For the first series from the Headway initiative, we followed up on forecasts from decades past to ask what the passage of time has revealed.
02/12/2021
Nine years after Hurricane Sandy, residents of Lower Manhattan are still vulnerable to rising seas. The fight over a plan to protect them reveals why progress on our most critical challenges is so hard.
Hindsight is a series from the Headway team looking back at predictions and promises from the past. As the 2009 global climate summit in Copenhagen approached, the European Union raced to announce an ambitious target for reducing greenhouse gas…
In 2001, U.N. estimates suggested 150 million people would be infected with H.I.V. by 2021. That preceded an ambitious global campaign to curb the virus. How well did it work?
Cargill, Nestle, Carrefour and others pledged to reach net-zero deforestation in their supply chains by 2020.
The 17-month-old girl waddled down the hall of the nursing home in her furry pumpkin costume, gripping her Halloween booty. Masaru Furukawa, the child’s next-door neighbor in Spring Green, Wis., as well as her primary-care doctor, had taken his two…
New research published in the journal Nature suggests that the prints, discovered in Tanzania in 1976, were left by an unidentified hominin, or early human ancestor, more than 3.6 million years ago.
01/12/2021
Archaeologists found the remains of a person buried at Herculaneum in the eruption of 79 A.D., and hope that with modern technology it will yield fresh insights.
While ankylosaurs are already known for their armor and club tails, this specimen from South America had a unique way of fighting predators.
There’s not a one-size-fits-all answer to the question, but here are several things to consider before buying your child their own electronic device.
Unlike Alpha, Beta and Delta, the name of the latest known variant is not as straightforward, with some English speakers offering up diverse pronunciations.
It’s unclear who checked out “New Chronicles of Rebecca” by Kate Douglas Wiggin from a library in Boise, or who had it all these decades. But the book remained in immaculate shape.
