In 2005, after Hurricanes Ivan and Katrina devastated the state, then-Alabama Department of Insurance commissioner Jim Ridling was surveying storm damage when a thought dawned on him. Realizing that ...

Mark Rober, a NASA engineer turned YouTube sensation with over 75 million subscribers, has spent his internet career making creative, silly, engaging science experiments for viewers, many of them ...

On April 13, officials in Bangladesh rescued an endangered Bengal slow loris, locally known as the Lajjabati Banor, which roughly translates to “shy monkey.” The adult male slow loris had wandered ...

On Monday, April 13, Malala Yousafzai gave her first-ever TED Talk. Many already know her as the Pakistani activist who, at just 15 years old, was shot in the face by the Taliban for her outspoken ...

In Glen Burnie, Maryland, Springer Blankenship spends most of his off days traipsing through overgrown lawns. The Navy veteran volunteers with I Want To Mow Your Lawn, a nonprofit that provides free ...

In Peru’s remote regions, Indigenous communities still experience energy poverty. About 30% of rural Amazonian neighborhoods do not have electricity, and in the Andes, access remains intermittent or ...

When the mayor of Alexandria, Virginia, Alyia Gaskins, discovered that the agency overseeing the city’s public housing owed $1 million in back rent, nearly 450 tenants suddenly faced eviction. “I was ...

Scientists can’t be everywhere all at once, as much as they’d like to. Many of the problems citizen science helps solve are concerned with spreading the net wider — or getting more helping hands on ...

Whether you’re reveling in the wonders of nature or seeking a burst of springtime positivity, these quotes are for you. The best quotes from famous activists about making a difference in the world.

Recently, the Universities of Bristol and Manchester enlisted the help of a golden retriever, Bumper, and a black Labrador, Peanut, for an important task: detecting Parkinson’s disease by smell. The ...

Three years ago, a team of researchers from Flora & Fauna, a global conservation charity, set out to explore the Battambang Province of western Cambodia and get a head count on the animals that lived ...

According to the most recent estimates from the National Alliance to End Homelessness, only 35 affordable rental homes are available in the United States for every 100 “extremely low-income” renters.