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

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 ...

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Anabel Peterman is Next City and CivicLex's joint Equitable Cities Reporting Fellow for Rural-Urban Issues. Born and raised in eastern Kentucky, she holds a degree in traditional music performance ...

Local clubs in India are providing education and helping communities turn the humble ‘game of kings’ into a route out of poverty.

A young student set out to protect an endangered local bird. Two decades later, Dr. Purnima Devi Barman has built a 20,000-strong army of women conservationists.

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Just off the bustling Rue Montorgueil, one of the most commercial streets in Paris, the Centre Cerise, or Cherry Sociocultural Center, is a haven of local community. At the cafe in the back, where the ...

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 ...

On a misty Thursday morning in the village of Pamohi in the northeast Indian state of Assam, children walk to school carrying two bags. One holds their books; the other contains 25 cleaned and sorted ...

This story was produced by The Hechinger Report, a nonprofit, nonpartisan news outlet focused on education. MACCLESFIELD, England — Ishan Goshawk, an apprentice with global pharmaceutical company ...