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An unprecedented climate change-fueled drought contributed to the political unrest in Syria, a new paper published Monday in the Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences concludes. The Syrian drought,…
WASHINGTON — Can bigger food stamp benefits alleviate child hunger in rural Kentucky? U.S. Agriculture Secretary Tom Vilsack announced Monday that the Obama administration wants to find out. The Department…
More than 8 billion people visit national parks and nature reserves every year, and visitors to those protected areas generate more than an estimated $600 billion in tourism dollars annually,…
By Mirwais Harooni KABUL, Feb 26 (Reuters) – More than 180 people have been killed in north Afghanistan in some of the worst avalanches there for 30 years, officials said…
But Britain’s ambassador to the U.N., Mark Lyall Grant, said the issue has not been officially discussed. Grant said there was no proof or evidence of the claim made by…
Despite the strategy’s success in Chicago, nationally there are few programs today that focus on helping African American families move from racially segregated, high-poverty neighborhoods to areas where their children…
Its creatorsSwiss company Flyabilityare traveling home from Dubai $1 million richer after winning the “Drones for Good” international competition, on February 7. Gimball is described as the first “collision-tolerant drone,”…
This story was originally published by 24/7 Wall St. The United States is becoming safer, with crime levels dropping nearly every year. Between 1991 and 2013, the U.S. violent crime…
Some Wisconsin firefighters who helped finish the job for a man who had a cardiac emergency while shoveling snow are now inspiring others in snow-blanketed areas to help out their…
Forces indiscriminately shelled residential areas in government-controlled territories such as Debaltseve and Avdiivka and rebel-held cities such as Donetsk and Horlivka as fighting escalated last month, U.N. High Commissioner for…
Stephanie Karr lives in Canada, sews, and loves her doggies, so she’s always made warm winter jackets for them. But in November of 2013, her thin-coated dog Thor, who is…
About 4,000 refugees from villages in the Nuba mountains are living on a small settlement near Kodok, in South Sudan’s Upper Nile state. Conditions in the displacement camp, which is…
Snowpocalypse 2015 was such a big nothing in some areas, especially in New York City, that one weather forecaster even apologized. So what’s a network hyping a storm supposed to…
WASHINGTON — The Obama administration released a draft of a five-year plan for oil and gas lease sales on Tuesday that would open areas of the Atlantic Ocean and offshore…
Instead, it’s the strange reality unfolding in the Arctic town of Kiruna, northern Sweden. A nearby iron ore mine — Kiruna’s main source of income and employment for more than…
DONETSK, Ukraine — Local authorities in the separatist stronghold in east Ukraine say at least seven people have been killed after a city bus was hit by an artillery shell….
The areas targeted were Debaltseve and Avdiyivka, he said. The reported shelling comes after talks Wednesday in Berlin between the foreign ministers of Ukraine, Russia, Germany and France aimed at…
WASHINGTON — The man in charge of keeping House Democratic votes in line isn’t holding out hope that Republicans will actually cooperate with President Barack Obama. House Minority Whip Steny…