The Best of TakePart

This year our coverage mined the world’s most pressing issues for the world’s most compelling stories, chasing the global impact of climate change, tracking the health and sustainability of our food, and monitoring the fight for human rights globally—as well as in our own American cities. Please enjoy a selection of some of TakePart’s finest work from 2015.

Featured Packages

Follow Your Food

Project Katrina

Climate Change(d)

Environment

The Unseen Slaughter Under the Sea

The Unseen Slaughter Under the Sea

Food Independence Could Be a Matter of Survival for the U.S.’ Most Isolated State

Food Independence Could Be a Matter of Survival for the U.S.’ Most Isolated State

The Untold Story of How Scientists and Citizens Are Saving This Unique Desert Critter From Extinction

How Scientists and Citizens Are Saving a Unique Desert Critter

Sea-Level Rise Poses Hard Choice for Two Neighborhoods: Rebuild or Retreat?

Sea-Level Rise Poses Hard Choice for Two Neighborhoods: Rebuild or Retreat?

The New Ocean Activists Are Totally Stoked

The New Ocean Activists Are Totally Stoked

Food

What Can Restaurants Do in the Fight Against Climate Change?

What Can Restaurants Do in the Fight Against Climate Change?

How a Carnivore Carnival Is Saving Pigs

How a Carnivore Carnival Is Saving Pigs

We Can’t Eat Our Way out of the Invasive Species Crisis

We Can’t Eat Our Way out of the Invasive Species Crisis

Why One of the World’s Top Chefs Is Putting Food Scraps on the Menu

Why One of the World’s Top Chefs Is Putting Food Scraps on the Menu

Farming Without Water

There's More to the Drought Than How Much Water It Takes to Grow an Almond

Culture and Education

Why Sex-Trafficked Children Can't Be Called Prostitutes

Why Sex-Trafficked Children Can’t Be Called Prostitutes

Dancing Man Found: How an ‘Average Joe’ Transformed Into a Leader for Body Positivity

Dancing Man Found: How an ‘Average Joe’ Transformed Into a Leader for Body Positivity

This Tiny Clinic Is Fighting for Trans Patients Illegally Denied Medical Care

This Tiny Clinic Is Fighting for Trans Patients Illegally Denied Medical Care

A Hand-Built Box on the Corner Could Help Bring an End to Book Deserts

A Hand-Built Box on the Corner Could Help Bring an End to Book Deserts

College Students to Veteran Educators: Quit Telling Us to Avoid Teaching

College Students to Veteran Educators: Quit Telling Us to Avoid Teaching

Features

I Was a Child Soldier

I Was a Child Soldier

One Survivor's Crusade Reveals a Plague of Errors in Nation's Sex Offender Registries

One Survivor's Crusade Reveals a Plague of Errors in Nation's Sex Offender Registries

What If the Key to Ending Homelessness Is Just That—a Key?

What If the Key to Ending Homelessness Is Just That—a Key?

Can Technology Save Africa’s Forests?

Can Technology Save Africa’s Forests?

Green China: Why Beijing Fears a Nascent Environmental Protest Movement

Green China: Why Beijing Fears an Environmental Protest Movement

World

Syrian Refugees Are Finding Solace—and Good Business—in Cairo

Syrian Refugees Are Finding Solace—and Good Business—in Cairo

The Single Mom Who Shut Down a Toxic Plant Readies for Round Two: Making Them Pay

The Single Mom Who Shut Down a Toxic Plant Readies for Round Two: Making Them Pay

Migrants Gone Missing: Healing and Closure for Families, Thanks to Forensic Science

Migrants Gone Missing: Healing and Closure for Families, Thanks to Forensic Science

Three Wounded Syrian War Veterans Flee to Europe

Three Wounded Syrian War Veterans Flee to Europe

The Fascinating Story Behind Why So Many Nail Technicians Are Vietnamese

The Fascinating Story Behind Why So Many Nail Technicians Are Vietn...