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Peter Yeung is a Contributing Editor at Reasons to be Cheerful. A Paris-based journalist, he also writes for publications including the Guardian, the LA Times and the BBC. He’s filed stories from ...

“Gravity batteries” give former mines a second life — while offering an economic and environmental boost to communities once reliant on coal.

The “Stockholm tree pit” method was created to help trees thrive in paved-over urban spaces. Now, it’s taking root across Europe.

Since 2015, Magdas Hotel has helped refugees access jobs — while proving that a social business doesn’t have to sacrifice its bottom line.

A Patient Is a Person is a series about how whole-person health is transforming the patient journey. It is supported by funding from UPIC Health. A large mural of a teacup decorated with a green ...

Welcome back to our weekly behind-the-scenes glimpse at what’s getting our team talking. Let us know what you think at [email protected]. In an effort to reduce maternal and infant deaths, a project ...

This story was originally published by Yale Environment 360. Until recently, Henning Voigt’s 500-hectare farmland along the Peene River, near Germany’s northeastern Baltic Sea coast, was well-drained ...

If you take a stroll through a Pittsburgh city park, you might come across Hobo the donkey and his crew of 12 goats scrambling up an embankment or chowing down on poison ivy. Keep your dog on a leash, ...

Welcome back to our weekly behind-the-scenes glimpse at what’s getting our team talking. Let us know what you think at [email protected]. We all know that humans have immune systems, but did you know ...

It doesn’t take long to observe that the community of Awra Amba is unlike any other place in Ethiopia — or even the rest of the world. Here in the breathtaking highlands of northern Ethiopia, not far ...