Students at Sedro-Woolley High School in Washington State are ditching the traditional woodshop projects for something a little more hands-on: Building tiny houses for their homeless neighbors.

When Anotiona Kolb was growing up in New Canaan, Connecticut, she knew that ticks were no joke. In 2024, the Connecticut Agricultural Experiment Station reported that 4,000 ticks had been submitted ...

A nonprofit in Mississippi is using board games and role-playing games to raise awareness about what it’s actually like to experience homelessness. Brandi Herrington — the executive director of ...

While most would prefer to be tucked into bed, sleeping in, at the crack of dawn on weekend mornings, the Montana Bar Fairies are out on the town doing their most important work. The group of ...

In January, football star Travis Kelce purchased a $3.3 million mansion in Kansas City to transform it into transitional housing for homeless youth. And in early March, the Kansas City Chiefs tight ...

A new study from Case Western Reserve University, a nonprofit research university in Ohio, is shedding light on a leading cause of homelessness in America. Meagan Ray-Novak — a research assistant at ...

Throwing and catching gold, green, and purple beads is a cherished Mardi Gras tradition, but as it turns out, these petroleum-based plastic beads have a heavy impact on the New Orleans environment ...

In recent decades, wind energy has surged across the globe. But most wind turbines have a life span of about 20 years, meaning the massive infrastructure boom of wind energy is now generating some ...

Every Thursday morning in downtown San Diego, Deacon John Roberts leads a cycling club through Father Joe’s Villages, a homeless shelter and nonprofit. The program has been operational for the last 10 ...

In 2022, former Arizona Governor Doug Ducey spent an estimated $82 million to construct a makeshift wall along the United States-Mexico border with shipping containers. Using over 1,000 containers in ...

Since 2000, wind energy has increased drastically across the globe. In the United States alone, wind electricity generation has risen from 6 billion kilowatt-hours in 2000 to about 430 billion in 2023 ...

Along with harmful drugs like fentanyl, xylazine — also known as “tranq” — has been linked to a recent rise in overdoses across the United States. The powerful animal tranquilizer has become a ...