain relief and disposable products, but system-level changes can reduce them without ...

In August, the UN Security Council voted to end the decades-long peacekeeping mission in Lebanon. Blue helmets will leave by ...

The original costings for Snowy 2.0 were wildly optimistic. But the troubled scheme is close to completion – and will help ...

Most of what we knew about early modern humans has been turned upside down in the past two decades – and many more questions ...

Present in memory and tradition, the dead can shape people’s identities and behaviors long after they die. Recent survey data ...