LifeStraw to provide Clean Water to Kenyan Kids

According to a joint report by the World Health Organization and UNICEF, across the world, 844 million people l...

Good Luck: A Documentary Showcasing the Struggles of Miners

Ben Russell—filmmaker, artist, curator—challenges conventions of documentary representation from within to produce intense, hypn...

Are Non-vegetarians destroying the Planet?

A new report, Appetite for Destruction, launched at the Extinction and Livestock Conference at London, says the consumption of animal products is leading to a vast...

Sticks for a Stroll

In one of the bylanes of Indiranagar in Bengaluru, a small store is attracting a big crowd, selling customized walking sticks.

Made by Bheemstyx, these aids to hiki...

Sustaining Sanitation

With the Prime Minister riding high on the publicity of the Swachh Bharat Mission, clean India seems to be an achievable dream today, but statistics say otherwise.

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Joan Rivers Stars In Posthumous PETA Campaign

Joan Rivers, who would have turned 84 on June 8, lives on — in new books, on QVC, and now in a PETA campaign urging animal adoption, using one of her trademark jokes....

A Fish That Can Father A Near Clone Of Itself

Scientists have discovered a fish carrying genes only from its father in the nucleus of its cells. Found in a type of fish called Squalius alburnoides, which normally inhab...

Didi Hirsch Mental Health Services Launches Videos For Mental Health Awareness Month

Didi Hirsch Mental Health Services, the Los Angeles nonprofit that is home to the nation’s leading Suicide Prevention Center, today launches “Stigma,” a n...

Colombian River Gains Legal Rights

Another river has won legal rights. In a landmark verdict, Colombia’s Constitutional Court has recognized the Atrato River basin as having rights to “protection...