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In Behror, a hot, dusty town in Rajasthan, people queue outside a free mobile medical van. Most have come with minor complaints, but every now and then, there’s a patient who complains of a persistent ...

When Harry Kruiter first met Eric, the man could barely sit still. Tax bills were scattered across the kitchen table. His hands were shaking. Two years earlier, Eric’s wife had died unexpectedly, ...

This story was originally published by Canary Media, an independent, nonprofit newsroom covering the transition to clean energy and solutions to the climate crisis. Last October, Reasons to be ...

From the top of Zürichberg hill, the panorama reveals a city wrapped by lake and forest but insulated in a basin where heat collects. On hot summer days, the center of Zürich, Switzerland’s largest ...

This article was originally published in the February edition of Rotary magazine. It’s 9 o’clock on a Sunday morning and the temperature is soaring toward the 90s as hundreds of children make their ...

The public spaces in Nantes, a city along the Loire River in the west of France, might at first glance seem just like those in any other part of Europe. Across the city, there are numerous bike lanes, ...

This story is one in a series about the confluence of capitalism, conservation and cultural identity in the Mississippi River Basin. It is part of Waterline and is sponsored by the Walton Family ...

Waterline is an ongoing series that explores the solutions making rivers, waterways and ocean food chains healthier. It is funded by a grant from the Walton Family Foundation. When someone at the ...

Blistering suns, endless dunes and almost no water. This is the imagined world on the planet Tatooine in Star Wars. Here, survival depends upon towering vaporators that loom over the sand, drawing in ...

After a decade behind bars, it wasn’t the fields that stretched for kilometers around him that struck Nicolas when he first set foot on the farm. It was the smell. “I’ve been through six different ...

This story is one in a series about the confluence of capitalism, conservation and cultural identity in the Mississippi River Basin. It is part of Waterline and is sponsored by the Walton Family ...