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 ...

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

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Seeking to combat the root causes of health disparities, an innovative initiative focuses on access to food, transportation and housing. A growing movement seeks to make communities more physically ...

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

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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 ...

New and old ways to share wedding outfits and other supplies are slowly changing mindsets — while keeping the exuberance of the celebrations alive.