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Environment

Restoration, clean energy, and communities repairing the living world they depend on.

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Solar panels on red earth beside a community building in western Kenya, with residents gathered at a meter box in late-afternoon light.

In western Kenya, a village-owned solar grid just lit 12,000 homes — and a local payroll

The Ushindi Energy Cooperative in Kisumu County now powers clinics, shops, and night study halls from a community microgrid. Women hold a majority of the board seats, and the lights stay on after dusk.

Amara Okonkwo · 12 September 2026 · 3 min read

Divers tend rows of coral fragments on underwater nursery frames in clear tropical water, with sunlight falling through the reef.

Science

Gardeners of the sea are growing heat-tolerant coral — and a Palawan trial is working

Selectively bred coral fragments on a Philippine reef survived a marine heatwave at rates that stunned even the scientists who planted them. The work is slow, wet, and newly convincing.

Elena Voss · 9 September 2026

A newly planted desert shade park on a former parking lot in Phoenix, with families at a misting station under young palo verde trees.

Politics

Phoenix just voted unanimously to turn 200 heat-island lots into shade parks

A rare all-hands city council vote funds trees, misting stations, and night-time cooling centers on former parking lots. The first sites are already taking root in the neighborhoods that bake first.

Naomi Brooks · 6 September 2026

Environment

In western Kenya, a village-owned solar grid just lit 12,000 homes — and a local payroll

Gardeners of the sea are growing heat-tolerant coral — and a Palawan trial is working

Phoenix just voted unanimously to turn 200 heat-island lots into shade parks

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