The Footprint Project has built nearly 50 solar microgrids post-Helene — and aims to create a “lending library” to deploy in the wake of disasters.

On unique tours, blind and sighted guests climb mountains, salsa dance, sail and even skydive — all side by side, as equals.

From physical activity to access to medical care, how people get around is interconnected with their physical and mental health.

A Patient Is a Person is a series about how whole-person health is transforming the patient journey. It is supported by funding from UPIC Health. Afew years ago Christiana Sylvaine stopped driving.

A Patient Is a Person is a series about how whole-person health is transforming the patient journey. It is supported by funding from UPIC Health. On a Thursday evening in late October, a small ...

A Patient Is a Person is a series about how whole-person health is transforming the patient journey. It is supported by funding from UPIC Health. When Krystal Martin started surveying her neighbors in ...

Peter Yeung is a Contributing Editor at Reasons to be Cheerful. A Paris-based journalist, he also writes for publications including the Guardian, the LA Times and the BBC. He’s filed stories from ...

Within 48 hours of her high school burning down and her family’s evacuation from Pasadena, 14-year-old Avery Colvert began building an impromptu “shopping center.” In a large white warehouse, she ...

See what stories caught our attention this week, from fewer car crashes in Manhattan to a simpler alternative to “organic” food labels.

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 ...

When Judy Oliphant, an English nurse living in the southwestern county of Devon, stumbled upon a family of hedgehogs in her stable one day, she was surprised. The small, spiny animals were becoming a ...