Once synonymous with mining, this northern French town has become a model for how to sustainably transition away from fossil ...

It’s a clear winter morning in the village of Armeniș, deep in the southern Carpathian Mountains of southwestern Romania. Fluffy clouds sit atop the mountain peaks as a chill breeze carries a hint of ...

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Even at a young age, Jonathan Schreiber found that harnessing the power of wind was something of a breeze. Encouraged by his DIY-loving grandfather, the Austrian teenager was always playing around ...

Teen Line’s peer support can be a lifeline for callers. The volunteers behind it say it’s transformative for them too.

Wild European bison are roaming the Carpathian Mountains for the first time in 100 years — and bringing the land back to life.

Peter Yeung is a Contributing Editor at Reasons to be Cheerful. A Paris-based journalist, he also writes for publications including the Guardian, the LA Times and the BBC. He’s filed stories from ...

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 open-air central bus station in Dunkirk feels like a Formula 1 pit lane. In the space of a few minutes, a dozen pink, green and blue buses speed in and out, with passengers descending and mounting ...

On a sunny afternoon, potato farmers return from the fields in the shadow of Karisimbi, the tallest volcano in Musanze, a district in North Rwanda. Row upon row of terraces stretch across the ...

A U.S. city of 60,000 people would typically see around six to eight traffic fatalities every year. But Hoboken, New Jersey? They haven’t had a single fatal crash for nine years — since January 17, ...

The red-brick Frampton Park Estate, a set of five-story social housing blocks in east London, is built like many other residential complexes in the British capital. Even the lines of solar panels that ...