For America’s 250th birthday, we asked readers to show us, with words and photos, how their communities keep coming together in ways that transcend politics.

Lydia Larsen is a science and environmental journalist based in South Carolina's Lowcountry. Her work has appeared in Inside Climate News, Sierra, Hakai and Nature, among others.

Paula Span is a veteran journalist and has written the New Old Age column for the New York Times since 2009. She is currently working on a book about octogenarians and helps prepare the next ...

Kanika Gupta is an indepedent journalist and documentary filmmaker from New Delhi. She writes about climate, gender, migration and human rights across South Asia and the Middle East for leading global ...

For America’s 250th birthday, we asked readers to show us, with words and photos, how their communities keep coming together in ways that transcend politics.

In the July edition of our newsletter about creating positive change, we look at avian emergency responder networks and frog-ferrying volunteers. In the June edition of our newsletter about creating ...

Waterline is an ongoing series that explores the solutions making rivers, waterways and ocean food chains healthier. It is funded by a grant from the Walton Family Foundation. Last July, a crew ...

One Thanksgiving, while most families gathered around dinner tables, Janina Estrada cruised the neighborhoods of Orange, California, searching for her 42-year-old son Jimmy Barela in the rain. For ...

Four generations strong, the Mahlase family has welcomed many babies into the world. And while each new arrival has been an occasion for joy, one major factor has differentiated them: some of the ...

Waterline is an ongoing series that explores the solutions making rivers, waterways and ocean food chains healthier. It is funded by a grant from the Walton Family Foundation. If the Los Angeles River ...

This story is one in a series about the confluence of capitalism, conservation and cultural identity in the Mississippi River Basin. It is part of Waterline and is sponsored by the Walton Family ...

Jimmy G. was a distracted and disruptive fifth grader. “In the morning, when he came in, he’d be up in everybody’s business, up and out of his chair, constantly blurting stuff out,” says Amy Young, ...