Filipino Cacao Growers Learn to Live With a Hotter Climate

In “Chocolates Melting Away” — the First-Place Winner of the 2026 Yale Environment 360 Film Contest — Breech Asher Harani explores how cacao growers in the Philippines are developing new techniques to protect their crops from increasingly harsh conditions.

What Parents Need to Know About Sexual Abuse in Youth Sports

The public SafeSport list is one of the most powerful tools for parents looking to research their kids’ coaches. But many families have no idea it exists or how to use it. Critics also say the organization has serious flaws.

How Florida quietly removed climate change content from textbooks

Publishers acceded to state requests watering down information on climate change’s impact, WUSF/Hechinger Report investigation finds. Now the state has turned to updating its science standards

This Coach Is Banned From Working With Kids. Why Is He Still Coaching?

Even though an oversight group found that Texas girls’ volleyball coach Ryan Richardson engaged in sexual misconduct with a minor, sports organizations have failed to stop him from coaching.

Meet the companies running our borders

If you travelled through Europe this summer, you probably noticed pretty long queues: whether in airports in Greece, Italy, Belgium, Germany, or the…

Trump administration advances plan to open national forests to development

The proposal would repeal the Roadless Rule, opening up nearly 45 million acres of national land to roadbuilding and logging.

Who’s most at risk in the cyclospora outbreak? The farmworkers on the front lines.

An expert on migrant farmworker health describes how this population has been blamed and put at risk, but seldom understood.

Israel and America Agree on Gaza’s New Leader

The Trump administration’s peace plan has invested its hopes for Gaza’s future in the little-known Ali Shaath.