The Mars Desert Research Station is full scale facility in southern Utah that is designed to host research teams who work under the constraints of a Mars mission for two to three weeks while doing intensive field studies. The text has been taken from the logs and reports filed by the MDRS Crew 174 during […]
When Typhoon Haiyan struck the Philippines on November 8, 2013, it was one of the strongest on record and the deadliest in 130 years. The town of Hernani in the province of Eastern Samar was a microcosm of the storms larger devastation. The three storm surges that came soon after midnight destroyed much of the […]
The Syrian civil war began when a group of young people spray painted anti-regime graffiti on the walls of their school. Their arrest, detention and torture let to protests and a violent crackdown by the forces of Syrian President Bashar Assad. The series of actions and reactions has led to the deaths of an estimated […]
The window on the high-speed train to Naples, Italy, frames an idyllic picture — rolling hills, sun-covered vineyards, and fertile farmland. But beneath the fertile soil of this region lies something insidious, an amalgam of industrial, hospital and nuclear waste that is spiking cancer rates and spreading alarm across Southern Italy. The setting is Campania, […]
With a deep, rich laugh, long red tinted hair and manicured nails, Ruby Corado holds court most days on the front porch of Casa Ruby, a nonprofit agency located in Washington, D.C. Corado greets the trans men and women who come here, looking for help with housing, health care, legal services and jobs. She calls them […]
River Park is the historically black neighborhood of Naples, Fla. It was the first area of town — then considered the outskirts — where the black population was allowed to buy property in the 1960’s. Now, the area is nearly in the center of Naples, causing the property values to elevate. Elders in the neighborhood try […]
I held my father as long as I could. I didn’t want to be selfish. So I asked the nurse for more morphine. I’m worried that he didn’t hear the promises I made to him. But I didn’t want him to hurt. So I asked the nurse for more morphine, again. There was a whole […]
“In Philadelphia and across the country, scores of schools have been closed, radically restructured, or replaced by charter schools. And in the process, the face of the teaching workforce has changed. In one of the most far-reaching consequences of the past decade’s wave of education reform, the nation has lost tens of thousands of experienced black […]
Every year, thousands of Haitians flock to Ville-Bonheur in Haiti for the July 16 feast of Our Lady of Mount Carmel. According to legend, the Virgin Mary showed herself in the mid-1800s on a tree near the waterfall. Every year since, Haitians make the pilgrimage to the waterfall to be blessed in the sacred water. July […]