A most peculiar crime spree is spreading across the UK. A rash of egg thieves raiding the nests of rare birds has precipitated a police initiative named “Operation Easter,” which […]

Could we live on Mars? Would we want to? Ian Cheney (The City Dark) examines our fraught relationship with our homeworld by delving into the sci-fi speculation of “terraforming,” or […]

Indian Point Nuclear Power Plant looms just 35 miles from Times Square. With over 50 million people living close to the aging facility, its continued operation has the support of […]

When scientists in the mid-20th century developed the means to mass-produce antibiotics, it was hailed as a medical miracle. Only now are we realizing the potentially disastrous implications. With vérité […]

The life and career of John James Audubon, author of The Birds of America, is a triumphant American story. He came to this country when it was young, explored it […]

The Messenger follows songbirds on a visually sumptuous yet perilous journey through our changing world. We touch down in the dense metropolis of New York City, forsaken suburbs, northern forests, the […]

Our ability to protect what’s left of our vanishing and fragile world is threatened when rapacious developers build golf courses on fragile and historically significant lands. Award-winning filmmaker Anthony Baxter […]