People Doing Good

With homemade rafts and plastic-bottle life jackets, teams of young villagers save stranded locals when the Brahmaputra River bursts its banks.

Indigenous activists have fought time and time again for the sacred nature of both land and water: we’ve seen them fight against the implementation of The Dakota Access Pipeline, the Trans Mountain pipeline, and at the forefront of the anti-Line 3 movement.

Intersectional activist, creator, and model, Jeannie Jay Park, on her childhood, the model minority myth, activism, and her work with Sanitation Nation and Warriors in the Garden

Emma Watson — actor and UN Women’s Goodwill Ambassador, hid more than 40 books around Glasgow during COP26 for people to find.‍ The inspiring reads on climate issues are part of the #COPBookFairies campaign.

The country is seeing a growing trend in green spaces governed by local residents, bringing conservation, educational benefits, and income to urban and rural communities.

A new hand gesture is helping save lives — and there are more creative ways people are showing up to help those in distress.

To celebrate how far we’ve come and how folks are using social media to help each other, we’re highlighting five of the people who are using it for compassion and community...

Whether you want to volunteer as a poll worker, join a political campaign you believe in, or support voting rights — this is your guide on how to make a difference.

The Minnesota senator was treated for breast cancer this year. She has bipartisan legislation that would encourage people to catch up on health screenings, which plummeted during the pandemic.

Indigenous activists have always been at the frontlines of global issues to preserve the sacredness of Earth and stand for human rights. Here are seven activists to follow from North America, South America, and Australia.

TeamSeas — an initiative from popular YouTubers Mr. Beast and Mark Rober — successfully raised $30 million dollars to take 30 million pounds of trash out of the waters.

Jason Wang is the founder of FreeWorld — a nonprofit that helps people who were formerly incarcerated start a well-paying post-prison career in the trucking industry.