I have often tried to tell the story of a place through people there.

Women aren't the problem but the solution. The plight of girls is no more a tragedy than an opportunity.

There could be a powerful international women's rights movement if only philanthropists would donate as much to real women as to paintings and sculptures of women.

Rising seas create a higher baseline for future storm surges. The New York City Panel on Climate Change has projected that coastal waters may rise by two feet by 2050 and four feet by the end of the century.

The trails are a reminder of our insignificance. We come and go, but nature is forever. It puts us in our place, underscoring that we are not lords of the universe but components of it...So when the world seems to be falling apart, when we humans seem to be creating messes everywhere we turn, maybe it's time to rejuvenate in the cathedral of the wilderness - and there, away from humanity, rediscover our own humanity.

Every year 3.1 million Indian children die before the age of 5, mostly from diseases of poverty like diarrhea.

Americans of faith should try as hard to save the lives of African women as the lives of unborn fetuses.