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Malaria Is Surging in Zimbabwe: How Aid Cuts and Climate Change Are Making It Worse
A mosquito bite can end a child's life — and in Zimbabwe right now, that risk is rising fast. Malaria cases are climbing sharply as foreign aid funding dries up and climate change creates more breeding grounds for the mosquitoes that carry the disease.
Melting Mountain Ice Is Uncovering Ancient Artifacts — and a Race Against Time
Frozen for thousands of years inside mountain ice patches, ancient tools, clothes, and even food scraps are now thawing out — and archaeologists have only days to collect them before they rot away forever.
3 min read · 2026-05-24
What Is a Pro Tem Speaker? Kerala's Assembly Gets a Temporary Chair Explained
When a new Assembly meets for the first time, it needs someone to run the room before a permanent Speaker is chosen — and that role, called Pro Tem Speaker, just went to Kerala's G. Sudhakaran, a veteran legislator with a remarkable political backstory.
3 min read · 2026-05-20
Does a Visiting Leader Have to Answer Questions? India's PM and the Press Conference Debate
When India's Prime Minister visited Norway without holding a press conference — following a similar pattern in the Netherlands — journalists and diplomats began asking: does a foreign visit require a leader to face questions from the press?
3 min read · 2026-05-19
Living Rocks That Are 3.5 Billion Years Old: Meet Earth's Oldest Organisms Still Alive
Rocks that breathe — sort of. In a tiny Canadian town called Flower's Cove, you can walk alongside thrombolites: mound-shaped living things that helped create Earth's oxygen billions of years before dinosaurs existed.
2 min read · 2026-05-15