The ocean is filled with shipwrecks, but its vastness makes them extremely difficult to find, especially if you’re not exactly sure where to look. While amazing discoveries are possible, disappearances are too. And vanishing is exactly what three Dutch warships from WWII recently did. The three ships were discovered in…

For the past two decades, the Washington, D.C.-based City Kids program has been helping at-risk kids from low-income neighborhoods in numerous ways. One such method includes getting inner-city youth off the streets and into the great outdoors in some of our country’s most treasured National Parks. This initiative is geared…

The Sierra Club and Latino Outdoors organizations in Oregon collaborated with The Next Door to offer free Spanish-language hike leader training at the end of last month. The training, which took place on Indian Creek Trail in Hood River, covered the essential skills required for preparing and going on a…

The U.S. spends approximately $12.6 billion on pet supplies and over-the-counter medication annually, but a new drug treatment could potentially reduce that cost and add four years to the lives of dogs everywhere. Scientists have recently found that the anti-rejection medicine rapamycin, a drug used in humans with kidney transplants,…

According to a study published last week in the International Journal of Health Services, Hispanic youths are only half as likely as their white counterparts to receive mental health care despite having similar rates of mental health issues. The study used data from the Medical Expenditure Panel Survey, which covered…

Ah, sleep. One of life’s most elusive mysteries. It always seems like we need more of it than we have available. Those who constantly wage this war might be interested in knowing which day of the week is best for sleep. A new study from the data analytics company Firstbeat…

In the last two decades, patent and trademark lawsuits have increased from 500 annually to an average of nearly 3,000 annually, and big corporations like Kentucky Fried Chicken are no exception, apparently. KFC launched a Hispanic marketing campaign last year that brought back its famous slogan “finger lickin’ good” —…

While one-fourth of customers who pay their bills electronically only have to worry about an improved relationship with their biller, some don’t have that luxury. Puerto Rico is nearly $72 billion in debt, and they’re searching for ways to resolve it. Enter Lin-Manuel Miranda, the creator of the wildly popular…

According to the United States Department of Education, there are now more minority students in U.S. K-12 school systems than there are white students. Despite that, there still seems to be a lack of minority educators, specifically from the Latino community. New data from the Education Department’s Office of Civil…

Recently, General Motors announced that they would continue to manufacture automobiles without airbags until 2019 in Mexico. In the wake of this shocking announcement, Consejo de Latinos Unidos (CDLU), a Hispanic consumer advocacy group and public charity in the United States, officially denounced General Motors, accusing the auto company of…