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Discover how she flew a plane, wrote books in Braille, and became a global activist despite being born deaf and blind.
It’s shaping up to be a vintage summer for books about the outdoors – here are some new releases worth seeking out, writes Roger Cox ...
This week, listeners heard Terry Deary discuss his lifelong love of crime-writing and his latest book, while Elif Shafak appeared on the Take Four podcast following her win at Hay Festival.
Author Casey Sherman heard about Nathan Carman when the rest of the world did. “Back in 2016 when Nathan Carman took his ...
Today, out of the 10 most water-stressed countries in the world, seven are in the Middle East and north Africa. Basically what that means is that our rivers are dying, our rivers are drying up.
In two new middle grade novels, GRACIELA IN THE ABYSS (Candlewick, 256 pp., $18.99, ages 10 and up), by the Newbery medalist Meg Medina, and BLOOD IN THE WATER (Scholastic, 272 pp., $18.99, ages 9 ...
While Governor Maura Healey is yearning to travel the Northwest Passage and kayak in the Arctic Circle, she is setting her ...
The University of Guam’s first Island Sustainability course has graduated seven students who created practical projects ...
More than 50 artists from all over the world came together to fundraise and help the non-profit continue its work in food ...
June is National Indigenous History Month. This month, add these buzzworthy books by First Nations, Métis and Inuit authors ...
A history and description of bark and skin boat traditions of the native peoples of Scandinavia and northern Russia that ...
Some suburbs of Tucson and Phoenix will struggle to find enough water to keep growing without damaging underground aquifers by overpumping groundwater, a new report warns.