Articles

  • 1 week ago | csmonitor.com | Troy Sambajon |Cameron Pugh

    The “Stockholm tree pit” nurtures urban forestsUsing more breathable materials reduces the need for irrigation and increases tree survival. The design, pioneered in Sweden, involves giving a tree an underground structure of soil, stone, and biochar to aerate and fertilize. These layers allow trees surrounded by concrete to absorb more oxygen and rainwater.

  • 2 weeks ago | csmonitor.com | Cameron Pugh |Troy Sambajon

    The collaborative experience of owning their company raises home health care workers’ job satisfactionMore older Americans are depending on home care workers, but at the same time, studies suggest that poor working conditions in most of the industry exacerbate staffing shortages. In contrast to traditionally run care companies, co-ops are owned and run by the workers and generally have lower turnover.

  • 3 weeks ago | csmonitor.com | Troy Sambajon |Ira Porter

    Colleges across the United States are facing a looming crisis: The enrollment cliff, a projected decline in college-age students, threatens to shrink college programs and strain budgets. At the same time, rising tuition and expenses, the resumption of student loan collections in May by the federal government, and return on investment concerns have made affordability a key issue for students and families.

  • 3 weeks ago | csmonitor.com | Troy Sambajon |Cameron Pugh

    An international court weighed in for the first time on whether a government protected the rights of uncontacted peoplesSome 10,000 people worldwide live in Indigenous groups that voluntarily have little to no contact with the outside world. In March, the Inter-American Court of Human Rights ordered Ecuador to prevent third parties from entering uncontacted peoples’ lands.

  • 1 month ago | csmonitor.com | Cameron Pugh |Troy Sambajon

    Eastern monarch butterflies doubled in populationAccording to a new report, the butterflies occupied 4.42 acres in central Mexico’s forests over the winter, up from 2.22 acres the previous year – the second-lowest total recorded in three decades of data. These migrating pollinators need large forests for protection against weather, and scientists attribute this year’s growth to less severe drought along the route from Canada and the United States to Mexico.