I'm sitting on a psychiatrist's couch in southern Japan, turning the pages of a manga by the artist Torisugari.

"If you want to win the climate change battle, it will be fought in the cities of the world," WRI President and CEO Andrew Steer told participants at a forum on the role of urban areas in the global shift to clean energy.

Temperatures recorded mainly in the northern hemisphere in the first six months of the year, coupled with an early and fast Arctic sea ice melt and "new highs" in heat-trapping carbon dioxide levels, point to quickening climate change

Social science journal editors are asking scholars to produce “impossible results” and creating an environment that encourages “questionable research practices”, according to two academics who have studied the “grey zone” between ethical and unethical research.

Some maintain that they can drop the policy and preserve access, but those who have gone need blind have seen gains in student diversity.

Sajida had just begun her university education at the Engineering Technical Institute in Damascus when the bombs began to fall.

Five years ago, Du Juan, a native of Chengdu, Southwest China's Sichuan province, was wondering where to go for work after she graduated from Michigan State University.

British archaeologists working on the Must Farm project in England's Cambridgeshire Fens can hardly restrain themselves.

Should an HBCU founded by black Civil War veterans shutter its history department, against the recommendation of a faculty committee?

Few school districts focus on which colleges and universities post high graduation rates for their students.