Mongabay looks back at some of its coverage from 2024 on how local communities are trying to protect the world’s dwindling water resources.

The Time of Water follows Indigenous leaders Uyunkar Domingo Peas Nampichkai of the Achuar people from Ecuador and Wrays Pérez Ramírez of Peru .

Electric tricycles are a ticket to respect and prosperity for some rural women in Zimbabwe .

In many parts of rural sub-Saharan Africa , women have long been excluded from mainstream economic activities.

Three -wheelers powered by green energy are reversing that trend, offering financial opportunities and a sense of importance.

Mobility for Africa , a local startup, piloted the project in 2019 by leasing the vehicles to groups of women.

Nyevhe recorded details in her notebook, offered nutrition advice and referred severe cases to the local clinic.

“I am on 24-hour standby. I get calls during odd hours and have to rush people to the hospital. Sometimes it’s a pregnant woman who would have otherwise given birth at home in unsafe conditions,” she said.

Barbara Lee , a progressive icon and Black female trailblazer, is widely considered the front-runner in the April 15 election.

Lee is walking a careful line in how she addresses public safety in an Oakland that has become less permissive and more strident about punishing wrongdoers.

Her leading opponent is Loren Taylor , 47 , a former Oakland City Council member who supports using drones and surveillance cameras to fight crime.

But Carl Chan , a Chinatown community leader and recall leader, said he believes either Taylor or Lee will focus on the budget, public safety and economic revitalization. He hopes they will work together no matter who wins. “No one can fix our problems immediately,” he said. “We'll be very happy if we can stop the bleeding.”.

The National Medal of Honor Museum is set to open Tuesday in Arlington , Texas .

Over 3,500 people have received the medal of Honor, which is awarded by Congress for risking one's life in combat beyond the call of duty.

The museum's focus is on telling the life stories of the recipients, a senior official says.

U.N. agency urges Afghanistan 's Taliban rulers to immediately lift a lingering ban on girls' education.

Ban , said the agency, has deprived 400,000 more girls of their right to education.

Afghanistan is the only country in the world that bans female secondary and higher education.

The appeal comes as a new school year began in Afghanistan without girls beyond sixth grade.

Foreign Minister Cho Tae-yul made the remarks following his three -way talks with Chinese Foreign Minister Wang Yi and Japanese Foreign Minister Takeshi Iwaya in Tokyo .

The three Asian neighbors are seeking to maintain and advance the trilateral cooperation framework amid uncertainties in the economy and security.

Cho urged that North Korea should not be rewarded for its wrongdoings in Russia 's war against Ukraine .

A team of scientists with the Sea Mammal Research Unit , School of Biology, University of St Andrews , in the U.K. has found that gray seals are able to monitor their blood oxygen levels as a means to prevent drowning.

Prior research has shown that most land mammals have sensors that respond to the build-up of carbon dioxide in the blood, a sign that fresh air is needed.

E.B. Smith was a professor at the University of Maryland who wrote books on pre-Civil War presidents.

He knew his grandfather had once been a U.S. government asset, feeding Soviet -era intelligence to the CIA .

The Trump administration's release of more than 77,000 pages related to the 1963 assassination of President John F. Kennedy has shed little new light on the killing.

Robert North taught at Stanford University and wrote books on how people’s attitudes can influence the behavior of organizations and countries.

But outside the classroom, North fed U.S. officials intelligence he gleaned from geopolitical research.

He was a World War II veteran who fought Japanese soldiers in the 1944 Battle of Saipan .

His name appears newly unredacted on a memo detailing a surveillance operation gone wrong.

At its heart lies a class of hormones called strigolactones, which play dual roles.

They help control growth and the plants' response to stresses like insufficient water.

Once the weeds sense the presence of these hormones, they germinate and latch on to a crop's roots, draining them of essential nutrients.

The Affordable Care Act was signed into law on March 23, 2010 .

State officials say more than one million Pennsylvanians have insurance they didn't have prior to its signing.

The amount of those uninsured in Pennsylvania has been cut in half since 2010 .

The event took place on Thursday at the Hamilton Health center in Harrisburg .