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In the historic coal mining town of Gateshead, a different kind of energy is now coming from the same earth.

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Thanks to “reverse vending machines” and environmentally conscious youth, an effort to reduce plastic waste in Aarhus has taken off. Once among the most polluted cities in the world, Beijing has made ...

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A guy goes into a bar, and leaves with one less kidney. That’s a joke Mark Scotch tells about his life. It’s only a slight exaggeration: A chance encounter in 2020 did lead to him donating a kidney — ...

David Gill might be the richest man in Sebastopol, California. The semi-retired health care administrator is banking the most valuable currency in the world: time. Gill currently has 480 hours in his ...

This story has been co-published by Reasons to be Cheerful and the Outrider Foundation. The Newberry Volcano in central Oregon is set among a ravishing landscape of ancient lava flows, lakes and pine ...

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Kei Icawana bustles about her farm. Behind vegetable beds and greenhouses, car traffic roars. A train glides along an elevated track in the direction of Hino, a city in the west of Tokyo. Boxes of ...