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How New York City Students Saved School Lunch

How New York City Students Saved School Lunch

October 12, 2026

Leslie Gomez Rivera didn’t like anything about the cafeteria at her Brooklyn high school, and had little hope it would change. Then she heard about Youth Food Advocates that supports students to advocate for change. They provided Leslie with the information and tools to do something about it....

How a Group of Cherokee Youth Made History Fighting for a Sacred River

How a Group of Cherokee Youth Made History Fighting for a Sacred River

October 11, 2026

A group of Cherokee girls, ages 10 to 17, set out to protect a salamander and ended up making legal history. Guided by elders who told them to start with the water itself, the NAIWA Daughters spent a year and a half hosting community dinners, meeting council members one by one, and showing up, as...

One Teen on How Emotions Give Memories Their Staying Power

One Teen on How Emotions Give Memories Their Staying Power

October 10, 2026

A teenager's argument with his mother about sleep and forgetfulness led Amit Biligiri, a 16-year-old from California, to ask a question that turned into an award-winning podcast: why does the brain discard a math lecture from yesterday but hold onto a paper crown from a decade ago? His answer,...

How I Tapped Back Into the Power to Feel Good at Sports

How I Tapped Back Into the Power to Feel Good at Sports

October 09, 2026

Julie Dickson grew up loving movement -- bikes, swimming, the easy joy of a body in motion -- until high school sorted everyone into "sporty" or not, and she quietly accepted she belonged to the wrong category. What she found in para powerlifting decades later wasn't just athletic ability she...

Berlin Mapped 900,000 Street Trees. Now 12,000 People Water Them.

Berlin Mapped 900,000 Street Trees. Now 12,000 People Water Them.

October 08, 2026

Amanda Gläser-Bligh has named her street tree Linda -- a linden, eight years old, growing outside her apartment in Berlin -- and once a week through the hot months, she carries 20 liters of water down to Linda's roots. That particular devotion is not unusual anymore: Berlin's open-source...

Peaceful Flower Garden becomes a Free 'You Pick' Haven

Peaceful Flower Garden becomes a Free 'You Pick' Haven

October 07, 2026

After wildfires and flooding tore through her northern Arizona community, Cindy Wilson faced a choice about the flowers she had planned to sell: hold on to what she'd built, or open her gate. She opened it, inviting displaced neighbors to her backyard garden on Butterfly Lane, "hoping that I...

The women putting community at the heart of elephant conservation

The women putting community at the heart of elephant conservation

October 06, 2026

When Dorothy Lowakutuk drove through the night across rain-soaked Kenyan plains to reach a bruised, newborn elephant, she was doing something that no Samburu woman had done before - and quietly reshaping what conservation, leadership, and belonging could look like for her community. At...

Students and Elders Bridge the Gap

Students and Elders Bridge the Gap

October 05, 2026

A graduate student researches her elderly friend's favorite sports team before each visit. A pianist plays "Yesterday" for a memory care ward. A woman tends friendships she describes as being done "in honor of her grandmother's legacy." What began as one Michigan student's intuition...

Tanzania's First Official Wildlife Corridor is Good News for Elephants

Tanzania's First Official Wildlife Corridor is Good News for Elephants

October 03, 2026

In Tanzania's Kilombero Valley, 368 farmers voluntarily gave up portions of their land so that elephants could walk safely between mountain rainforests and open savanna -- a negotiation seven years in the making that resulted in the country's first officially protected wildlife corridor....

Their Wedding Guests Couldn’t Make It, So Hundreds of Strangers Came Instead

Their Wedding Guests Couldn’t Make It, So Hundreds of Strangers Came Instead

October 02, 2026

Jayden and Kimberly arrived early on Hatteras Island in North Carolina for a small wedding with about 45 family members and friends expected to attend. But before the wedding day, a storm cut off highway access to the island with only a handful of guests on hand. Through social media, a friend of...

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