I remember the day I found out you weren’t required to go to camp over the summer, the same way you had to go to school during the year. I was still in elementary school and my friend told me she went ...

I finally made it to Florence for my study abroad program, which I am grateful for on so many levels. I’m absorbing a new culture and planning to travel across Europe over the next few months. I ...

The sun sets behind a coal-fired power plant owned by the Uniper energy company in Gelsenkirchen, Germany. Energy costs have soared in Europe since Russia's invasion of Ukraine. (Michael Sohn / ...

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For years, Antonio Scognamillo paid $1,200 a month to power La Smorfia, his cozy pizzeria offering dozens of styles of pies in this hilly, medieval tourist enclave by the Ligurian Sea. That was before ...