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Humanitarian OpenStreetMap Team

The rise of collaborative mapping for the masses

Collaborative projects for mapping in disaster, health, and conflict situations are on the rise around the world as satellite technologies improve, becoming accessible for a much wider range of people worldwide.

Global Fishing Watch

‍The deadly secret of an invisible armada

Desperate North Korean fishermen are washing ashore as skeletons because of the world's largest illegal fleet.

Institute for Protein Design

9 eye-opening facts about antibiotic resistance — and 1 hopeful approach to overcoming it

For years, scientists have been warning us about the alarming rise in drug-resistant bacteria — but it doesn’t have to be our future.‍

Looking beyond the lowest-common denominator? DFID/FCO merger

The progress on ending extreme poverty, preventable child deaths, gender equality and climate change was too hard won to be sidelined.

Contact tracing programs have to work with local communities to be successful

To gain the public’s trust, experts say officials should work with community members when they develop contact tracing programs.

Bolstering Africa’s coronavirus detection efforts

Molecular biologist Christian Happi is working around the clock to get testing available throughout the continent.

Op Ed: It’s time to invest in community infrastructure

Today in America, you have Covid-19 bringing biblical plague to the black community. The job loss is already at depression level, and now you have civil unrest following the killing of George Floyd. We must build a cradle to career set of supports for children, improve housing and health care, and ultimately help support and strengthen families and neighborhoods.

Crisis Text Line

Text Message Crisis Help Line Speeds Up Expansion Amid Pandemic

With the COVID-19 pandemic driving a mental health emergency, a service providing support for people in crisis via text messages is speeding up expansion plans to add four new languages in the next two and a half years.

Pandemics know no borders: In Africa, regional collaboration is key to fighting COVID-19

Recent experiences with Ebola are fresh in peoples’ minds across West and Central Africa, as are those with TB and HIV/AIDS in Southern Africa. As a result, African countries understand the need for regional coordination in overcoming public health challenges.

A reality check on how devastating it is to keep kids away from schools

CEO of the Harlem Children’s Zone, Kwame Owusu-Kesse and New York Times Education Reporter Eliza Shapiro join Stephanie Ruhle to discuss the lasting impact of closing schools and the argument to open them up as soon as possible.

Harvard and MIT researchers are developing a face mask that lights up when it detects the coronavirus

For the past six years, bioengineers at MIT and Harvard have been developing sensors that can detect viruses including the ones that cause Zika and Ebola. They're adapting their technology to screen for the new coronavirus.

Why Infectious Diseases Like COVID-19 Make Science Move So Fast

Scientific endeavors to better understand SARS-COV-2, the virus that causes COVID-19, have progressed rapidly. Within weeks of the virus emerging in humans, scientists had already identified it and sequenced the virus’s genome, giving researchers a target on which to train potential vaccines and treatments.