British Columbia’s iconic Jumbo Valley is at the center of a complex multi-decade fight: developer Oberto Oberti plans to build a massive resort in a section of the Purcell Range that’s both a sacred space […]

Grant Hadwin was an expert logger working in Canada’s Pacific Northwest, until his conscience spurred him to challenge the destruction of the world’s last great temperate rainforest in which he’d been complicit. His […]

The Iditarod Trail Sled Dog Race is one of the toughest competitions in the world: over four times more people have summited Everest than have made the thousand-mile journey from Anchorage […]

In the 1930s, the Department of the Interior filmed the nation’s park system in a moment of dynamic growth, capturing everything from the Civilian Conservation Corps blazing trails in Yosemite […]

A vast and largely unexplored wildlife corridor lies hidden on the western side of Florida, stretching from the Everglades to the Alabama border. Three friends set off to immerse themselves […]

A conservation easement ensures that an untouched island in Lake Superior will remain undeveloped; a group of young people gathers there to live in synchrony with the ecosystem. Directed by […]

Gwen Moffat is Britain’s first female mountain guide, and at 91 she’s a wealth of wit and stories. Filmmaker Jen Randall and writer Claire Carter interview her, while attempting the […]

In the Te Urewara forests of northern New Zealand, the fiercely independent Tūhoe Maori tribe undertakes the building of a grand new meeting hall using radically sustainable methods. Their “Living Building” embodies the community’s deep and […]

When biologist E.O. Wilson discovered in the 1960s that ants use pheromones to structure their complex societies, he opened the door to a vastly expanded sense of our environment – […]

Over the course of 40 years, photographer Sebastião Salgado has borne witness to the plights of marginalized communities the world over, from famines to civil wars to unsafe labor conditions. […]