Unite to Light sends solar lamps and chargers to Lahaina

The nonprofit co-founded at UC Santa Barbara teams with Direct Relief to provide efficient and clean sources of light and electricity to the Maui community left decimated by wildfires.

Read more about assisting recovery efforts in Lahaina

Our plastic waste can be used as raw material for detergents, thanks to an improved catalytic method

Creating surfactants from waste plastics can circumvent fossil fuel-burning processes that go into making detergents, while giving single-use plastics another shot at usefulness.

Read more about how researchers have reimagined the value of plastic trash

Remoteness did little to reduce COVID-19 spread to Amazonian Tsimané

Voluntary collective isolation alone is ineffective to mitigate the spread of infectious diseases into small-scale, remote Indigenous communities, according to a new study in PLOS Biology.

Read more about the vulnerability of remote populations