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Welcome back to our weekly behind-the-scenes glimpse at what’s getting our team talking. Let us know what you think at [email protected]. When we think of climate solutions, we often think of ...

When 18-year-old Ishi Mosha — who goes by the nickname Amzhii — glides down the face of a wave, she feels alive. Amzhii just finished school, but she’s already one of the few local female surf ...

Anya Petrone Slepyan is a multimedia correspondent at The Daily Yonder.

This story was originally published in the Daily Yonder. For more rural reporting and small-town stories visit dailyyonder.com. At the entrance to the New Kituwah Academy in Cherokee, North Carolina, ...

When an early learning center in Houston rewilded its grounds to withstand heat and floods, it gained a whole new sprawling outdoor classroom.

Welcome back to our weekly behind-the-scenes glimpse at what’s getting our team talking. Let us know what you think at [email protected]. After Hurricane Katrina, some communities in New Orleans felt ...

Christelle Kwizera was still a teenager and hadn’t even graduated from her engineering studies when she decided to tackle an urgent problem in her home country: safe water sources for local villages ...

Humiliating. Not a woman’s job. Shame on the family. Such comments were frequently directed at Tahani Al Shati and Yusra Mohammad Nmour when they started training as plumbers. In Jordan, the ...