Fed up of waiting for the city to tackle traffic fatalities, Angelenos are taking street safety into their own hands — one ...

Every time somebody flushes a toilet in Mannheim, they contribute to ecological shipping. Since March 2025, the German city’s wastewater treatment plant has been feeding an experiment of global ...

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Welcome back to our weekly behind-the-scenes glimpse at what’s getting our team talking. Tell us what you’ve been reading at [email protected] and we just might feature it here. When Samuel Salamone ...

This story is one in a series about the confluence of capitalism, conservation and cultural identity in the Mississippi River Basin. It is part of Waterline and is sponsored by the Walton Family ...

Cars and motorcycle taxis struggle through the deep potholes of the dusty road. Visiting Sandra Tembei’s company, Mellow Group, makes you forget that her carpentry workshop is located in Douala, ...

This article was originally published by The 19th, an independent, nonprofit newsroom reporting on gender, politics, policy and power. In the days leading up to Hurricane Irma’s landfall in September ...

Welcome back to our weekly behind-the-scenes glimpse at what’s getting our team talking. Tell us what you’ve been reading at [email protected] and we just might feature it here. America is unique ...

When Reasons to be Cheerful launched, a small group of generous individuals who believed in its mission helped to get it up and running. We called them the Founders Club. Today, the Founders Club ...

When Mount Etna in Sicily rumbled this spring, news outlets around the world flashed dramatic photos of lava and ash. But Martin Wikelski was skeptical. The biologist, who directs the Department of ...