Life on Sonsorol revolves around the reefs, and the children’s play teaches them many important skills.  Viewed from ...

The term limit implies a boundary that cannot be breached, but deep in its etymology, the word bends and bows. The restriction relents. The furthest point opens and ushers us into something new. In ...

Photographer and National Geographic Explorer Kiliii Yüyan brings to life stories from the Arctic sea ice, beneath the waves, ...

Marcia Bjornerud’s wise and sweeping book, Turning to Stone: Discovering the Sublte Wisdom of Rocks, shows us how learning to situate our human selves within the expanded time scales of deep geology ...

LAKE SUPERIOR ON A CALM DAY has a depth clarity of over a hundred feet. In shallow waters, boulders appear to be just below the surface. Near shore, trash creates a timeline of occupation: plates, ...

BEFORE I WENT TO Manaus, a port city in Brazil’s Amazonian rainforest, I knew one thing about it, and was not sure if it was even true. It was the story dramatized in Werner Herzog’s titular film ...

IN OUR FREE TIME, WE DESTROY TREES. Hundreds of them by now. Five years ago, soon after I bought the place, I gave my partner a Husqvarna 450 Rancher for Christmas. Since then, he’s had to replace the ...

IN THE FALL OF 1941, as the Nazis invaded Russia, choking trade routes into Leningrad and starving the city’s population, a group of botanists decided to not allow the world to end. They were ...

IT IS SPRING IN HOUSTON, which means that each day the temperature rises and so does the humidity. The bricks of my house sweat. In my yard the damp air condenses on the leaves of the crepe myrtle ...

EARLY IN 2004, a buoy was released into the waters off Argentina. Half of the buoy was dark and the other light, like a planet in relief. The buoy sailed east, accompanied by the vastness of the ocean ...

We are proud to announce that this essay won the 2026 James Beard Foundation Journalism Award for the best food-related personal essay. You can read some of Erica Berry’s thoughts on winning, and ...

SOMETIMES REVENGE IS the only first response to betrayal. Then comes the journey toward healing. When Beyoncé’s husband, rapper and music mogul Jay-Z, cheated on her with the now infamous “Becky with ...