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Trials test our strength, test our resolve. But we are remarkably resilient. These are the stories of those facing enormous challenges and finding ways forward with grace and growth.

Finding resilience: Para rowers upend notions of ability

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In northern Gaza, famine sets in: ‘We will eat anything’

Snapshots from Gaza: By sheer will, Palestinian women eke out a life

In besieged and starving Gaza, Ramadan charity and prayers endure

Overcoming adversity: How the pandemic revealed resilience
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When Veronica Quiroga and her fellow students at Fordham University set out to interview Bronx residents about surviving the pandemic, they expected tales of woe. Instead, they found people kept using one particular quality to describe their experiences: resilience. Despite one of the city’s darkest eras in recent memory, the light of community, family, and perseverance shone through in the voices of the Bronx COVID-19 Oral History Project.
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Behind the potter’s wheel, veterans work on healing

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Resilience against Russian lies

In Senegal, domestic violence survivors craft hope in silver

Ukrainians along front: Digging deeper, and waiting, waiting ...

Amid Western aid cuts, Ukraine families wonder how they’ll get by

Preserving culture, one textile at a time

Ukraine: After two years of war, the abnormal is the new normal

Lyrical, harrowing ‘Io Capitano’ offers epic immigration tale

Outgunned, Ukrainians watch Congress while facing Russians

Tents in winter: Dislocated by war, Gazans struggle to find shelter

Let there be light: Re-sparking my love of learning

At Sahara’s edge, old habits protect crops from new climate

Comeback college: How Morris Brown kept its doors open

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Ukraine’s other resistance – against despair

African eye doctor looks on the bright side

‘Time for us to leave’: Gaza reporter, again, joins thousands fleeing

Lives on hold, economy in check: Gaza war tests Israel’s stamina

Community restores Compton bakery after street ‘takeover’

In wartime Gaza, a complicating burden: Communication blackouts

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Songs of beauty amid war

At Oct. 7’s ground zero, what an Israeli survivor lost ... and learned

‘This is a war that starves you’: For Gaza, hunger is a new enemy

Points of Progress

How Indigenous people’s work can save aquatic grass and terrestrial forest

War stranded Gaza workers in Israel. How it dashed their dreams.

Family, homes, burials: In Gaza, a race to utilize lull in fighting

America’s last lighthouse keeper is retiring. She, and her light, are ready.

Reporter’s notebook: In Gaza, days of ingenuity, nights of doubt

The call of home: Why some Ukrainian refugees are risking a return now

‘When will this end?’ In Gaza, tough questions from kids.

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On tides of climate change, adaptability buoys hope

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For global youth, it’s green by choice

Archive detective: Frazine Taylor fills in Black family trees

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Lessons from a bounce-back nation

As perilous ground war looms in Gaza, Israelis brace for sacrifice

Bush House: How the US ambassador’s home in China got its name

In Israel, army of ‘can do’ volunteers fills void left by government

How world averted a grain shortage, despite Ukraine war

As GOP faction challenges Ukraine policy, does Biden have an answer?

For these Ukrainian volunteers, mission is to bring elders out of harm’s way

Now tanks, next missiles? Expanding military aid buoys Ukraine.

Tunisian beekeepers battle extreme heat to keep the buzz alive

How Lebanese people survive the ‘normalization of misery’

‘Is there any bread left?’ The answer in Tunisia is often no.

At oldest Palestinian camp in Lebanon, violence adds to struggles

For community built atop former landfill, a long wait for justice

In Pictures: Making a living on the world’s largest desert lake

Hometown help: What one author discovered about racial equity in schools

Hurricane Idalia tests resilience of Florida’s Nature Coast

In Pictures: How Filipino salt makers saved their craft

The Explainer

Too big to fail? The consequences of Egypt’s economic troubles.

Stronger: A Podcast

What women lost to the pandemic – and how they're winning it back

Over six episodes, we bring you stories from women in Las Vegas, one of the hardest hit economies in the country. Their experiences capture the challenges women have faced as well as their courage, strength, and resilience.
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Past stories

A country that reversed a narrative of poverty

How a year like no other summoned unsuspected strengths across cultures

For these ‘war children’ in London, grit and resilience come naturally

‘We’re not dead yet’: Big Basin redwoods scorched, but not lost.

Beyond fortitude: COVID-19 nurses tap a hidden strength – “sisu”

Fighting ‘invisible fire’: Why Paradise is ready for coronavirus.

After a mass shooting, what does healing look like?

Can resilience planning be disentangled from climate politics?

Try, try again? Psychologists question the value of 'grit'

Famine Resilience

Battered by drought and civil wars, more than 20 million people from Yemen to Tanzania are at risk of starvation in what aid workers call the largest humanitarian crisis since World War II. But over the past two decades, nations that once produced searing images of famine's toll have moved to thwart it by strengthening community resilience.