Portland revolutionizes the world of airports
The Oregon city is committed to price containment, keeping it local and giving the passenger a radically new experience. Other airports are already asking for advice
The economist with an environmentalist’s heart who protects the forests of the Andean Chocó
Roque Sevilla is the first Ecuadorian to receive the International Union for Conservation of Nature award
A life without school in Gaza: ‘At night, I use my phone’s flashlight to study. Hunger makes it hard for me to concentrate’
The Palestinian Authority, the UN, and NGOs offer classes in shelters and displacement camps, as well as online courses, but 60% of students have not been able to continue any type of learning since October 2023, in a territory where illiteracy was almost nonexistent
Pivotal week for Alligator Alcatraz: Two lawsuits will determine the future of infamous migrant detention center
A federal judge will decide whether the facility was built illegally and could order it to cease operations, while another magistrate is evaluating whether the center is violating detainees’ right to counsel
AI recreates the faces of enslaved people in Brazil based on descriptions by an abolitionist
An exhibition in São Paulo rescues the visual identity of dozens of people freed by self-taught lawyer Luiz Gama in the 19th century
The journey of Gaudí’s Batlló chair: Casa Valle’s redesign captivates US audiences
The NYCxDesign Festival showcased furniture designs by the greatest exponent of Catalan modernism
Begum TV, a school for Afghan women banned from accessing education
María D. Valderrama|Paris|
Journalists broadcasting from Paris are sidestepping Taliban restrictions to connect girls in their home country to learning, health advice and entertainment
Haenyeo DNA reveals how the human body can adapt to extreme diving
The physiological and genetic traits of a group of octogenarian fisherwomen in South Korea have been shaped to dive into deep, icy waters
Gabriela Salas, the Indigenous scientist who brought Nahuatl to Google: ‘It is important that girls study to be freer’
This 28-year-old Mexican has been recognized for incorporating the language spoken by 1.6 million people into the search engine’s translator
The hypocrisy of American democracy and the urgent need for a social network of public interest
If we want to preserve democracy as a conversation based on shared facts, we must build a digital environment in which that conversation is possible. And the US is not the model. On the contrary, it is time to tell the emperor that he is naked
On horseback to fish for shrimp: Preserving one of Belgium’s oldest traditions
In the small village of Oostduinkerke, on the shores of the North Sea, a community of 12 families maintains an ancient custom declared by UNESCO as intangible cultural heritage
Trump’s re-election threatens climate change fight as global warming displays its most devastating face
The return of the Republican, who previously withdrew the US from the Paris Agreement, shakes up climate diplomacy amid the COP29 summit in Baku
The mystery of the huge global summit in Barcelona that nobody knows anything about
An association called SciTech DiploHub sent out a news release about a historic event that attracted 1,300 world leaders, including ministers, Nobel laureates and a Jordanian princess. The only problem is, it never took place
Ukraine defends its cultural heritage under Putin’s bombs and attempts to reframe history
After the Russian invasion, the most precious pieces were evacuated from Kyiv to secret locations on trains that ran along the front lines under missile fire
Vidar Helgesen, assistant director-general of UNESCO: ‘We need to save the oceans to save the planet’
The head of the Intergovernmental Oceanographic Commission warns that the world needs a system capable of monitoring in real time what is happening in the seas with respect to temperature, biodiversity and overfishing
The scientist trying to save unique fossils on the Ukrainian front lines
Natalia Gerasimenko was one of the members of the team that uncovered the oldest human artifacts in Europe: stone tools carved by ‘Homo erectus’ 1.4 million years ago in western Ukraine
Ukraine’s most famous sculptor turns war debris into art, expressing the inexpressible
Mikhail Reva has not rested in transforming over two tons of war debris — spiked Kalashnikov cartridges, bullets and arresting crumpled shells — into art that expresses his homeland’s suffering
In the Galápagos Islands, penguins are contaminated with microplastics
A study published in ‘PLOS One’ that various Ecuadorian scientists participated in warns of the high levels of contamination in the penguins’ ecosystem
The digital gender gap, a major obstacle to the fight for equality for women in Pakistan
Anmol Irfan|Karachi|
Only 26% of Pakistani women have access to the internet, compared to 47% of men, one of the most pronounced digital gender gaps in the world. The lack of access to the Internet makes it more difficult for them to educate themselves, progress at work and fight cyberbullying
Four men charged in theft of satirical golden toilet titled ‘America,’ at Churchill’s birthplace
Seven people had been arrested over the heist, but no charges have been brought until Monday, four years after the toilet was stolen. The artwork has never been found.
Palestine: A state without full international recognition or absolute control of its territory
The ambition for self-determination faces the obstacle of the impossibility of exercising total sovereignty in Gaza and the West Bank
Wanted: 3.2 million teachers
Latin America and the Caribbean have an enormous educational setback, and those who carry the burden are poorly paid, technologically challenged teachers with pandemic fatigue
Marrakech, a UNESCO city of heritage, but also of words and history
The oral tradition of storytellers that led to the Jemaa el-Fnaa square being named Intangible Heritage of Humanity is in danger of disappearing as its practitioners are pushed out by mass tourism
Do you have to be a seasoned explorer to visit Greenland? Not in the slightest
One of the great things about this frozen destination, whose mere mention conjures images of adventure, remoteness and cold, is that it is not that far away or that extreme
Biden will nominate longtime aide who worked for the first lady to become US ambassador to UNESCO
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Courtney O’Donnell is Biden’s choice to become the U.S. permanent representative to the Paris-based U.N. Educational, Scientific and Cultural Organization, or UNESCO
A controversial airport in the Sacred Valley of the Incas
The project in Peruvian town of Chinchero could bring more tourists to this famous region but at the same time it would cause ‘irreversible’ social, environmental and cultural impacts, warn its detractors
The heart-pounding zipline of discord in Rio de Janeiro
Plagued by legal problems and public protests, construction of this attraction on Sugarloaf Mountain has been halted by court order