When people walk into the Clean Slate tattoo removal clinic at the University of California San Diego, they carry more than just ink on their skin. Many are justice-impacted adults — people with ...

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 ...

Atmospheric water generation' is inching from sci-fi to reality in communities that lack access to potable water.

The village of Volintiri is about as remote as you can get in Europe. Set in the rural southeast of Moldova, one of the poorest and least visited countries on the continent, it is only a couple of ...

This story is part of Fungi Week!, a deep dive into the myriad ways mushrooms and fungi make the planet a healthier place for all its inhabitants. It is supported by UPIC Health. Each planting season, ...

The red-brick Frampton Park Estate, a set of five-story social housing blocks in east London, is built like many other residential complexes in the British capital. Even the lines of solar panels that ...

Anybody can visit Etteln with the click of a mouse. As Ulrich Ahle’s pointer flies over the rooftops of his hometown — past half-timbered houses, the historic church and verdant fields — it’s clear ...

Kamloops, British Columbia, is a radiant place, receiving over 3,100 hours of sunshine a year. So it’s no wonder that in 2016, Thompson Rivers University (TRU) decided to harness all that luminescence ...

Behind David Milarch’s desk in a large warehouse in rural Michigan grows the future of climate change solutions. Thousands of infant sequoia and coastal redwood saplings, each the size of a thumb, ...

On a sunlit Thursday morning in downtown San Diego, the sidewalk in front of Father Joe’s Villages buzzes with an excited energy. Nearly two-dozen people, dressed in everything from street clothes to ...