This week and next, world leaders are gathering in Colombia for the 16th United Nations Convention on Biological Diversity to check up on their collective progress in slowing biodiversity loss. Can they successfully turn those plans into action against what the United Nations is calling “humanity’s senseless and suicidal war with nature?” For sponsor-free episodes […]
By The Associated Press The Israeli military said that one of its airstrikes earlier this month killed Hashem Safieddine. There was no immediate confirmation from the militant group about the fate of top official. (Image credit: Bilal Hussein) Source: Israel says it killed a top Hezbollah official expected to be the group’s next leader
By Ashley Westerman Ukraine is suffering from more than a Russian invasion. Births have plummeted. But many families with help from the government and doctors are trying to buck the trend and have a child in wartime. (Image credit: Yurko Dyachyshyn for NPR) Source: As Ukraine’s birth rate plunges, here’s what one doctor is doing […]