Health

Mining's toxic timebomb: dams full of poisonous waste are dotted around the world. What happens when they burst?

While tailings dams are meant to last for ever, extreme weather events are making many unstable – with devastating consequences for nature and humans

In my 20s ‘treat ’em mean, keep ’em keen’ felt like power. In my 50s I see that dating strategy for what it is: fear

I am capable, a woman of substance. Yet I get a ‘maybe’ from a man I meet on a dating app and I regress three decades

South African photographer Zanele Muholi: ‘My mother worked for a white family. I remember the pools I wasn’t allowed to swim in’

The artist has spent three decades changing the face of African art, and has just won the prestigious Hasselblad award. But they say the win isn’t about them – it’s for under-represented people still living with the echoes of Apartheid

‘Not Going Down Without A Fight’: Hundreds Testify Against Connecticut Bills Expanding State Vaccine Powers

A marathon Connecticut legislative hearing lasting more than 14 hours drew oral and written testimony from over 2,000 parents, medical professionals and community members — most opposing two proposed bills that would expand the state health department’s authority over vaccine recommendations and reinforce the state’s ban on religious exemptions for school immunization requirements.

Men Are Struggling. Can an App Help Them?

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The Dieting Myth That Just Won’t Die

How a 50-year-year-old study about milkshakes duped psychology