Individual storytelling is incredibly powerful. We as journalists know intuitively what scientists of the brain are discovering through brain scans, which is that emotional stories tend to open the portals, and that once there's a connection made, people are more open to rational arguments.

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.

There are ten times as many sex slaves transported around the globe today as agrarian slaves were transported in the 1790s.

I try to be careful about wording. One of the things I've tried to combat in my blog is the notion that journalists are arrogant and unconcerned with the readership.

America's education system has become less a ladder of opportunity than a structure to transmit inequity from one generation to the next.

A few countries like Sri Lanka and Honduras have led the way in slashing maternal mortality.

The world spends $40 billion a year on pet food.