Lucas Dufalla is a reporter with the Arkansas Democrat-Gazette covering the Mississippi River Basin. Before moving to Arkansas, he worked at news outlets in Maine and Pennsylvania. He is a Report for ...

See what stories caught our attention this week, including abundant agroforests and the progress being made to recognize wild animals as climate allies.

Milena Malanciuc clearly recalls the day she was sent to an orphanage, when she was just five. She had been playing in the park with her older cousin. On their return home, they found a large black ...

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 ...

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. Vending machines are ...

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 ...

The village of Volintiri is about as remote as you can get in Europe. Set in the rural southeast of Moldova, one of the poorest and least visited countries on the continent, it is only a couple of ...

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. A decade ago, 21 young ...

Living Paradigms is a series about what we can learn from the customs and cultural practices of others when it comes to solving problems. It is sponsored by Wonderstruck. It was a hot, sticky ...

Boyce Upholt is an award-winning writer whose work has appeared in The Atlantic, Smithsonian, National Geographic and other publications. He is the founding editor of Southlands, a new, biannual print ...

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 ...

Rhett Ayers Butler is the founder and CEO of Mongabay, which he started out of his love for nature and wildlife. Beyond Mongabay, Rhett has advised a range of organizations and institutions, from news ...