The idea that climate change triggered the Syrian uprising is a persistent and dangerous myth. What really happened?

How Putin is using wheat as a weapon of psychological warfare.

Follow the money, and you will find a line from the broken doors and space heaters in buildings all over the city to the big banks that finance affordable housing deals.

The news consortium exposing the company's worldwide abuses hasn’t included the journalists best equipped to report on them—those in the global south.

If cities can starve in Syria—a country with abundant food and water, in the heart of the Fertile Crescent—they can starve anywhere.

As customers head back out to eat, most of the public discussion about safety is focusing on the front of the house — where customers sit. But in the back of the house, the part that most customers never see, a very different conversation is taking place.

Using the library’s main branch to promote a despot’s private event betrays the NYPL’s founding mission of serving the public.

"What made Bourdain great was that he kept reminding us it wasn’t just about him: He used his platform on TV and in print to speak up for people he felt had gotten a raw deal—people who, in a more just world, would have the opportunity to speak up for themselves."

We frame climate change in terms of the future: cities underwater by the year 2040, 2050, 2100. But for a growing number of people across the globe, that watery future is already here.

As higher temperatures lead to sea level rise and more extreme rainfall, more and more people are already learning to live with catastrophic flooding. Many find creative ways to adapt. But it comes at a cost—first and foremost to them, but in the end to all of us.

“I am currently a medic in the Army and have spent a considerable amount of time in Iraq,” he wrote.... He added that he was crying as he wrote the email, and added, in closing, “I was always taught that Soldiers aren't supposed to cry.”