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U.N. officials say a quarter of the population in Gaza is experiencing “famine-like conditions.” Health experts who have studied past famines warn that the fallout can reverberate across generations.
Jeff Buckley’s legacy and music live on, long past his death in 1997 at just 30 years old. In the 1990s, he was known for his ...
Battles between herders and farmers over access to land in Nigeria's fertile central region have led to violent clashes and no easy answers.
The Department of Transportation is raising concerns about airlines using artificial intelligence to set ticket prices based on customers’ personal information. Airline ticket prices already fluctuate ...
Last month, Microsoft announced a Chinese state-sponsored hack on government agency data, as well as hundreds of companies.
WBUR's Martha Bebinger lost her nephew, Austen Smith, to a drug overdose last year. In this essay, she describes the pain and ...
Groundwater depletion is rapidly accelerating, creating areas of "mega-drying" in regions that heavily depend on groundwater for their drinking supplies.
Some patients who’ve suffered from oral cancers or neurological diseases like ALS are starting to use the technology to regain natural voices that they lost.
In his second term, President Trump has taken dramatic moves to roll back efforts to fight climate change. Here & Now ‘s Peter O’Dowd and Anthony Brooks look at those efforts with Jillian Goodman, ...
We get the latest on Haiti's escalating violence days after gangs attacked an orphanage near Port Au Prince on Sunday, kidnapping seven staff members and a 3-year-old child.
Smoke from Canadian wildfires continues to bring poor air quality into the Northeast U.S. and the Upper Midwest. And the exposure to wildfire smoke remains a growing health problem.
Summer for thousands of people in Ann Arbor means scavenging for hidden codes around the city and reading books to collect points. It's been a triumph for the public library that runs it.