Fig and pomegranate trees, grapes, carrots, and narcissus flowers are some of the plants that Aveen Ismail like to grow in the Domiz refugee camp in Northern Iraq where they live. That's because these plants remind her of Syria and home. At first, Ismail did not find the dry land welcoming ...

Robbie Bond is an eloquent, friendly, and passionate conservationist who founded a nonprofit in order to advocate for the preservation of national monuments and parks. He’s also nine years old. Through his organization, Kids Speak for Parks, he and his parents cultivate national park and monument awareness ...

Songbirds may be nature’s pop stars, but the females are still waiting for a turn in the spotlight — we don’t even know if females sing in about 70 percent of songbird species. This is because the study of birds has a gender gap: most previous research has focused on male song. Participants in the Female Bird Song Project are looking to right this imbalance.

This spring, the Maine Health Access Foundation announced an investment of $600,000 in eight organizations that serve “communities that face disproportionate barriers to health and well-being.” The targeted populations include those in poverty and who are minorities based on gender, race and/or sexual orientation.

Blacksmiths in Colorado use their anvils to turn guns into gardening tools, reshaping America’s gun culture one strike of the hammer at a time. This is the work of the “Swords to Plows” initiative of the nonprofit RAWTools. Gun owners from around the country send RAWTools their disassembled weapons for transformation. Most guns can be made into several tools ...

Visitors to Highland, the Virginia home of James Monroe, are exploring the historic site in a new, vivid dimension with the help of augmented reality. A beta version of an AR tour, which includes 3D holograms, videos, artifacts, buildings and landscape features, was first offered in late February 2018.

Photographer Bryon Summers is traveling around the country with his camera in hand, taking intimate portraits of more than 1,000 Black males of all ages for his "We Love You" project.

Would you ask an ant to join you for lunch? A team of researchers at North Carolina State University in Raleigh calls on citizen scientists around the world to flip the picnic concept – they want us to feed the ants. By counting ants, recording their meal preferences, and sending in data, you can help Dr. Magdalena Sorger and her colleagues better understand what foods ants have access to around the world.