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March 17, 2017 - 04:43 AM
Meet the Retirees Turning Their Farms Into Wildlife Corridors

Meet the Retirees Turning Their Farms Into Wildlife Corridors

October 16, 2026

What if retirement offered an opportunity to give something back to the natural world? In Virginia's Shenandoah Valley, two retired neighbors, John Rice and John Sessler, are doing just that, transforming their farmland into thriving habitats for wildlife. Working alongside Smithsonian...

The Coral That Heals

The Coral That Heals

October 15, 2026

A bleached coral, stripped of its color and slowly starving, can come back to life in just seven weeks -- if it is placed in contact with a healthy twin. Researchers at Stanford University recently discovered that when genetically identical coral fragments touch, their tissues fuse into what...

The Basketballer Who Assembled a Stranger's Vacuum

The Basketballer Who Assembled a Stranger's Vacuum

October 14, 2026

When a 94-year-old woman in Melbourne discovered that the new vacuum cleaner she wanted was sold out, she faced a disappointing trip home. But a stranger standing nearby overheard her predicament and quietly offered to drive two hours to another store, collect the vacuum, and deliver it to her...

Into the Ocean at Dawn

Into the Ocean at Dawn

October 13, 2026

Two days after her daughter died, Keri Jones walked back to the beach. Not because she had somewhere to be, but because she needed, as she put it, to give herself to the water. That instinct -- to seek the ocean in the middle of grief -- led her back to the Wednesday Ocean Waders, a group that...

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...

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