Africa hosts its first G20 and urges the rich world to do more against climate disasters

World leaders with the Group of 20 rich and developing nations will meet this weekend in Johannesburg for the bloc's first ...
Connecticut Public

It's harder to get home insurance. That's changing communities across the U.S.

Home insurance is getting less affordable, and less available, as insurers raise prices and pull back from areas with extreme ...

Weekly Commentary: The Question

The Nasdaq 100 enjoyed one of those well-timed Friday afternoon rallies (1.9% off morning trading lows) to somewhat ease ...

The great musicians of the Delta helped spread the blues across America

Willie Dixon. Born at the Delta’s southern tip in 1915, Willie Dixon followed the Great Migration to Chicago. There, he ...

We followed the music of the blues from 'the most Southern place on earth'

Elements of the blues traveled to America with enslaved people from Africa, and reached full flower in the Mississippi Delta.
Opinion

There was something special about the Greatest Generation

“Like dolmens round my childhood, the old people,” the Irish poet John Montague wrote. Those prehistoric tombs are part of the Irish landscape — familiar and yet mysterious, vestiges of another, ...
Climate Compass on MSN

How Victoria Falls Got Its Name And Power - Explained By Geographers

The Scottish Explorer Who Named It After Queen Victoria David Livingstone became the first European recorded to view the ...
The Conversation

The great wildebeest migration, seen from space: satellites and AI are helping count Africa’s wildlife

Isla C. Duporge received funding support from the National Academy of Sciences (NAS) while leading this research. The imagery used in the project was acquired via her fellowship with NAS. Daniel ...
Colorado County Citizen

Is God Dead? The great flood

Though answered in part, the question from last week remains: “Is Christianity a copycat religion?” It is an essential question that critics of Christianity often ask, and rightly so. After all, the ...
The Conversation

Africa’s ‘great green wall’ is stalling: in Senegal very few planted areas show progress

Annah Lake Zhu receives funding from the Dutch Research Council (NWO). Amadou Ndiaye works at Amadou Mahtar Mbow university. So far, more than US$20 billion has been pledged, including large sums of ...