May is Mental Health Awareness Month! This national month of awareness and action has been recognized since 1949, as mental health activists and practitioners across the country work to spread the ...

Every year on November 25, over 60 countries celebrate White Ribbon Day — an annual campaign dedicated to ending violence against women and girls. And the movement is just as much tied to justice for ...

Sharon Camp believed in big ideas. After narrowly surviving an illegal abortion, Camp made it her life’s mission to make reproductive medicine safer. From 1975 to 1993, Camp led Population Action ...

Saturday, April 25 is Independent Bookstore Day! This annual celebration is an opportunity to celebrate and support independent bookshops across the United States — both online and in your community.

On Friday, April 17, legendary oceanographer and marine biologist Sylvia A. Earle took the TED stage in Vancouver, Canada. In her TED Talk, she explained the importance of “Hope Spots,” or global ...

On Wednesday evening, Randall Lane, editor-in-chief of Forbes magazine, announced a new layer to the publication’s wealth-tracking of billionaires: How much money they are giving away. Lane is the ...

The Builders Movement is a community organization that has worked with renowned humanitarians like Chef José Andrés and Dr. Bernice A. King. Partnering with organizations like the Bay Area Rescue ...

On April 13, officials in Bangladesh rescued an endangered Bengal slow loris, locally known as the Lajjabati Banor, which roughly translates to “shy monkey.” The adult male slow loris had wandered ...

Mark Rober, a NASA engineer turned YouTube sensation with over 75 million subscribers, has spent his internet career making creative, silly, engaging science experiments for viewers, many of them ...

In 2005, after Hurricanes Ivan and Katrina devastated the state, then-Alabama Department of Insurance commissioner Jim Ridling was surveying storm damage when a thought dawned on him. Realizing that ...

As we celebrate Earth Day this year, may we reflect on the wise words of environmentalists, climate activists, faith leaders, lovers of nature, and the youth of the world. Whether you’re reveling in ...

Few things in this world could make people want to leave a tropical vacation early, and one of them is the unbearable pain of missing your dog at home. For tourists visiting Hawaii, several animal ...