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In 2015, Ms. McAllister opened Laughing Bear Bakery in St. Louis, a nonprofit business where a criminal record is required to land the job.

Health Start is an Arizona statewide program that connects expecting mothers and their babies with a trained public health coach who finds them resources, provides information about their child's development, and serves as a sounding board for their questions.

Finland’s oldest city has slashed emissions by more than half and is now looking to heat from sewage to get to net zero.

The Akashinga unit, Zimbabwe's first armed, all-women anti-poaching unit, says it aims to change the face of conservation

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Threatened by development, five bodies of water are suing the State of Florida, making the unprecedented argument that nature has legal rights, too.

Biodegradable banana “paper” can protect potato seeds from potato cyst nematodes, sharply increasing potato size and yields, research finds.

Suicide is now the second leading cause of death on college campuses. Peer support, trainings and suicide prevention programs aim to reverse this deadly trend.

A doula collective is training emergency responders from across the state in best practices, filling a crucial gap in disaster response.

Famous for his adorable Instagram posts and music video cameos, Doug The Pug has added a new layer to his platform: raising funds for children battling cancer.

Indigenous groups across Canada have used GPR — along with other site survey technologies such as magnetometry and drones — to identify more than 1,800 possible graves at former residential schools, confirming an open secret.

The city of Vienna started the Reparaturbon as a pilot in 2020 as a way to promote repair and support local businesses. Through the scheme, which has since concluded, 50 percent of repair costs were subsidized by the city, capped at €100.