Thanks to the rise of collective giving groups, you don’t have to be Bill Gates to watch your money create transformative change.

Long central to many Native communities, such traditions can foster the redistribution of wealth and help counter long-term harm.

The Footprint Project has built nearly 50 solar microgrids post-Helene — and aims to create a “lending library” to deploy in the wake of disasters.

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Esperance Dushakimana looks at her field of potato in Musanze district in North Rwanda. “It is hard,” she says. “We till the land, sow the seeds, reap the harvest and then watch helplessly while at ...

The outlook for today’s commercially cultivated coffee species is grim. One promising solution is growing wild in our forests.

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Women are still underrepresented in medical research. But thanks to trailblazers like cardiologist Marianne Legato and patient advocate Carolyn Thomas, that’s starting to change.

On a gray morning this past March, a half-dozen scientists scanned the sea while bobbing offshore of Chile’s Atacama Desert. When an enormous whale surfaced, their small boat zoomed over to meet it.

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