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Ron Kern’s Back Forty Farms in Nampa has carved a popular and profitable value-added niche, shipping freeze-dried vegetables and eggs directly to customers throughout the country.

Given the inflation-bloated costs of owning a car--insurance, fuel, buying the dang thing in the first place--you may be looking for a cheaper way to get yourse

“It provides a forum for indigenous countries with similar economic issues and social problems to discuss and share experiences and solutions.” ...

Researchers evaluated the safety and non-inferiority of the pentavalent meningococcal NmCV-5 vaccine.

The bush and the Aboriginal world tap into knowledge systems and resources with metrics that revolve around people, place and culture.

For city folk, 'cutting edge' technology goes by gigahertz, gigabytes and RAM, but the bush has a sophisticated slowness to science and tech.

The Ashanti Regional Health Directorate is focusing on extending screening services on hypertension to Persons Living with Disabilities (PWDs) as Ghana joins the rest of the world to mark World Hypertension Day.

Bill Gates and Melinda French Gates gathered over the weekend to celebrate their daughter Jennifer's graduation, who welcomed her first child earlier this year

Lightweight sustainable 8m mini wind/solar powered fish­ing canoes could be the future for sustainable fishing transport for 10 women of five provinces....

In this issue, our feature highlights a Makah artist who preserves the stories of his ancestors and their reciprocal relationship to whales. We also follow two female botanists as they raft down the Grand Canyon in an attempt to make the first recorded, botanical survey of the region. Elsewhere, a FEMA contractor’s incompetence in translating Alaska Native languages shows systemic problems. In a Colorado coal town, the discovery of a 74 million-year-old fossil brings a new kind of tourism. A ...