For seven years, Leticia and Maynor Aldana and their two children lived in a rundown, $1,200 per month apartment in Northfield, Minn. Raw sewage from the apartment above dripped into their kitchen.

In other words, it was perfect. Habitat bought the 1,200- square-foot house last spring and gave Team Starfish a $50,000 budget to restore it. “We came in under,” Thacker said proudly. Volunteers ...

For seven years, Leticia and Maynor Aldana and their two children lived in a rundown apartment in Northfield, Minn. Raw sewage from the apartment above dripped into their kitchen. The basement had ...

For seven years, Leticia and Maynor Aldana and their two children lived in a rundown apartment in Northfield, Minnesota. Raw sewage from the apartment above dripped into their kitchen. The basement ...

Research into one of the most persistent coral predators on the Great Barrier Reef has revealed a troubling paradox in reef ecosystems: the crown-of-thorns starfish (COTS) appears to thrive in the ...

On a quiet residential street in Northfield sits a neat cottage, accented with a cheery red door and bounded by a quintessential white picket fence. But it’s what the house represents that is ...

Life cycle of coral with crown-of-thorns starfish. Beginning with healthy coral, heatwave events induce coral bleaching, causing coral death and algal colonisation. Corals then collapse and create ...