This article was originally published by Stateline. In September 2023, Ashley, a 29-year-old mother of two who grew up in the Boyle Heights neighborhood of Los Angeles, was facing child abuse and ...

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

A series about how the cultural practices of different societies, both past and present, can teach us how to prevent or solve problems. A series about how the cultural practices of different societies ...

Dr. Sean McCormack, chair of the Ealing Wildlife Group, says that although scientific studies are still underway, the beavers have already had an “anecdotal” impact. “A few weeks after they came, ...

The Zero Waste Center in Kamikatsu, Japan, looks like a peculiar kind of flea market: everything from metal ring pulls to plastic bottle lids, mirrors and thermometers are neatly stored in a row of ...

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. If the Los Angeles River ...

Since opening in December 2018, Oodi has begun to write a new chapter in the history of public space. Instead of being merely a repository for books, it is an alternative working and learning space, a ...

After a citizen-led campaign to draw fairer voting maps, this year Michigan voters will choose their politicians -- instead of the other way around.

Last year, Geetha Jayaram flew back to the South Indian region of Karnataka near Bangalore, where she grew up. She visited her very first patient there, Eashwaramma. Twenty-five years ago, when the ...

The otter reintroduction was much more successful in Southeast Alaska, where there are at least 23,000 sea otters — up from 450 otters that were introduced in the 1960s — and in British Columbia with ...

Yet salmon numbers continued to decline. By 1948, the final year of the commercial fishing industry for wild Atlantic salmon, only 40 were reported caught in the Penobscot watershed. In the late 1980s ...

The solution to stopping climate change might be buried on 10 acres in the Pauma Valley of California. In the early morning before the sun will rise above the hills and torch the valley, Bea Alvarez ...