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 ...

An initiative connecting African donors living in Europe with small businesses in their home countries is a boon for entrepreneurs.

When Reasons to be Cheerful launched, a small group of generous individuals who believed in its mission helped to get it up and running. We called them the Founders Club. Today, the Founders Club ...

On a blue-skied summer morning, Place Pasteur in the historic center of Besançon is abuzz with colorful market stalls selling trinkets and antiques. But it’s also here that residents bring a different ...

Peter Yeung is a Contributing Editor at Reasons to be Cheerful. A Paris-based journalist, he also writes for publications including the Guardian, the LA Times and the BBC. He’s filed stories from ...

Taking phone calls from a 90-year-old woman you’ve never met is not typically in a co-founder’s job description. But for Marius Čiuželis, it’s all in a day’s work. In 2016, he and his wife Kristina ...

Welcome back to our weekly behind-the-scenes glimpse at what’s getting our team talking. Tell us what you’ve been reading at [email protected] and we just might feature it here. “The future is in our ...

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After a decade behind bars, it wasn’t the fields that stretched for kilometers around him that struck Nicolas when he first set foot on the farm. It was the smell. “I’ve been through six different ...

Juliette Fekkar is a Paris-based journalist covering climate, agriculture, energy and environmental issues. Her reporting has been featured in The Washington Post, Le Monde and France Info.

Lucas Dufalla is a reporter with the Arkansas Democrat-Gazette covering the Mississippi River Basin. Before moving to Arkansas, he worked at news outlets in Maine and Pennsylvania. He is a Report for ...

Matt Hudson grew up in Great Falls, Montana, and is a graduate of the University of Montana School of Journalism. He previously worked as a reporter for the Owatonna (Minn.) People's Press, the Daily ...