From high-altitude climbers to divers who can fish without scuba gear, scientists are finding new ways that human bodies may ...

Past work from Ilardo has shown that nomadic Bajau divers in Indonesia, Malaysia, and the Philippines have especially large ...

Linda Leaming first arrived in Bhutan, where she was blown away by its beauty and the kindness of strangers. It didn’t take ...

NPCA highlights groundbreaking women whose lives were part of the history of public lands, including lands that would later ...

Works by Hisako Hibi, Miné Okubo and Miki Hayakawa are featured in “Pictures of Belonging” at the Smithsonian American Art ...

Indigenous women from across the world discuss their struggles against the pollution of their ancestral lands and the ...

Nima Rinji Sherpa is the youngest person to summit the world’s 14 mountains higher than 8,000 meters – and an advocate for ...

Sophie Mousseau was photographed at Fort Laramie alongside six white Army officers. But her identity—and her life ...

A new study looks at how young Namibians reach adulthood, broadening the understanding of this life stage in sub-Saharan ...

The late March event, which earned the Guinness World Record for most people playing Monopoly, was held in Sydney, Australia, to honor a young girl who loved the game. The parents of Alegra ...

Girls Rock! DC is where young people come together to create, express and empower one another through music and activism. “At Girls Rock, we describe ourselves as an organization working at the ...

Three people, including a teenage girl, were hurt after an argument led to a shooting overnight on the city's West Side. It happened just after 11:30 p.m. in the front yard of a residence in the ...