Minnesota inmates find creative outlet, therapeutic benefit in writing programs

The nonprofit FreeWriters offers writing workshops in jails, encouraging expression and reflection as a means of addressing mental health struggles.
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Mexico, conservation group boost efforts to save tiny vaquita porpoise

The Mexican government announced a new agreement with conservation group Sea Shepherd on Tuesday aimed at boosting protection of the endangered vaquita porpoise, as the world's smallest cetacean nears extinction.
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Wulf and Eadwacer: why I think I've solved the mystery of this Old English poem

Here, possibly four centuries before women are given a significant voice in heroic poetry in Germany and Scandinavia, a queen speaks out in an English version of a Gothic story.
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The burials that could challenge historians' ideas about Anglo-Saxon gender

Skeletons found with items that don’t align with their estimated sex are usually excluded from research – but that assumes a 19th century view of gender.
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Human voices are scarier than a lion's growl for savannah animals

Animals at watering holes in South Africa were twice as likely to flee in response to recordings of humans talking compared with sounds of lions
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‘There’s nothing like this’: Firefighters unleash new bushfire war machine

Dozens of fires are burning as the state braces for a potentially terrifying bushfire season. The RFS is firing up a new weapon to help save homes and lives.
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For years, Japan tried to keep their existence a secret. But the Ainu people refuse to disappear

Japan's Ainu people have their own history, languages and culture. But, as the victims of colonialism, assimilation and discrimination, much of that identity has been lost. This is the story of their fight to be recognised.
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