As a child, Ken Nakazawa had an inexplicable fascination with the Grove Park Inn, a beautiful old stone hotel set on a mountainside a few miles from his family’s home in Asheville. He had no idea his grandmother had been held there as a detainee during World War II.

TED’s second Countdown Summit brought over 40 speakers to Detroit for TED Talks on climate change. The summit aimed to explore solutions to climate change by bringing together activists, scientists, policymakers and business executives from across the globe.

Last summer, ecology PhD student Camille DeSisto went on her fourth research trip to Madagascar. As the only non-native on her team for much of the trip, knowing how to speak Malagasy, one of the island country’s official languages, was critical for interacting with her local teammates.

Paul Whelan, the Novi resident and former Marine who the U.S. says has been wrongfully detained in Russia since 2018, spoke with U.S. Secretary of State Antony Blinken about the status of his detention.

Harmful algae blooms in Michigan and other states are spiking during the summer in freshwater bodies such as lakes, according to a recent CDC report.