If you are a Belmont parent of a teenager, odds are good that you will visit a college campus this summer. We register for tours, make the drive, search for the visitors’ center, follow the earnest tour guide walking backward, and hope for a sign that maybe this is the school where our kid will be happy. The college where we had the great ice cream wins over the one with the big dead rat. The schools may be different, but all college tours are about the same. I have a mental Bingo game of sights and stories that

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Elena can pinpoint the exact moment her climate distress began to overtake her life. “I can remember … just laying in bed with my sister, and we’re both crying, and my sister saying, ‘I’m not having kids now, like, there’s no way,’” says Elena, describing their reaction to Australia’s May 2019 election. “I think this […]

Lake Erie’s harmful algal blooms have started sooner and had longer peak periods over the past decade compared to earlier years, newly released data shows. Warming temperatures linked to climate change are a cause, according to researchers for NOAA’s National Centers for Coastal Ocean Science, with interactions among species likely playing a role as well. […]

Trees and branches that tumble onto the subway tracks have already delayed nearly 800 trains this year, MTA data shows — far more than in all of 2023. The impact has been felt most sharply along the Brighton Line, the stretch of open-air tracks south of Prospect Park where B and Q trains run beneath […]

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The Centers for Disease Control and Prevention promises better tests are being developed, but the episode points to vulnerabilities in the country’s defense against emerging outbreaks.

The National Education Association, the nation’s largest union, told striking workers that their health coverage would be cut off Aug. 1 absent a deal on a new contract. Tensions have mounted after staff disrupted the union’s convention, at which President Joe Biden had been scheduled to speak.

Three charts show how economic growth in Virginia has left Southwest behind.

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