Loneliness is more than a personal struggle; it’s a public health crisis. A recent Harvard study found that one in five Americans regularly feels lonely, with the number even higher among young adults ...

C reatively repurposing art and craft materials has a long history. But an early pioneer of this type of creative reuse center emerged in San Francisco in the 1970s.Artists seeking supplies for ...

T he Colorado River once fanned across the Yuma Valley, lined by craggy volcanic peaks. Seasonal muddy torrents spread water and nutrient-rich sediments across the floodplain. Ribbons of green spread ...

U nadorned houses and gray sidewalk slabs line the street of the Katendrechtse Lagendijk neighborhood. Here in the Charlois district in the south of the Dutch port city of Rotterdam, the dreariness is ...

This story has been co-published by Reasons to be Cheerful and the Outrider Foundation.. F or centuries, tall sailing ships quietly navigated the planet’s waterways, trading and delivering needed ...

M aidu fire practitioner Danny Manning twirls a traditional fire stick made from an elderberry plant between his hands, rubbing it against a fire board until the first ember forms. He kindles it with ...

Wörgl earned its place in history thanks to its Depression-era community currency. Credit: Hannes Mallaun / Shutterstock. Community currencies — alternative forms of money sometimes also referred to ...

A ccording to the National Golf Foundation, there were almost four million fewer golfers in 2024 than in 2003.The cost to operate a private golf club can be as much as $1 million annually, and with ...

This is part two of a two-part series on ways that coal infrastructure is being repurposed to meet the needs of renewable energy. Read part one here.. For four decades, the Oklaunion Power Plant has ...

Father Vincent Ngwira is a man who follows the way, the truth and the light. As a Catholic priest, the 44-year-old Zambian has held congregations across the south African nation, sharing the good word ...

The South Bay Salt Pond Restoration Project has been underway since 2003. Credit: Cris Benton. The Hopi tribe’s 2,000-year-old dry farming method allows them to grow a wide range of crops in an area ...

T he story of Ox began in 2013, when Sir Torquil Norman, the British pilot and toy entrepreneur famous for creating the Polly Pocket line of dolls, tasked the Formula 1 race car designer Gordon Murray ...