Forty years ago, the public was outraged. It seemed there was a wave of teenage girls, particularly Black teenage girls, getting pregnant. "This was a new idea, this new deviant class of people, and ...

When disaster strikes without warning, the impact can change lives forever. In Buried Alive, the newest episode of Very Local ...

Racism kills; and that is made abundantly clear with every Black life lost to police misconduct, environmental hazard, or stress-induced illness. But the slow crumbling of our health due to systemic ...

Living in the midst of chronically stressful situations, including those suffused with race inequality and gender discrimination, may trigger new growth and coping skills — but it can also erode your ...

A new documentary on the Very Local app revisits the devastating Montecito mudslides of 2018, featuring survivor stories and ...

This year, 2020, is the gift that keeps on giving in the worst way possible, and the Black community is bearing the brunt of the bad news. Not only are we experiencing a disproportionate amount of ...

This story is part of SELF's ongoing series exploring black maternal mortality. You can find the rest of the series here. Imagine for a moment that you’re a very silly 22-year-old driving through ...

Earth system box models are essential tools for reconstructing long-term climatic and environmental evolution and uncovering ...

Harry Nugraha is a contributor from Indonesia. He is an anime addict first and a freelance writer second. He's been writing about anime and manga since 2020, and he loves to watch an unhealthy amount ...

Makoto Shinkai’s bold and charming Weathering With You is set in a world ending so gradually, people barely notice it anymore. Weathering With You is similarly ambitious. It’s set in modern Tokyo, but ...

Chemical weathering of continental surfaces consumes 0.3 Gt yr −1 of atmospheric carbon 7. This flux is of the same importance as the net uptake of CO 2 by the terrestrial biosphere in pre-industrial ...