Pakistan Now Powers a Fifth of the Country From Household Rooftops
Somewhere in the last few years, a very large number of Pakistani families reached the same conclusion at more or less the same time: the electricity grid…
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Regenerative Farming Is Helping Uganda’s Coffee Farmers to Beat Drought
For a coffee farmer, the rain has always been the boss. It arrives when it arrives, and the crop lives or dies on its schedule. Across Uganda’s Masaka…
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California Built Solar Panels Over Its Canals and Stopped Losing the Water
California moves a staggering amount of water through open-air canals, roughly 4,000 miles of them, ferrying it to farms and taps across the state. And all…
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Montana’s Barfairies Leave Coffee Cards for People Who Didn’t Drive Home Drunk
You did the responsible thing. You had a few, you looked at your keys, you left the truck in the bar lot and got a ride home. The reward for good behavior is…
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He Spent His House Deposit to Take His Grandad to the World Cup
Jacob Allmendinger is 21, and for five years he did the sensible thing. He put money aside for a house, the way you are supposed to, until he had £10,000…
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The Man Who Carries Shelter Dogs Through New York on His Back
The dog on Bryan Reisberg’s back does not know it is auditioning. It knows it is on a subway for the first time, that the man carrying it keeps stopping so…
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A World-First Burn Treatment Spared a Teenager the One Outcome She Feared
When Kaitlin Jeffrey arrived at the burn unit at Hamilton Health Sciences in Ontario, the surgeon who took over her care was carrying something unusual: an…
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She Rowed to Hawaii Alone, and Beat the Men’s Record Getting There
The math on this is hard to hold in your head, so take it slowly. Kelsey Pflendler got into a 21-foot rowboat on the coast of California, pointed it at…
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The Cheapest Flood Engineers in London Have Tails
Five beavers reintroduced to west London built dams that fixed a costly flooding problem near Greenford station for free — and brought wildlife back with them.
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Ten Years and One Carcass at a Time: How Cambodia Coaxed a Lost Vulture Home
A white-rumped vulture has returned to Cambodia’s Lomphat sanctuary after ten years — a hopeful sign that anti-poisoning work and a monthly ‘vulture restaurant’ are paying off.
