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Aimee Rawlins is a writer, editor and content strategist with over 15 years of journalism experience. She has held senior editorial roles at Fast Company and CNN, where she led coverage of ...

See what stories caught our attention this week, including a movement to ban octopus farms and a green infrastructure makeover for Brooklyn’s Prospect Park.

The first time Mike Martin held an AK-47 was after the 2012 shooting at Sandy Hook Elementary in Connecticut, which claimed the lives of 20 children and six adults. The shooting shocked a friend of a ...

This story is one in a series about the confluence of capitalism, conservation and cultural identity in the Mississippi River Basin. It is part of Waterline and is sponsored by the Walton Family ...

Blistering suns, endless dunes and almost no water. This is the imagined world on the planet Tatooine in Star Wars. Here, survival depends upon towering vaporators that loom over the sand, drawing in ...

When Mount Etna in Sicily rumbled this spring, news outlets around the world flashed dramatic photos of lava and ash. But Martin Wikelski was skeptical. The biologist, who directs the Department of ...

When special-education teacher Thomas Ackermann comes home from work, he heads straight for the basement of his house in Aachen, Germany. Behind the door of his self-described “man cave” lies a ...

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. When someone at the ...

Cars and motorcycle taxis struggle through the deep potholes of the dusty road. Visiting Sandra Tembei’s company, Mellow Group, makes you forget that her carpentry workshop is located in Douala, ...

Welcome back to our weekly behind-the-scenes glimpse at what’s getting our team talking. Tell us what you’ve been reading at [email protected] and we just might feature it here. When Samuel Salamone ...