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Environment

Garlic smashed potatoes with superworms.

Roaches Taste Like Blue Cheese, and Other Bugsgiving Revelations

This Thanksgiving, why not feast on insects?

Ella Morton November 20, 2018

Dinner time.

Found: Teeth From a Medieval Sea Monster/Delicacy

Fancy a lamprey pie?

Matthew Taub November 1, 2018

A reef ball graveyard beneath the waves.

Bury Me in an Artificial Reef

One Florida-based company offers a second life at sea by adding cremains to something called a reef ball.

Eric Grundhauser October 29, 2018

Sluice at night.

Sluice

This striking steel sculpture transforms environmental data into art.

Pando in the autumn.

Mule Deer Are Eating Away at the Most Massive Living Thing in the World

A special aspen grove needs the chance to regenerate.

Matthew Taub October 18, 2018

The winning canopy design.

This Award-Winning Australian Land Art Is Designed to Power 900 Homes

But will it ever be built?

Evan Nicole Brown October 12, 2018

Up, up, and away.

Why North America’s Gangliest Bird Is Hitching a Ride With the Coast Guard

Whooping cranes are on the move, because of budget cuts.

Jessica Leigh Hester October 9, 2018

Home damage caused by Hurricane Stan.

How a Hurricane Prompted Guatemala to Prioritize Land Preservation

Hurricane Stan hit 13 years ago today.

Evan Nicole Brown October 3, 2018

View from the hilltop.

Brooks, Kentucky

Valley of the Drums

This calm grassy field was once a Superfund site full of thousands of nasty chemicals.

Ecologist Morton J. Elrod used this boulder to measure the terminus of Grinnell Glacier in 1926. Now, no ice is visible from the rock.

Climate Change Is Coming for America's National Parks

Goodbye, glaciers.

Jessica Leigh Hester September 25, 2018

Four donkeys pose beneath a striking sky at Peaceful Valley's San Angelo ranch.

The Donkey Refuge Where Burros Become Coyote-Kicking Livestock Guardians

With the right training, feral donkeys go from zero to hero.

Abbey Perreault September 25, 2018

The riparian buffers flanking the Niger River in Timbuktu, Mali, appear in red.

Striking Satellite Images of Cities on the Brink

A fresh perspective on the fragility and resilience of our world.

Jessica Leigh Hester September 24, 2018

Charles Kellogg with his van, The Travel Log.

Charles Kellogg Sang Like a Bird and Drove a Giant Tree

The vaudeville entertainer turned a California redwood into a mobile "Travel Log."

Natasha Frost September 6, 2018

A sleek side view of the farm, with the shrubby cow garden on top.

All Aboard the World's First Floating Dairy Farm

More sustainable food production may call for plopping cows on the water.

Abbey Perreault August 22, 2018

Sea stars in the Gulf of Mexico in 2017.

Found: The Last Traces of Unspoiled Ocean

They're few and far between.

Jessica Leigh Hester July 30, 2018

Sign at Fort Douaumont reads: Danger, Access Forbidden.

Fleury-devant-Douaumont, France

Zone Rouge

A swath of France so devastated by war it is still forbidden to go there.

Rocky Mountain Land Library

Fairplay, Colorado

Rocky Mountain Land Library

This 19th-century ranch is being transformed into a residential library with thousands of books about the natural world.

From left, the photographer Jorge "Jota" Arango, the conservationist John Myers, the tourist and birdwatcher Jim Sandor, the Colombian ornithologist Oswaldo Cortes, and the local guide Jose Luis Ropero stand at the top of the Serranía del Perijá mountains.

In Search of Rare Birds and Glory in Colombia

How an international birdwatching competition draws attention to the country's at-risk natural bounty.

Lucy Sherriff May 11, 2018