Although Grand has graduated from LSU, he continues to help organise volunteers every week. A former Louisiana State University (LSU) student, started a community effort after noticing that large amounts of perfectly good food were being thrown away after meals on campus. His student-run organisation, Giving Greek, has now donated more than 10,000 meals to…

Representative Image of the abandoned hospital buildings in Eagle Mountain (AI-generated image) On the southeastern edge of Joshua Tree National Park sits Eagle Mountain, once a thriving company town of roughly 4,000 people, now one of California’s largest and best preserved ghost towns. Founded in 1948 by industrialist Henry J Kaiser to house workers for…

For years, dust storms were part of everyday life in Kalgoorlie-Boulder. When the wind picked up, the outback mining city could disappear under choking clouds of red and grey dust, forcing people indoors and bringing the town to a standstill.Today, that problem is a fraction of what it once was. Thanks to a long-running greening…