Between Montana and North Dakota lies the rugged terrain the native Lakota call “Mako shika” or “bad land,” a place of opportunity and hardship in equal measure. Now the oil […]

As Turin emerges from an era of automobile industry, the owners of two bicycle repair shops benefit from the city’s newfound interest in cycling – and recycling. One repairman rose […]

In 1976, William W. Warner’s Pulitzer-winning Beautiful Swimmers delighted readers everywhere with its tales of Callinectes sapidus, or the Atlantic blue crab, and the Chesapeake watermen whose livelihoods depend on […]

Inside the Chernobyl Exclusion Zone, a defiant community of women lives on some of the most toxic land on Earth. They share this beguiling yet lethal landscape with an assortment […]

The remote forests of Kalkalpen National Park in Austria, the largest area of wilderness in the European Alps, have been left untouched by humans for nearly a quarter of a […]

At three different corners of the Atlantic, fishing communities in Ireland, Norway, and Newfoundland ­share social, economic and environmental problems stemming from human interactions with the ocean’s ecosystems. But while […]

We’re living in the “Anthropocene,” the age of large-scale human impact that many scientists believe constitutes a whole new epoch in the geologic timescale. In Anthropocene, a chorus of these […]

In 1964, planner Robert Simon built a suburban utopia that combined the communal spaces of European cities with the natural expanses of the American countryside.  That place is Reston.  In […]

In Ukraine’s Carpathian Mountains, three generations of shepherds fight to sustain an ancient lifestyle in a rapidly changing world. Filmed over four years and encompassing the experiences of herdsmen aged […]

Photographer Rosamond Purcell finds life and beauty in the most unlikely of places: in junkyards and libraries and the backrooms of natural history collections. Transformed by her camera, using only […]