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In a recent study published in the Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences, researchers explored the levels of life satisfaction in indigenous communities around the world. Their results ...

Policy expert Tia Boatman-Patterson discusses the urgent need for stakeholders to work closer together, particularly in such high-cost states as California. In a period marked by escalating housing ...

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The State College Design Review Board heard preliminary plans for Encore, a mixed-use building at the current Addison Court ...

Walking down the streets of Taipei, you might not know that the country was once known as Garbage Island. About 30 years ago, 30% of Taiwan’s trash was left to litter the streets or burned away, ...

Though lead-based paint was banned in the late 1970s, lead still remains in the paint of roughly 37 million structures in the United States — and it's extremely harmful to people's health, especially ...

New Orleans’ Lower Ninth Ward, where hundreds of people died when Hurricane Katrina broke a levee in 2005, and Houston’s Kashmere Gardens, flooded by Hurricane Harvey in 2017, are just two among many ...