1. To fight climate change, protect the soil — and its microbes.
By Esther Ngumbi in Scientific American
By Henry Wilde in Huffington Post
3. Where a résumé falls short, can ‘microcredentials’ fill the gap?
By Don Baylor at the Urban Institute
By Matt Phillips in Quartz
5. Find out how solar power brought Muslims and Jews together in one West Bank village.
By Lonnie Shekhtman in the Christian Science Monitor

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