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By Sylvia Earle April 17, 2024 7:07 AM EDT Imagine navigating negotiations for a legal framework governing human activities over and under about half of the world. That has been the challenge facing Rena Lee, Singapores ambassador for oceans and law of the sea issues and the president of a U.N. intergovernmental conference on marine

In September of 476 AD, the barbarian commander Odoacer forced the teenaged Western Roman emperor Romulus Augustus to resign his office. The Constantinopolitan chronicler Marcellinus Comes would write in the 510s that when Odoacer, king of the Goths, took control of Rome the Western Empire of the Roman people perished. But no one thought

If you were really a member of the global lite, you'd know this already: the world is ruled by a powerful, secretive few. Many of the rest of us peons have heard that in 2004 both candidates for the White House were members of Yale University's secretive Skull and Bones society, many of whose members

This age-old act of intimacy might hold a key to warding off this formidable disease. But is there any truth to the claim that indulging in 21 romps a month could be the ultimate shield against prostate cancer?

A few days ago, I walked into my office in the Time-Life Building and nearly slipped on a thick magazine tucked under my door: Sports Illustrateds annual Swimsuit Issue. I blogged that day expressing my mild annoyance at this unwanted gift. Since then, Ive been hit with a mini-tsunami of responses from readers and colleaguesnot