With the global COVID-19 pandemic still in full swing, people across the world are being advised to constantly wash their hands to avoid contracting the virus. However, for some this suggestion proves more challenging than others.

South Africa and Kenya are two nations suffering from water scarc...

The last four decades have seen Afghanistan exist as a nation ravaged by perpetual war following successive invasions by the Soviet Union and the United States. Today, left mainly on its own, Afghanistan remains in a state of civil unrest as its government continues its battle for hegemony agains...

The United States has seen more deaths from COVID-19 than any other nation in the world. With divided public opinion and legislative action, the United States has struggled to get a grasp on the pandemic and prevent its further spread.
Now under federal pressure to return to daily life, busines...

Most industries have felt adverse effects as COVID-19 continues to spread rapidly across the United States and Mexico; this includes the illicit world of drug trafficking.

Due to the economic hardships faced by people on both sides of the border, more people are turning to either purchasing or t...

In 2016 the Colombian government and rebels from the country’s largest militant group, the Leftist Revolutionary Armed Forces of Colombia—People's Army known as the FARC signed a pivotal accord hoping to bring an end to over four decades of civil war.

Though four years have passed since the cont...

‘Up North’ takes viewers to Norway, Russia and France to see how wildfires, lack of snow and melting ice are impacting daily life as temperatures continue to climb.

As Asia, Europe and North America make plans and work towards reopening their countries and economies; Latin America is still reeling from the COVID-19 pandemic.
With existing infrastructural challenges, dense and large populations and economic difficulty challenging its residents, Latin Americ...

The debate on racial equality has reached fever-pitch in the United States following the death of George Floyd. Floyd died of forced asphyxiation, handcuffed in police custody, sparking nationwide protests and outrage.

As protests, riots and a militarized police presence fills streets from coast...

Though the entire world is struggling to overcome the COVID-19 epidemic, no countries have been hit harder than the United States, Italy and Spain where infection and death tolls continue to climb.

With the epidemic continuing to grow, medical workers and first responders in these countries co...

Between 2014 and 2017 6.5 million people traveled to Germany attempting to call the country home. At the height of the refugee crisis, Germany was a preferred asylum destination for millions.

Attracted by Germany’s strong economy and social welfare state, 1.7 million sought asylum in the countr...

Nearly a million peopled unlawfully immigrated to the United States between 2013 and 2015 according to the Department of Homeland Security. Many of these immigrants claimed asylum at the United States’ southern Border with Mexico.
Fleeing violence, drug cartels and poverty these journeys continu...

St. Louis was once one of the largest cities in the United States, but today the city is in decline. The city that was once home to a population nearing a million and a healthy industry is now ravaged by poverty, crime, and violence.
Further complicating the city’s decay is endemic segregation ...

Since 2015 Europe has been divided in finding a response to the refugee crisis. Temporary camps endure and migrant vessels continue to capsize in the Mediterranean as the Europeans struggle to find a solution or compromise.

At the core of this stalemate, is a fundamental disagreement in what it...

Artificial intelligence (AI), it’s often categorized as ‘bleeding edge’ technology, believed to be the catalyst for the Fourth Industrial Revolution, a roadmap for the future. Though in its infancy, AI’s already showing signs of its potential; giving machines the ability to mimic and surpass huma...

Coal mining is ingrained in the Appalachian identity. As this region of the Eastern United States lagged in economic development, coal mining became its crutch, offering the only means of making living to thousands of Americans.

With environmental and profitability concerns on the rise; can this...

It’s been declared a public health emergency in the U.S., claiming 130 lives every day. And with more than 11.4 million people abusing prescription opioids, and hundreds of thousands turning to heroin for the first time, this is a crisis that is grappling an entire nation. The devastating consequ...

Two years after the deadly Charlottesville “Unite the Right” protests rattled the United States, the answers are still unclear: what did the protesters seek, what kind of society are they looking to create and how far will they go to achieve their goals?

White Space explores the state of race in...

It’s a conflict that’s defined a quarter century of global disorder. But how much of it needed to happen?

In response to the 9-11 attacks, the United States – with the help of a Western coalition – rushed into war with Iraq to combat what it stated was the country’s growing cache of nuclear weap...

It’s one of the biggest threats we’ve ever faced: trillions of pieces of plastic choking the very lifeblood of our earth, and every marine animal – from the smallest plankton to the largest mammals – being affected. With plastic being one of the most widely used materials all around the world, wh...

It’s one of the biggest threats we’ve ever faced: trillions of pieces of plastic choking the very lifeblood of our earth, and every marine animal – from the smallest plankton to the largest mammals – being affected. With plastic being one of the most widely used materials all around the world, wh...

At the height of Europe’s migrant crisis in 2015, more than one million people sought refuge on the continent. Many of them were fleeing war in Syria and Iraq, and most of them were welcomed, even as their numbers overwhelmed Europe’s outer reaches.

Today, the winds have changed. Borders are clo...

It’s one of the poorest countries in Latin America, and a hotbed for the international drug trade. With eight percent of the drugs that come into the United States passing through its borders, the mark left on Honduras is dark, and plagued with destruction. Here, traffickers control a trade so po...

The small coastal North African nation that was the birthplace of the Arab Spring is becoming the latest casualty in global terrorism. A longtime hotbed for ISIL recruitment, the U.N. estimates Tunisia has the highest per capita rate of foreign ISIL fighters of any nation in the world. But even a...