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If you’re under the impression that climate change drove ancient civilizations to their demise, you probably haven’t heard the full story.  The ancient Maya, for example, didn’t vanish when their...

The anthropologist Anna Lowenhaupt Tsing believes humans have a lot to learn from mushrooms. In the prologue of her book The Mushroom at the End of the World, Tsing explores...

LONDON — Prince Philip was the longest serving royal consort in British history by more than a decade when he died Friday at 99. It was a role he assumed...

The Covid-19 pandemic has brought into stark relief one of the great certainties of life: death. As news reports relate the daily death toll — which, when aggregated, exceeds that...

Because the COVID-19 pandemic caused a massive economic slowdown, experts had hoped that the decline in transportation and manufacturing might slow greenhouse gas emissions at least a little. Unfortunately, a new report...

If you spend much time on TikTok, you’ve probably seen those videos. You know the ones: young people on the first day of lockdown, before it cuts to them later,...

SEDRO-WOOLLEY, Wash. — With dish soap, brushes and plastic water jugs in hand, Carole Rae Woodmansee’s four children cleaned the gravestone their mother shares with their father, Jim. Each scrub...

An Iron Chef apparently has a soft spot for cats. Superstar chef Bobby Flay and his Maine Coon cat, Nacho, have announced a new line of cat food. They claim...

Pfizer this month has fully inoculated 9-year-old twins Alejandra and Marisol Gerardo as part of an initial study to evaluate the safety of its COVID-19 vaccine in younger children.  The...

Florida lawmakers have backtracked on legislative language that threatened to ban giving voters food or drink while near a polling place, removing the ban from an amended version of an...