The simple skin-to-skin practice known as kangaroo mother care is proven to help babies survive and thrive. So why hasn’t it gone mainstream?

Fundamentally altering how food is grown is not easy. The state of Sikkim took the slow and pragmatic route — and it has paid off.

In the Land of a Thousand Hills, a 50-year-old agricultural technique to curb soil erosion is making a comeback.

As climate change causes rainfall and flooding to grow more erratic, an age-old method of farming near riverbanks becomes ever more vital.

In a region known for violent conflict, the practice of traditional crafts is helping to restore normalcy and rebuild lives.

The machines — and the rural entrepreneurs who run them — are helping more people in India access safe drinking water.

Villages in a drought-plagued part of North India have been transformed by local meetings and a revival of old farming practices.

Tall, slow-melting “ice stupas” offer a clever way to store water until it’s needed to irrigate summer crops.

Rohingyatographer is documenting refugee life in Bangladesh through refugees’ own eyes and lenses — and the world is taking notice.

Bengaluru is slowly re-earning its watery reputation, one lake restoration project at a time.

Teaching everything from emergency medicine to solar engineering, a radical new university is serving the needs of India’s rural poor, whether they can read or not.

A locally driven push to restore a Himalayan paradise preserved an economy, a community and an ecosystem all at once.

How an unusual ritual led to fewer child marriages, less flooding, a boom in girls’ education — and a cultural transformation.

Zapped with solar electrical currents, struggling reefs can self-repair with incredible speed — and even grow where none have existed before.