In central Zambia, an estimated 170,000 to 200,000 residents are exposed to some of the highest lead levels ever recorded in soil — up to 60,000 mg per kilogram. Children there have tested with blood ...

As someone who watches and studies the Academy Awards every year, I can tell you that the Best Documentary Short Subject nominees are frequently heavy, and often depressing. This milieu is often ...

Once punished for skipping class, Singaporean filmmaker Tan Siyou turns teenage rebellion into a globally celebrated film – a fitting story for International Women's Day (8 March).

Native stories, interspecies friendships, space travel and a history-making young paleontologist are on the bill for this annual event. By Laurel Graeber You might not expect to find Alana Gishlick in ...

Enhancing Sensibility In our contemporary culture, we have lost our age-old tradition of intergenerational transmission of stories through spoken word, and our children have lost their romance with ...

Pirates of the Caribbean: Curse of the Black Pearl, Shrek 2, and Spy Kids are all among the very best family movies of the ...

It’s not simply that kids’ culture has improved since I was young. Across stage, screen and cinema, grownup offerings pale in comparison to those aimed at my son World Book Day dawns once more, with ...

The men and women hold signs, but do not speak. Words in Hebrew on their placards — each bearing the face of a child — do all the talking: “Ahmed Abu Sief, 9 yrs old. Was and is no more, May 7, 2025.” ...

Two-time Oscar nominee Maite Alberdi continues to dance on the line between fiction and nonfiction, but her hybrid approach has a limited payoff in this story of a Mexican woman's faked pregnancy.