Across the globe, clean hydrogen production is on the rise. For former coal towns like Vernon, Texas, it could provide a lifeline.

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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

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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 ...