The Deal That Brought the Colorado River Back to the Sea
A new amendment to the 1944 water treaty between Mexico and the United States aims to create a fair, cooperative system for restoring the Colorado River.
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The New Face of Hunger: How Statistics Underestimate the Food Problem
Today, 800 million of us are considered “hungry,” but we produce enough calories to feed us all. Rather than a lack of food, we’re dealing with a lack of democracy.
Another Extinction: Words We Use to Describe the Natural World
Why naturalists and their linguistic allies fight to keep the language that gives us our sense of place from falling out of modern dictionaries.
Waging Life in a War Zone
From Gaza’s colorful neighborhood to its underground theater, resistance is an art.
6 Cities Designing for Health
From Detroit to Edinburgh, these cities are helping residents live more healthful and equitable lives.
How Strong Friendships Defy Dementia
The Momentia movement uses strong social ties to ward off the effects of Alzheimer’s and dementia.
Will the TPP Set Back This Campaign to Stop a Proposed Coal Mine Near Montana Tribal Land?
The TPP makes the rights of companies sacrosanct, and that includes the right to mine. But what about the rights of people who live in the way of proposed mining sites?
Income Inequality Is a Health Hazard—Even for the Rich
A public health researcher explains why life expectancy in the United States is falling, and it has to do with income inequality rising.
My Year of Magical Tidying
How getting rid of two-thirds of my belongings created more space for joy.
After Trauma: A Graphic Journey Through Wild Healing
In this collection of watercolor illustrations, a comics artist illustrates her journey through grief after the sudden death of her first child.
It’s OK If Winter Makes You Sad
Four scientific strategies for an emotionally authentic holiday season.
Drug Use Down, Hope Up: A Canoe Journey Inspires Native Youth
Reversing the trauma of assimilation isn’t easy, but tribes believe that bringing ancestral values directly to the youth is the answer.
Latinos Live Longest Despite Poverty. Here’s Their Secret
U.S. Hispanics who pass down a tradition of food, family, and healing are healthier. But can they sustain that as generations become more assimilated?
Why Manning Up Is the Worst Thing to Do
Can we cure the toxicity of male trauma and the resulting illnesses it creates?
Bad-Weather Bicycling: 4 Tips to Stay Warm, Safe, and Dry
Bike more comfortably whether in rain, snow, or just frigid temperatures.
The “Honorable Harvest”: Lessons From an Indigenous Tradition of Giving Thanks
What if this holiday season we fill our shopping baskets with only that which is needed and give something back in return?
How College Students Are Resisting the Mental-Illness Stigma
Student-led organizations are bringing mental illness into the light to lower the suicide rates of young people.
As We Adapt to Climate Change, Who Gets Left Behind?
A new documentary shows planning options to mitigate a new climate, but questions about the global South are largely ignored.
How to Stop a Pipeline: The People Behind the Unist’ot’en Encampment
In British Columbia, a clan of the Wet’suwet’en First Nation has reoccupied its traditional lands in order to stop several proposed energy pipelines.
Only 1 Percent of the Earth’s Oceans Are Environmentally Protected
How the majority of life on Earth lives under the sea, and 22 other facts about our world today.
Gabor Maté: How to Build a Culture of Good Health
Physical well-being depends on more than keeping our bodies fit. Emotions and the people who come into our lives matter just as much.
The Curious Case of the Antidepressant, Anti-Anxiety Backyard Garden
Whether it's microbes in the dirt or fresh air—or both—researchers do know this: Gardening is strong medicine.
We Asked Our Favorite Illustrators What Debt Means to Them
Here's what they gave us, from comics to collage.
How Lentils Started an Underground Food Movement
Renegade farmers in Montana break from a long history of Big Ag and harmful monocrops.
The Color of Food: How Gardens and Farms Can Help Us Heal From a History of Racism
When we work together, share meals together, and laugh together, we’re repairing relationships with the soil as a community.
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