Woods Hole Oceanographic Institution
The sea's murky depths might host more life than we thought. That's the preliminary conclusion of scientists who this week completed the inaugural cruise of the Ocean Twilight Zone (OTZ) initiative.
You won’t see these amazing animals on a day at the beach, but they’re there — living in the vast, cold, unexplored midwater region of the ocean.
With their second #StressProtest and plans for more, GirlTrek co-founders T. Morgan Dixon and Vanessa Garrison are leading a self-care revolution.
One Acre Fund believes farmers should be treated as clients, not beneficiaries. Here's why.
Tests of a new vehicle called Deep-See will begin to build a detailed picture of life below the sunlit surface of the ocean.
Sightsavers
Fifteen years ago, Shiva Lal Rana walked 20 miles to Geta Eye Hospital to ask doctors to pluck out all his eyelashes. Instead, doctors performed what was then a new operation: They gave him surgery to clear up the infection.
When Sightsavers and its partners started working in Ghana in 2000, about 2.8 million people in the country were at risk of contracting trachoma. But on June 13, 2018,the World Health Organization announced: Ghana has eliminated trachoma.
"The pain is excruciating," said Simon Bush of Sightsavers. "People tell me it's like sandpaper scratching over your eye every time you blink."
The Educate GirlsDIB, which kicked off in 2015, was one of the first development impact bonds launched. The new model was the result of some in the aid community looking to find new financing tools that could reduce risk to donors and have the potential to bring in private investors.
The Bail Project
During the era of slavery, Black churches, families and communities would join together to purchase the freedom of their loved ones. A look at how bail funds are a modern adaptation of that idea.
Raj Panjabi is building the Community Health Academy, a mobile platform for training health care workers remotely through video and audio instruction.
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