While many of us might imagine death as our final mark on the earth, the environmental impacts of conventional burial methods leave behind a legacy most of us wouldn’t be too proud of. For instance, ...

In Glen Burnie, Maryland, Springer Blankenship spends most of his off days traipsing through overgrown lawns. The Navy veteran volunteers with I Want To Mow Your Lawn, a nonprofit that provides free ...

When homeless shelters allow people to stay with their dogs and other pets, more unhoused people become more willing to stay in a shelter. That’s what my team at the University of Southern ...

Twice in 2025 — first on June 14, and again on October 18, millions of Americans gathered for nationwide protests under the banner of “No Kings.” The first event saw an estimated 5 million people in ...

In October 2025, following pressure from United States Transportation Secretary Sean Duffy, Texas Governor Greg Abbott ordered cities across the state to remove LGBTQ+ Pride crosswalks and other road ...

In 2017, a group of divers returned from a dive off the coast of Kumejima, Japan with pictures of a unique sea squirt with peculiar markings. The sea creature, which measured up to 2 centimeters (0.78 ...

For three nights of Winter Pride St. Pete — a February event celebrating LGBTQ+ pride in St. Petersburg, Florida — residents could look up and see rainbow lasers dancing across the sky. It was a ...

Starting in the 2026-2027 school year, a new state law in Illinois will require every public high school to include instruction on climate change and the impacts and causes of climate change for ...

“I’m pretty sure the sluts are gonna save us,” Instagram influencer Jess Olivia Fox said in a recent video. She is referring to the folks at Minneapolis sex shop Smitten Kitten, who have mobilized to ...

As the Trump administration’s Immigration and Customs Enforcement crackdown ramps up across Minnesota — especially following a deadly shooting of a bystander named Renee Nicole Good last week — locals ...

One design firm in Kenya wants to make it even easier for Blind and visually impaired shoppers to style their clothes. Hisi Studio started as Angela Wanjiku’s senior project at the University of ...

In late October, a group of 19 Buddhist monks set off for a 2,300-mile trek across the United States, beginning in Fort Worth Texas, with a final destination of Washington, D.C. Their mission? To ...