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Companies across the region have vowed to find a use for the entirety of each fish they catch, from fertilizer to fish skin leather.

See what stories caught our attention this week, from a walkable neighborhood in Arizona to a house wrapped in cork.

When it comes to eradicating unwanted vegetation, these curious creatures have proven to be an earth-friendly alternative to herbicides.

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 ...

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 ...

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Reasons to be Cheerful is a non-profit editorial project that is part magazine, part therapy session, part blueprint for a better world.

Waterline is an ongoing series that explores the solutions making rivers, waterways and ocean food chains healthier. It is funded by a grant from the Walton Family Foundation. On a damp and grimly ...

Mark Colman has swum with turtles in Australia’s Great Barrier Reef, basked on a beach with marine iguanas in the Galapagos Islands, bungee jumped in New Zealand, braved the 166-story “edge walk” off ...

As new social spaces replace the pubs and bingo halls of yore, groups focused around physical activities offer a laid-back way to connect.

Reasons to be Cheerful is a nonprofit online magazine that is tonic for tumultuous times. We tell stories that reveal that there are, in fact, a surprising number of reasons to feel cheerful. Many of ...