Should we abolish all borders? Do we need a green dictatorship? At a debate-filled event in Paris, opinions designed to stoke discord took center stage.

“Borders have led to mass deaths, sexual violence and human trafficking — we must abolish them,” said Catherine Wihtol De Wenden, casting a stern glance out at the packed audience, assembled on chairs ...

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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 ...

On a stretch of prime agricultural land in California’s Sacramento Valley, native grasses, milkweed and wildflowers grow in tight rows under the state’s wide blue sky. Orange poppies, purple lupines ...

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 ...

What if a ticket to the opera could also be a prescription against loneliness? In Hamburg, the nonprofit KulturistenHochZwei — a play on the words culture (kultur) and tourists (touristen) — is ...

Straddling the border between India and Bangladesh, where the rivers Ganges, Meghna and Brahmaputra converge and flow into the Bay of Bengal, an ancient forest of mangroves stretches over 3,860 square ...

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 ...