Hundreds of women in rural Zimbabwe who rely on electric tricycles for work and getting around are now at risk as police crack down on the vehicles more and more. These e-tricycles were brought in by a startup called Mobility for Africa with the goal of giving rural women a ...
As the UK heads into summer, many people are wondering how they'll cope if another major heatwave hits. In 2022, the country recorded its hottest temperature ever, reaching 40.3°C (104.5°F) in eastern England. Despite increasingly hot summers, air conditioning is still rare in Britain, with fewer than 5 percent of ...
Bread used to be about as straightforward as food gets -- flour, water, salt, and sometimes a bit of yeast. Over the past century, though, it turned into something churned out by massive factories using all kinds of processing methods. Now that more people are paying attention to nutrition, gut ...
Hospitals can be really scary places for kids. The bright lights, the unfamiliar equipment, the procedures, and the general sense that something is wrong are a lot to handle. And not just for the children going through it, but for their families too. That's a big part of why children's ...
Food waste is one of those problems that most people are vaguely aware of but don't fully appreciate the scale of—just how much perfectly good food never reaches anyone's plate. In Spain, an organization called Espigoladors has been quietly proving since 2014 that food written off as surplus or too ...
Imagine finding a brand-name kitchen gadget, a new pair of headphones, or a toy that normally sells for $30 and paying just a few dollars for it. That's the promise that draws thousands of shoppers into Binz stores every week. What looks like a room full of giant bins and ...
