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The University of Maryland will receive a $1.5 million gift from the Fishlinger Family Foundation to support the Robert H.

How did the Taliban seize power so quickly? While the weakness of the Afghan state was no secret, the speed of the Taliban’s victory stemmed from a little-appreciated factor: their ability to use Afghanistan’s human geography to exploit that state fragility. In particular, the country’s low population density empowers fast-moving and cohesive attackers.

Up to one-third of the Earth's food is never eaten, but two new projects by a University of Maryland environmental science and technology researcher (below) seek to turn this waste into marketable biofuel and bioplastic projects. From leftovers neglected in the fridge until they go bad to crops that spoil because of faulty storage, a shocking one-third of the world’s food—nearly 1.5 billion tons yearly, according to a United Nations estimate—goes uneaten.