In Jaipur, India, an all-women company offers sustainable and authentic tours — while providing its drivers with income and agency.

Michaela Haas Michaela Haas, Ph.D., is a Contributing Editor at Reasons to be Cheerful. An award-winning author and solutions reporter, her recent books include Bouncing Forward: The Art and Science ...

In Jaipur, India, an all-women company offers sustainable and authentic tours — while providing its drivers with income and agency.

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. About a week before the ...

Redesigned turbines are solving the problem that has long plagued hydroelectric dams, churning out green energy while leaving fish unharmed.

Melanie Winter’s efforts to free one of America's most concretized waterways offer a glimpse of a healthier, more meandering river.

As urbanization fragments the animals’ habitat, homeowners across the UK are creating a network of garden pathways just for them.

Sepp Eisenriegler loves giving second chances: To the defunct electrical appliances awaiting repair or refurbishment, the hundreds of unemployed people he’s trained as skilled repairers over the ...

The waiting room in the basement of Boston Medical Center looks like any other, with lines of chairs and a TV. But when patients here are called in, they don’t enter an exam room. Instead, they’re ...

When it comes to organic farming, Australia leads the world’s tally with 53 million hectares under cultivation, and at 4.7 million hectares, India stands a far second (the United States, at 2.06 ...

The design of Stuttgart’s ventilation channels has been guided by a map of its urban climate that was first drawn up by the climatology office in 1998. More maps have followed in the time since, ...

With “green corridors” that mimic the natural forest, Medellín is driving down temperatures — and could become five degrees cooler over the next few decades.