In 2013, Typhoon Haiyan struck the Philippines, displacing more than 4 million people, destroying entire communities and ruining millions of livelihoods. It was the fiercest storm to make landfall at ...

HAVANA — A young woman in a blue shirt is thigh-deep in the Straits of Florida, carrying a blue and white frosted cake. She bends down, releases it into the water as an offering and watches as it ...

St. Ann’s Avenue and 139th Street is nondescript, as far as corners in the South Bronx go. The buildings are mostly brick, five-floor walk-ups with jutting fire escapes. There are a couple of bodegas ...

CERRO CORÁ, Brazil — Antônio Acelino de Moura, 65, says he imagined the future had finally arrived at his community in the northeast of Brazil when, in 2012, he heard the news that a wind farm would ...

The band files out to the auditorium. Young hears the buzz of students inside. He wonders: Do they know who we are?The marching band used to reflect the school’s majority Black population and the ...

HONOLULU — Navy veteran Mike Plowman, 55, surfs nearly every morning. His home looks out on the vast Pacific Ocean from the seaside community of Ewa Beach, an idyllic sandy beach shaded with palm ...

When rioters burst into the United States Capitol building last week, the images of broken doors, shattered windows and vandalized offices were shared worldwide, but the most lasting damage done Jan.

CHARLESTON – If a child has to leave home and enter the foster care system, the hope is they will stay with a loving family or in a nearby group home. But in West Virginia, hundreds of foster kids end ...

PALACIOS, TEXAS — As other Texans fixed busted pipes and paid off electric bills after the February freeze, Shane Nicaud had to bury 1.5 million pounds of dead redfish into the ground.Nicaud, the ...

In Connecticut, the latest data from the state Maternal Mortality Review Committee shows there was an average of five pregnancy-related deaths every year from 2015 to 2020. An estimated 90% of the ...

In Baku, Azerbaijan, heads of state, leading climate scientists, environmental activists and regulatory officials from some 190 countries all gathered this week for the 29th meeting of the U.N.

Editor’s note: This column was first published in Poynter.org. You can find the original column here: NEW YORK — When Kavita Devi read the mission of her local media platform Khabar Lahariya, which ...