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By THOMAS JOHNSTON

Not many 9-year-old kids are faced with the type of decision Noah Gamache had to make. Gamache — now a senior at Pioneer Valley Regional — was born with clubfoot, a birth defect in which the foot is twisted out of shape or position. As he grew up, two...

By GARRETT COTE

COLUMBUS, Ohio — Wartburg’s Sarah Faber stepped back and let fly a 3-pointer in the waning moments of regulation against Smith College in the NCAA Division 3 Final Four on Thursday night. If she missed, the Pioneers would go to their first-ever...

By AALIANNA MARIETTA

One hundred and fifty years ago in Lake Pleasant, horse-drawn wagons shuffled along dirt roads lined in tents, cottages and boathouses. Steamboats raced along the lake while swimmers played water games, hot air balloons flying over their heads....

By ISHAAN THAROOR

It’s hard to ignore the sense of desperation in Ukraine’s corridors of power. Nearing two years since Russia launched its full-scale invasion, authorities in Kyiv maintain their long-standing entreaty to partners in the West: Deliver us more arms,...

By WILLIAM LAMBERS

Both the college and pro basketball seasons are heating up now with games every day. I was watching my alma mater Mount St. Joseph University play Bluffton University of Ohio and wondering if basketball could draw attention to global hunger. There are...

By CORINNE PURTILL

Earth has millions of fungi species, but the official emoji library has only one: Amanita muscaria, the red-capped, white-spotted mushroom found in fairy tale picture books and Super Mario Brothers.A staggering 180,000 species of butterflies and moths...

By RODDY SCHEER and DOUG MOSS

Dear EarthTalk: What sort of environmental toll are the major military conflicts going on around the world now taking?— J.D., Salem, NHNo one questions the fact that war is horrible, and it is no less so for the environment. And recent major conflicts...

By WILLIAM LAMBERS

It was Thanksgiving in 1963 when a group of 25 people in Plymouth, Massachusetts had an idea: Let’s skip Thanksgiving dinner. These men and women, in the town where America’s first Thanksgiving was held by the Pilgrims, decided to fast at Plymouth’s...

By WILLIAM LAMBERS

Imagine what Lt. A.J. Roemmick was thinking as he left the trenches in France to attack German troops on Nov. 11, 1918. World War I was still raging.As Roemmick entered the “no-man’s land” that separated the American forces from enemy German forces,...

By ALEXANDER MACDOUGALL

Saying that “there is a different path” in Gaza, U.S. Rep. Jim McGovern and six other Democratic lawmakers are calling for a cease-fire in the war between Israel and Hamas that has killed more than 4,000 people on both sides. The lawmakers released a...

By WILLIAM LAMBERS

As we mark the 60th anniversary of President John F. Kennedy signing the Limited Nuclear Test Ban Treaty, there is some very alarming news. Reports of increased activity at the nuclear weapons test sites of Russia, China and the U.S. are raising fears...

By WILLIAM LAMBERS

As we celebrate the birthday of the U.S. Air Force, let’s remember what one of its first missions represented: hope.For today with so much suffering abroad from conflict and climate change, the world needs hope.The Air Force was officially established...

DIYA SABHARWAL

Last month, it was reported that OpenAI — the company behind the generative AI chatbot ChatGPT — was on track to make $1 billion in revenue this year from user subscriptions and by licensing its technology to other companies. ChatGPT was introduced...

By WILLIAM LAMBERS

As Congress works on the new Farm Bill, lawmakers should remember that the simple school meal can make a big difference around the world. It always has.Just last week, the charity Mary’s Meals announced the restarting of school lunches in the Tigray...

By MARY BYRNE

GREENFIELD — After receiving no responses to its request for proposals, the Greenfield Redevelopment Authority is beginning to discuss its options for moving forward with respect to the First National Bank, including the potential for demolishing the...

By MARYDIANE BAKER

At a “meet and greet” town hall hosted by U.S. Sen. Bernie Sanders at the Senior Center in Brattleboro on Aug. 10, Action Corps Vermont presented him with a petition signed by almost 900 people across the country, including many Vermonters, asking for...

By SUZANNE R. CARLSON

Watching the film “Oppenheimer,” I resented the sound and visual distractions and the lack of the horrors of the effects of atomic/nuclear weapons on the people and environment around the New Mexico test site (July 16, 1945) and those of Hiroshima and...

By MARY BYRNE

GREENFIELD — With a request for redevelopment proposals garnering no responses, the future of the former First National Bank remains uncertain. Mayor Roxann Wedegartner said she doesn’t expect that the city, in collaboration with the Greenfield...

By WILLIAM LAMBERS

The first atomic bomb test in New Mexico on July 16, 1945 opened the door to the dangerous nuclear arms races we have seen ever since. J. Robert Oppenheimer, a leader in the Manhattan Project that developed the atomic bomb during World War II, thought...

By VICTORIA MILKO

JAKARTA, Indonesia — The International Seabed Authority – the United Nations body that regulates the world’s ocean floor – is preparing to resume negotiations that could open the international seabed for mining, including for materials critical for...

By WILLIAM LAMBERS

Major League Baseball has produced many classic, inspiring moments over the years, including the World Series. But one of its most noble efforts is not well known.It was during the Second World War, when Major League Baseball launched a plan to raise...