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Freshwater crocodiles die every year in Australia from eating poisonous cane toads that humans introduced to the continent. Now scientists have found a way to teach the crocs to avoid the toxic toads.

After decades of devastating increases driven by fentanyl and other toxic street drugs, overdose deaths are dropping sharply in much of the U.S. The trend could mean roughly 20,000 fewer deaths in 2024.

The 20-year-old gunman came within a matter of inches of killing the former president, but investigators are still struggling to understand what may have motivated Thomas Matthew Crooks.

Join renowned social critic and New York Times contributor Eric Klinenberg as he presents his latest work, 2020: One City, Seven People, and the Year Everything Changed. An audience Q&A and book signing will follow the presentation. This event is free and open to the public. Reserved seating is available for you and a guest by pre-ordering a copy of 2020 from the Library Shop SD. About the Book: 2020 will go down alongside 1914, 1929, and 1968 as one of the most consequential years in history. This riveting and affecting book is the first attempt to capture the full human experience of that fateful time. At the heart of 2020 are seven vivid profiles of ordinary New Yorkers — including an elementary school principal, a bar manager, a subway custodian, and a local political aide — whose experiences illuminate how Americans and people across the globe reckoned with 2020. Through these poignant stories, we revisit our own moments of hope and fear, the profound tragedies and losses in our communities, the mutual aid networks that brought us together, and the social movements that hinted at the possibilities of a better world. Eric Klinenberg vividly captures these stories, casting them against the backdrop of a high-stakes presidential election, a surge of misinformation, rising distrust, and raging protests. We move from the epicenter in New York City to Washington and London, where political leaders made the crisis much more lethal than it had to be. We witnessed epidemiological battles in Wuhan and Beijing, along with the initiatives of scientists, citizens, and policymakers in Australia, Japan, and Taiwan, who worked together to save lives. Klinenberg allows us to see 2020 — and, ultimately, ourselves — with unprecedented clarity and empathy. His book helps us reckon with what we lived through and the challenges we face before the next crisis arrives. About the Author: ERIC KLINENBERG is the Helen Gould Shepard Professor in the Social Sciences and director of the Institute for Public Knowledge at New York University. He is the co-author of the #1 New York Times bestseller Modern Romance and author of Palaces for the People, Going Solo, Heat Wave, and Fighting for Air. He has contributed to The New Yorker, The New York Times Magazine, Rolling Stone, Wired, and This American Life. He lives in New York City. For additional information about the event, please visit here. Stay Connected with Eric Klinenberg! Facebook | Instagram | X

Premieres Tuesday, Aug.13, 2024 at 10 p.m. on KPBS TV / PBS App. Examine a racially complicated American city as it confronts both its past and future. Boston’s acting mayor, a black woman once bussed as a child to hostile neighborhoods, breaks 200 years of white male mayors and ushers in the historic 2021 mayoral race.

For two weeks, political controversy and online harassment had loomed over Khelif's participation in the Olympics. On Friday, she claimed Olympic gold and called her critics the "enemies of success."

With each launch, SpaceX has been discharging tens of thousands of gallons of industrial wastewater into sensitive wetlands. Environmentalists say an increase in launches will only make things worse.

UC San Diego’s Kimberly Prather is being honored by the National Academy of Sciences for her work in atmospheric chemistry. The honor recognized her efforts to understand aerosol particles and for her public guidance during the COVID-19 Pandemic.

Gliselle Marin joins the "Bat-a-thon," a group of 80-some bat researchers who converge on Belize each year to study these winged mammals.

Researchers have found that a warm, close bond with a sibling in early adult life is predictive of good emotional health later in life, with less loneliness, anxiety and depression.