Sand to Green is working to transform patches of desert into sustainable and profitable plantations.
22/11/2023
Reeddi rents out small, lightweight solar-powered batteries in Nigeria that can power devices including TVs, laptops and refrigerators.
26/09/2023
For 25 years, Susan Burton has dedicated herself to helping women rebuild their lives after prison. Today, she's established an alliance that helps others around the world follow her path.
31/08/2023
After losing loved ones to preventable diseases, Osei Boateng dedicated his life to delivering health care directly to people in need in his home country who often live hours away from the nearest hospital.
11/08/2023
The streets of Dhaka are filled with constant clamor. Among the chorus of honking horns and ringing bells, roaring cars and rattling rickshaws, you can hear the electric hum of the city's three-wheeled open taxis, called tuk-tuks, as they weave…
11/04/2023
What if there was a way to eat meat without farming and killing billions of animals per year, contributing to the climate crisis and risking high cholesterol levels?
08/03/2023
Nearly 200 countries have agreed to a legally-binding treaty to protect marine life in international waters, which cover more than half of the planet's surface, but have long been essentially lawless.
05/03/2023
It's not every day that effective fungus-killing compounds are discovered, so researchers in Germany knew their recent find needed a special name. Identifying and testing three natural compounds that proved lethal to fungi, they were so impressed…
03/03/2023
During the early days of the coronavirus pandemic in Nairobi, Kenya, something improbable happened: a mountain appeared. To curb the transmission of the virus, authorities called on the city's thousands of private bus operators to cease trading.…
10/02/2023
The Fender’s blue butterfly has fluttered away from the brink of extinction.
21/01/2023
There is a megaproject underway that's not so much breaking new ground, as burrowing beneath it. In Singapore, a series of extensive tunnels are being bored into the soil some 60 meters down -- below subterranean shopping malls and even the city's…
21/12/2022
The verdict is in: A four-day work week is good for business.
30/11/2022
