Lydia Larsen is a science and environmental journalist based in South Carolina's Lowcountry. Her work has appeared in Inside Climate News, Sierra, Hakai and Nature, among others.

Kanika Gupta is an indepedent journalist and documentary filmmaker from New Delhi. She writes about climate, gender, migration and human rights across South Asia and the Middle East for leading global ...

Paula Span is a veteran journalist and has written the New Old Age column for the New York Times since 2009. She is currently working on a book about octogenarians and helps prepare the next ...

Jeremy Hance is a senior contributing editor for Mongabay as well as being an author and freelance writer for the Guardian and other outlets. He started his journalism career with Mongabay in 2009 and ...

For America’s 250th birthday, we asked readers to show us, with words and photos, how their communities keep coming together in ways that transcend politics.

The fast-growing Climate First Bank is financing clean energy projects one relationship at a time — and it hopes other community banks will follow suit. Once heavily channelized, the Gila River is ...

When musician David Byrne, the founder of Reasons to be Cheerful, performed at the sold-out Dolby Theatre in Los Angeles last fall, the entire crowd was on its feet for almost the entire show. I ...

The Virgin River cuts through a towering red rock gorge flanked by forested plateaus as it meanders through Washington County in southern Utah. The river is the primary source of water for the fastest ...

From an airplane window, Hainan, an oval-shaped island floating alone in the expanse of the South China Sea, resembles a sea sponge. In reality, the Chinese province genuinely is a kind of engineered ...

When Harry Kruiter first met Eric, the man could barely sit still. Tax bills were scattered across the kitchen table. His hands were shaking. Two years earlier, Eric’s wife had died unexpectedly, ...

Every morning, about 50 to 100 people gather in line in front of a center owned by the municipality of Aarhus, the second-largest city in Denmark. Here, they can give — and take — all sorts of ...

For many, the Canal Saint-Martin in the hip 11th district of Paris — with its aquamarine waters, quaint footbridges and rows of classic Parisian street-side terraces — is an ideal place to while away ...