Winner of the 2016 Eric Moe Sustainability Film Award! People call Al Larson “The Bluebird Man” for good reason:  at 92, this self-taught conservationist has dedicated 35 years of his […]

Under the cover of legal loopholes and “wildlife sanctuary” fronts, breeding facilities in South Africa raise lions in captivity to be shot at close range by the highest bidder. In […]

The “bird rangers” of the Boschplaat Nature Reserve on the northern Dutch island of Terschelling, have always done much more than guard the wetlands. They’re full-fledged scientists, closely monitoring the […]

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 […]

As the United States transitions to a “minority majority” nation, a staggering number of people of color do not identify with America’s wild places. Nine climbers set out on the […]