After a decade behind bars, it wasn’t the fields that stretched for kilometers around him that struck Nicolas when he first set foot on the farm. It was the smell. “I’ve been through six different ...

Milena Malanciuc clearly recalls the day she was sent to an orphanage, when she was just five. She had been playing in the park with her older cousin. On their return home, they found a large black ...

Juliette Fekkar is a Paris-based journalist covering climate, agriculture, energy and environmental issues. Her reporting has been featured in The Washington Post, Le Monde and France Info.

Matt Hudson grew up in Great Falls, Montana, and is a graduate of the University of Montana School of Journalism. He previously worked as a reporter for the Owatonna (Minn.) People's Press, the Daily ...

Lucas Dufalla is a reporter with the Arkansas Democrat-Gazette covering the Mississippi River Basin. Before moving to Arkansas, he worked at news outlets in Maine and Pennsylvania. He is a Report for ...

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Plug it in and switch it on — this simple renewables technology could open up the market to huge numbers of new citizens, including renters. Geothermal greenhouses are delivering what climate-minded ...

France’s prison farms allow those whose release dates are approaching to ‘breathe in and out fully’ before returning to life on the outside.

Peter Yeung is a Contributing Editor at Reasons to be Cheerful. A Paris-based journalist, he also writes for publications including the Guardian, the LA Times and the BBC. He’s filed stories from ...

Moldova has seen the number of children living in institutional care drop from 17,000 to 700. By 2027, the goal is to have none.

The NYC mayoral candidate has made history. Learn more about the groundbreaking measures he’s proposing, from free buses to city-owned supermarkets.

In the vast majority of countries, landfills are growing at an unsustainable rate. According to the International Solid Waste Association (ISWA), 40 percent of worldwide waste ends up in open, ...