Category: Science
Wildlife Photographer Cristina Mittermeier on the Starving Polar Bear, Climate Change and Women in Science
LONDON AND VANCOUVER ISLAND VIA EMAIL--It was the "soul-crushing" video that went viral across the globe; a starving polar bear on Canada's Baffin Island having to scavenge through garbage for food.…
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Planned Parenthood Global’s Move to Kenya–A She-Files Exclusive
NAIROBI—I first heard that Planned Parenthood Global-- the international arm of the Planned Parenthood Federation of America--had moved their head office from New York to Nairobi during a girls’ power…
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Her Stories: When No One Brings You a Casserole
DALLAS, TEXAS--It had already been a long, emotionally draining week. I was tired, bone tired. The kind of tired that made me want to crawl into a corner and stay…
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Summer Reading List: Laura Shapiro’s “What She Ate”
LONDON--I first heard about journalist and food writer Laura Shapiro's new book "What She Ate: Six Remarkable Women and Food That Tells Their Stories" two years ago at a wedding…
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An American in Tsavo: Cheetahs, Children and Conservation
LONDON AND TSAVO VIA SKYPE—I first heard about Cherie Schroff from a Kenyan-based American conservationist and safari guide. Over dinner one night in Karen, a southern suburb of Nairobi named…
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The Deaths of India’s Invisible Mothers
NEW DELHI--In October 2015, the state police in Bangalore, India’s IT city, found the body of a seven-month-old baby girl in a water sump. Her mother confessed to killing her…
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Q&A: Mindy Solomon Weighs In on Eating Disorders and Giftedness
DENVER—Stories about eating disorders are ubiquitous in the news: celebrity confessions, from recent ones like U.S. Olympic ice skater Nancy Kerrigan to boy band One Direction's Zayn Malik, reignite the…
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India’s Mothers Demand Maternity Entitlements
LONDON--Babloo is too short for his age. In India, and especially in the poor eastern state of Bihar that borders Nepal, that is unfortunately not unusual. Two of every five…
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Her Stories: When Rare Disease Day Becomes Personal
WASHINGTON, DC--They are the words no parents want to ever say: “Please don’t let my baby need a liver transplant!” I couldn’t believe that sentence was even coming out of my…
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Her Stories: What It Takes To Be a Triathlete
LONDON--Swim. Cycle. Run. Do those three one after another - adding some fairly comedy costume changes in between - and you can call yourself a triathlete. These days it seems,…
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