Breaking the Cycle

The future of reproductive health in India, from early ideas about population control to on-the-ground interventions happening now, to a world where men and women share contraceptive responsibility.
Hannah Harris Green

Fowl Plague

Pandemics have threatened humanity in the past–and avian influenza may well be the next one due.
Duncan Geere

A Noxious Problem

Smog in cities and smoke in the home cause a huge range of short- and long-term health conditions. Why is the world’s biggest public health crisis only getting worse?
How We Get To Next

Beats: Space

Space is where we project our dreams–and our nightmares–of the future.

Beats: Food

Food structures our day, and food systems shape our world

Beats: Disability

“Disable” is an active verb, and disability describes the social and environmental barriers that prevent access just as much as an individual body’s physical reality.

Beats: Health

Access to health care is as much a matter of public policy as it is the size of a person’s pocketbook; within a doctor’s office, many factors affect the quality of treatment.

An oil platform sits on a ship, awaiting its voyage out to sea. Activists fly a

Arctic Communities Fight Back Against Oil Drilling

For those in northern coastal regions, global warming isn’t an abstract change–it’s an immediate threat to survival.
Kamil Ahsan
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Trainstopping: Safe Transit in Natural Disasters

When earthquakes and tsunamis hit, transit has to be ready to cope.
Tiffany Kelly
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The Ghost Inside Your FM Radio

The story of Edward Howard Armstrong, the inventor of FM
Duncan Geere
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