In 2005, after Hurricanes Ivan and Katrina devastated the state, then-Alabama Department of Insurance commissioner Jim Ridling was surveying storm damage when a thought dawned on him. Realizing that ...

In Glen Burnie, Maryland, Springer Blankenship spends most of his off days traipsing through overgrown lawns. The Navy veteran volunteers with I Want To Mow Your Lawn, a nonprofit that provides free ...

Scientists can’t be everywhere all at once, as much as they’d like to. Many of the problems citizen science helps solve are concerned with spreading the net wider — or getting more helping hands on ...

When life feels overwhelming, many people instinctively turn to nature. A walk in a park. Sitting by the ocean. Watching a sunset. Is this just a pleasant feeling, or is there something deeper at work ...

In Peru’s remote regions, Indigenous communities still experience energy poverty. About 30% of rural Amazonian neighborhoods do not have electricity, and in the Andes, access remains intermittent or ...

When the mayor of Alexandria, Virginia, Alyia Gaskins, discovered that the agency overseeing the city’s public housing owed $1 million in back rent, nearly 450 tenants suddenly faced eviction. “I was ...

Olivia Rodrigo's new music video was filmed by children in Gaza and Ukraine. It funds aid for kids affected by war See the “Book of Love” music video, which funds humanitarian aid for children in ...

Providence, Rhode Island’s The Arcade was 188 years old when it ended its run as America’s oldest shopping mall. Instead of letting the classical Greek structure (surprisingly beautiful for a mall) ...

Whether you attend a No Kings protest or show up in the streets of your community to speak out against inhumane actions by United States Immigration and Customs Enforcement, you’ll need a sign. For ...

Three years ago, a team of researchers from Flora & Fauna, a global conservation charity, set out to explore the Battambang Province of western Cambodia and get a head count on the animals that lived ...

Before “The Late Show with Stephen Colbert” airs its final episode on May 21, Colbert wants to do a little good. Earlier this month, he announced in a classic “Late Show Home Shopping” segment that ...

As it drives an almost unlimited marketplace of ultra-cheap, low-grade garments, Amazon has quietly become the biggest titan in the fast fashion industry. And with millions of third-party sellers and ...