LA Mayor Karen Bass stays silent when asked to respond to criticism over handling of wildfires
Los Angeles Mayor Karen Bass declined to respond to criticism on Wednesday of the city's handling of a series of wildfires ...
Tracking Tropical Cyclone Dikeledi
Tropical Cyclone Dikeledi formed in the Indian Ocean late Thursday Eastern Africa Time, according to the Joint Typhoon ...
Slavery, Tax Evasion, Resistance: The Story Of 11 Africans In South America's Gold Mines In The 1500S
The transatlantic slave trade was one of the most devastating and inhumane processes in human history. It is the subject of ...
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Watch the moon hide the 'Seven Sisters' of the Pleiades star cluster tonight
On Jan. 9, skywatchers can watch the dark limb of the 82%-illuminated waxing gibbous moon creep across this beloved star ...
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One atlas to map all ecosystems on Earth: Interview with Yana Gevorgyan
Say you want to see how the world is faring when it comes to biodiversity and ecosystem protection. Is it progressing fast ...
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Solidarity with Africa now cornerstone of China's diplomacy — MFA
Wang Yi emphasized that Beijing's commitment to developing relations and promoting cooperation with African countries "is not weakening, but only strengthening," regardless of shifts in the internatio ...
Strontium isotope map of Sub-Saharan Africa: A powerful tool for archaeology, forensics and wildlife conservation
A team of researchers led by UC Santa Cruz recently released a sophisticated new map that reveals, for the first time, the ...
From A Colonial Hill Town To Idris Elba's Island Masterplan, What Can Two Sierra Leone Developments A Century Apart Tell Us About Urban Elitism?
Sierra Leone's capital, Freetown, is celebrated as a city founded to resettle freed slaves in the 1790s. Over the following ...
From a colonial hill town to Idris Elba’s island masterplan: what do these Sierra Leone developments tell us about urban elites?
Sherbro Island City’s vision of an elite urban development brings to mind some of the colonial thinking around the ...
50 place names for girls inspired by cities, states, countries and more
Where is London located? London is located in England, which is part of the United Kingdom (UK). It is situated in the ...
Trump’s World of Peril — and Opportunity
On the one hand, the world is full of peril. We’re heading into a year where a global conflict, already playing out in the shadows, could flare into the open. Yet there’s something as stark that I ...
Sync Your Calendar With the Solar System
Some stargazers are calling it a planetary parade: Every other planet in our solar system can be seen in the sky tonight.