Positive developments in health are unfolding all around us, from the staying power of telemedicine to life-saving naloxone access.

Positive developments in health are unfolding all around us, from the staying power of telemedicine to life-saving naloxone access.

Reasons to be Cheerful is a nonprofit online magazine that is tonic for tumultuous times. We tell stories that reveal that there are, in fact, a surprising number of reasons to feel cheerful. Many of ...

Our diet impacts our health, as both health care and anti-hunger organizations have long understood. Now, they’re beginning to collaborate.

Eric Krebs is a writer from Queens, New York. He has written for the New York Times, Slate, and Bloomberg, among others.

When given the option, more and more farmers and their kids want to quit factory farming. The Transfarmation Project helps them do just that.

In Pelling, a town in Western Sikkim in India with the best views of the Himalayan peak Kanchenjunga, Tsering Bhutia gazes at the terraced field behind his house. “We’ve grown organic black cardamom ...

For those not ready to invest in an EV of their own, community-first car shares are an affordable way to plug in to sustainable transit.

On a sunny afternoon, potato farmers return from the fields in the shadow of Karisimbi, the tallest volcano in Musanze, a district in North Rwanda. Row upon row of terraces stretch across the ...

Elizabeth Hewitt is a freelance journalist based in the Netherlands. She's interested in how policy-making impacts lives, and likes to write about local solutions to big problems.

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