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.

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

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

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

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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 ...

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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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Iris Brilliant grew up in a wealthy family. Despite all the opportunities this offered, something about it felt deeply uncomfortable to her. “I felt like the only thing that mattered in affluent ...