Svati Kirsten Narula

First-hand account of being at Mount Everest Base Camp on April 25, 2015

The UK will be accepting "thousands more" Syrian refugees by expanding its current program of resettling thos…

Foreign countries and international agencies have pledged $4.1 billion to aid Nepal's recovery after the Apri…

Much of what biologists know about octopuses-or what they knew until recently-is captured beautifully in " De…

A recent study by agricultural economists at the University of California, Davis, suggests that America’s lov…

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Too often, says ecologist Andrew David Thaler, projects like floating plastic-filter machines amount to littl…

The clean-food movement has ambitions to eventually feed the next billion people on earth. Silicon Valley ven…

The worst accident in the mountain's history has effectively ended the 2014 climbing season. And some see glo…

Thanks to the rise of marine protected areas (MPAs), the global ocean is becoming increasingly partitioned. T…

The most dangerous steps on Everest are taken between 18,000 and 21,000 feet, and they're steps that many Wes…

What does it mean to be a tourist inside someone else's suffering? A conversation with Leslie Jamison, au…

Very few of us have what it takes to run a mile the way Alan Webb can run a mile. What it takes, though, is s…

In 2007, Otis Chandler developed a social network for bookworms because, rather than relying on media reviews…

I'm not ashamed of my name, but I prefer to reserve conversations about it for less hurried, less public inte…

Stuck at the South Pole during its coldest, darkest season? Find a sauna, grab some bunny boots, and join the…

Every year, on the first Saturday in January, Japan makes a grand statement to the global fishing community b…