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Antarctica is shedding ice at an accelerating rate. Satellites monitoring the state of the White Continent indicate some 200 billion tonnes a year are now being lost to the ocean as a result of melting.
When Alessandro Leonardi began his graduate degree in forestry a decade ago at the University of Padova in Italy, forestry students rarely came near a business school classroom — courses in business administration, finance or marketing weren’t part of the curriculum.
Walmart and other large employers are turning to for-profit Guild Education to manage tuition-reimbursement programs. Walmart's offer promises a debt-free college education to its employees, but academic program choices are limited.
Most college students in the US are making plans for the summer. For some of the many Puerto Rican college students who came to the mainland to continue their studies after Hurricane Maria roared through the island last September, this time of the year brings a more complex question — whether to stay or go back home.
As with any tragedy there is shock -- this is what America's allies are experiencing right now. Other emotions will follow: anger, resentment, and the desire for retribution likely among them.
Taxi app company Uber has applied for a patent to use artificial intelligence to determine how drunk potential passengers might be.
Almost four years after it began testing the idea of underwater data centers, Microsoft is sinking even more resources into the experiment.
Subscriptions to academic journals are costing leading UK universities almost £4 million a year on average, new figures reveal.
First, New York state started offering free college tuition to middle-class residents. Now, Pennsylvania lawmakers want to see something similar–– but some area residents, including a local lawmaker, are questioning such a move.
A UK university faces being forced to close its engineering teaching facility after the local council refused to grant retrospective planning permission and raised concerns about potential health risks to students.
