In the December edition of our newsletter about creating positive change, we delve into how to make your holiday something ...

This article was originally published by Shelterforce, an independent newsroom reporting on affordable housing. The apartment complex had been condemned. Nicole Scarpa and her kids were given a week’s ...

Robert Lopez is a freelance writer based in North Carolina. He has worked in the journalism field for more than 20 years and has written for, among other publications, the Houston Chronicle, ...

Aimee Rawlins is a writer, editor and content strategist with over 15 years of journalism experience. She has held senior editorial roles at Fast Company and CNN, where she led coverage of ...

See what stories caught our attention this week, including a movement to ban octopus farms and a green infrastructure makeover for Brooklyn’s Prospect Park.

Fed up of waiting for the city to tackle traffic fatalities, Angelenos are taking street safety into their own hands — one ...

Every time somebody flushes a toilet in Mannheim, they contribute to ecological shipping. Since March 2025, the German city’s wastewater treatment plant has been feeding an experiment of global ...

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. When someone at the ...

When special-education teacher Thomas Ackermann comes home from work, he heads straight for the basement of his house in Aachen, Germany. Behind the door of his self-described “man cave” lies a ...

The first time Mike Martin held an AK-47 was after the 2012 shooting at Sandy Hook Elementary in Connecticut, which claimed the lives of 20 children and six adults. The shooting shocked a friend of a ...

This story is one in a series about the confluence of capitalism, conservation and cultural identity in the Mississippi River Basin. It is part of Waterline and is sponsored by the Walton Family ...