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The humanist scholar fudged a language into existence.

Indigenous farmers in Utah are championing an ancient spud.

Traces from the ancient past are hidden in photographs from the Cold War.

“One animal’s waste is another animal’s banquet.”

Just another day in Hawaiian conservation.

In Thailand, humans and simians share harvesting duties.

John Margolies played an outsize role in memorializing America’s outsize attractions.

Bend the macaro-knee.

For hundreds of years, sailors have zipped across frozen lakes and rivers—but now chances are fewer and farther between.

In a place that comes and goes, slow archaeological work has to be done fast.

A new exhibit celebrates the life and work of Carl Cotton.

Jobie Hill has visited 700 former residences. Many have been abandoned. Some have become storage space. Others are B&Bs.

The Beirut Egg is riddled with bullet holes and covered in graffiti. Protesters recently reclaimed it.

For mushers in the Iditarod dog-sled race, stopping in Takotna is a treat.

Noah Berger is in his element amid smoke and flames.

Human harm is burned into Réunion’s ecological record.

The Tseshaht people are working with archaeologists to write a new chapter in a fraught history.

“It sounds like if you got a big Slurpee, and then dumped it on the ground.”