Planet or Plastic? is National Geographic’s multiyear effort to raise awareness about the global plastic trash crisis. Come to this page often to learn more, and find out what you can do to reduce ...

Scientists and journalists share a core belief in questioning, observing and verifying to reach the truth. Science News reports on crucial research and discovery across science disciplines. We need ...

Freedom of speech is a bellwether: how any society tolerates those with minority, disfavored, or even obnoxious views will often speak to its performance on human rights more generally. In ...

Human Rights Watch’s Refugee and Migrant Rights Division defends the rights of refugees, asylum seekers, displaced people, and migrants worldwide. We investigate rights violations arising from ...

The microbiome comprises all of the genetic material within a microbiota (the entire collection of microorganisms in a specific niche, such as the human gut). This can also be referred to as the ...

Based on the 1996 World Food Summit, food security is defined when all people, at all times, have physical and economic access to sufficient safe and nutritious food that meets their dietary needs and ...

About half (53%) of Americans say they hear or read about Ozempic, Wegovy and similar drugs extremely or very often. Only about 6.9% of the total U.S. population buys health insurance through the ...

A healthy ocean provides jobs and food, sustains economic growth, regulates the weather, and supports the well-being of coastal communities. Billions of people worldwide —including some of the world’s ...

Virology is the scientific discipline concerned with the study of the biology of viruses and viral diseases, including the distribution, biochemistry, physiology, molecular biology, ecology, evolution ...

Daron Malakian of System of a Down and James Hetfield of Metallica. CREDIT: Kevin Winter/Getty Images for ABA, Kevin Mazur/Getty Images for SiriusXM Back in 2000, SOAD were yet to make their ...