In Mexico, Fish Poachers Push Endangered Porpoises to Brink
China’s lucrative black market for fish parts is threatening the vaquita, the world’s most endangered marine mammal.
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Australian scheme for North Korean students launched
North Korean students who have defected to South Korea are to be sent on a study abroad programme to Australia to improve their English, amid wider concerns that defectors fail to succeed in education after escaping from the Pyongyang regime.
Trump U in the Spotlight
State regulators, not the federal government, were in the best position to crack down on Donald Trump's now-defunct educational venture, which has become a hot campaign issue.
Chicago State University sends layoff notices to all 900 employees
Chicago State University sent notices of potential layoffs to all of its 900 employees Friday, yet another sign of the escalating budget crisis for the Far South Side public institution that stems from the state's budget impasse.
When a Joke Isn’t Funny
Online group of scholars of planning and geography divided over one professor’s sexist humor – and how others reacted to it.
Why companies see circular thinking as an emerging strategy
Dame Ellen MacArthur sailed around the world solo in 2001 in a nonstop three-month journey.
Robot librarian designed by Aberystwyth University students
A walking, talking library robot could soon be lightening – or removing – the human librarian’s load after a prototype was created by robotics students.
Decades of falling student performance spur college officials to re-examine class duration at Trident Tech
Cory Bazzle is a former Marine. After five years in the armed forces and one deployment to Iraq, she’s used to long hours, sacrifice and hard work.
NE China clearing space for resurgent endangered species
Officials in northeast China are planning a resident resettlement and afforestation project to double the size of a key migration corridor for wild Siberian tigers and Amur leopards ...
Mob calls for assaults on foreigners in Sweden; clashes at UK migrant protests
Tensions over Europe's migrant crisis led to arrests and violence in Sweden and the UK over the weekend,
