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. […]

Plasmodial slime mold is like something out of science fiction: creeping right beneath our feet, its intricate living systems warp our perception of time and space and challenge our definitions […]

Nuclear waste forces us to think about the distant future: the radioactive trail from our bombs and power plants will last 400 generations. Repeat: 400 generations! So we need a […]

Kramatorsk may not be the nicest place – a town of factories and broken infrastructure – but its denizens find much to love there, reflecting on their home with frankness […]

At the height of the recession, a DC nonprofit struggles to implement an ambitious “green jobs” program that hires 150 unemployed residents to plant trees in underserved parks. With only […]

Pro-business loopholes allow the American chemical industry to export pesticides to other countries even after they’d been federally banned for their harmful effects. On top of damaging already-marginalized communities abroad, […]

When soldiers working on a mysterious dig site contract a supernatural “sleeping sickness,” doctors and volunteer nurses set up a makeshift hospital where the treatments include colored light therapy, psychic […]

When a little girl realizes that the frozen fish fingers her parents feed her were once living fish, she tries to send them back to the sea.   Directed and […]

To some, South LA may conjure images of vacant lots and liquor stores; gangs and drug dealers. Yet a burgeoning movement of urban gardeners guided by a charismatic leader is […]

Two photographers visit California’s Central Valley to cover the state’s historic drought, leaving with staggering black-and-white images of a bounty turned to desolation, along with the dire testimonies of the […]