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Companies across the region have vowed to find a use for the entirety of each fish they catch, from fertilizer to fish skin leather.

When it comes to eradicating unwanted vegetation, these curious creatures have proven to be an earth-friendly alternative to herbicides.

This story was originally published by Yale Environment 360. Until recently, Henning Voigt’s 500-hectare farmland along the Peene River, near Germany’s northeastern Baltic Sea coast, was well-drained ...

It doesn’t take long to observe that the community of Awra Amba is unlike any other place in Ethiopia — or even the rest of the world. Here in the breathtaking highlands of northern Ethiopia, not far ...

New and old ways to share wedding outfits and other supplies are slowly changing mindsets — while keeping the exuberance of the celebrations alive.

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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. On a damp and grimly ...

This story was originally published by Grist. Sign up for Grist’s weekly newsletter here. Vibrant shades of green merge with brilliant streaks of blue where the land meets the sea on Rao Island, which ...