Health
Humanity has almost recovered the years of life lost during the COVID-19 pandemic. But there is a less reassuring number hiding behind that achievement. According to the World Health Organization's latest Global Health Estimates, global life expectancy reached 73.3 years in 2023, almost returning to the
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In an era of fast fashion, disposable gadgets, and built-in obsolescence, many children are growing up without ever learning the value of repair. When a shirt tears, when a phone battery dies, when a blender stops working—the default response is often to throw it away and buy a
Culture
Happiness might seem like an intangible, deeply personal experience—but when measured across entire populations, patterns emerge that tell us something profound about what really drives well-being. The World Happiness Report 2024 makes this point clear: for the seventh consecutive year, Finland has ranked as the happiest country in
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They have survived for roughly 50 million years. They endured dramatic changes in climate, shifting continents and the rise and disappearance of countless other species. Yet today, the future of the rhinoceros depends largely on decisions made by humans. Every September 22, conservationists, wildlife organizations, zoos, governments and ordinary people
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For more than a century, scientists have tried to answer one deceptively simple question about Tyrannosaurus rex: Was it warm-blooded or cold-blooded? The answer changes almost everything about how we imagine the world's most famous predatory dinosaur. A cold-blooded T. rex would have depended heavily
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At 1:50 in the morning on January 22, 1982, a West German fighter pilot pushed the throttle forward on one of the most feared aircraft in his country's military history. The runway beneath him was covered in ice. Only a narrow strip down its center had been
Nature
For nearly a century, two enormous concrete barriers interrupted Washington State’s Elwha River. The Elwha Dam, completed in 1913, and the Glines Canyon Dam, completed in 1927, generated hydroelectric power that supported the economic development of the Olympic Peninsula. Neither, however, provided effective passage for the salmon and steelhead
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Along beaches stretching thousands of miles across the Pacific coast of North America, an alarming pattern is unfolding. Gray whales are washing ashore dead. Not just in Oregon. Not just in Washington or California. The deaths have been documented across the enormous migratory range of the eastern North Pacific gray
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A localized outbreak of Legionnaires’ disease on Manhattan’s Upper East Side has now killed four people, with at least 76 cases identified as of July 21, 2026. The latest official figures have therefore overtaken earlier reports that listed three deaths and 74 cases. Seven patients remained hospitalized, while 53
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As cities grow denser, taller and hotter, architects are reconsidering the relationship between buildings and nature. For much of modern urban development, greenery was treated as something separate from architecture. Buildings occupied one space, while trees, parks and gardens occupied another. In crowded cities where land is expensive, nature was
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High mountain wilderness has long represented the opposite of pollution. Snow-covered summits, isolated glaciers and alpine lakes appear far removed from crowded highways, factories, synthetic clothing and disposable packaging. Their remoteness creates an impression of purity—a belief that the highest and least accessible landscapes remain protected from the
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Every year on July 16, World Snake Day invites people to look beyond fear, folklore, and sensational headlines to appreciate one of the most diverse and ecologically important groups of animals on Earth. Snakes have lived on the planet for millions of years. They occupy forests, deserts, wetlands, grasslands, oceans,