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An eroding late Holocene Native American oyster midden at low tide in Fishing Bay, Maryland.
food

Native Societies Harvested Billions of Oysters Sustainably

Conservationists should look to Indigenous history to fix the future.
Diana Hubbell May 13, 2022
The Maiden of Deception Pass.
statues

Podcast: The Maiden of Deception Pass

Join us for a daily celebration of the world’s most wondrous, unexpected, even strange places.
The Podcast Team May 11, 2022
The Humongous Fungus is most visible when it produces the edible and tasty honey mushroom, but the season is brief and doesn’t happen every year.
forests

What the World's Largest Organism Reveals About Fires and Forest Health

In Oregon, the Humongous Fungus plays a complex role in an ecosystem reshaped by humans.
Colin Hogan May 6, 2022
Chocolate chariot driver and his horses (Flickr/SpirosK)
List

12 Places for Chocolate-Lovers Around the World

From chocolate waterfalls to life-size chocolate moose sculptures.
Diana Hubbell May 5, 2022
Lake Superior batters a Minnesota shoreline.
science

Are the Great Lakes Really Inland Seas?

Well, yes. And no. Actually, it depends on where you stand, in more ways than one.
Gemma Tarlach April 27, 2022
Alewives swimming up the Damariscotta River in the springtime.
fish

The Centuries-Old Fish Ladder That Feeds Maine's Lobster Industry

Each spring, more than one million alewives navigate to the fresh water of Damariscotta Lake—with a little help
Annie Sherman April 26, 2022
Ute Mountain Chimney Rock
Towaoc, Colorado

Ute Mountain Tribal Park

Ute tour guides have been sharing the ancient dwellings and rock art inside this large park with visitors for more than 40 years.
science

How Radar Is Helping Track Down Lost Indigenous Gravesites

It's getting easier to find potential remains non-invasively—but that's just one step in a long and painful process.
Diane Peters April 25, 2022
Beach at Piñones
Loíza, Puerto Rico

Piñones

Archaeological sites and great food inside the island's largest mangrove forest.
Maternal pens for cows and calves—and human guardians who watch over them 24/7—are a key part of an Indigenous-led conservation effort to save caribou in British Columbia.
animals

How Indigenous-Led Conservation Brought a Caribou Herd Back From the Brink

An innovative collaboration between two British Columbia First Nations protects the most vulnerable animals.
Ashley Stimpson April 20, 2022
hotels

Podcast: Sinchi Warmi Amazon Lodge

Join us for a daily celebration of the world’s most wondrous, unexpected, even strange places.
The Podcast Team April 6, 2022
Dolores Cacuango, shown here in 1969, is known as "Mama Dolores" or "Mama Warrior," and her name rings out during protests in Ecuador today, 50 years after her death.
women

In the Footsteps of Ecuador's 'Mama Warrior'

How the country's Indigenous communities are keeping the memory of activist Dolores Cacuango alive.
Kimberley Brown March 31, 2022
Anthony Colegrove loads a fisher, which is located in the black cylinder of the trap, into his truckbed. Colegrove, a tribal member, works as a field technician for the Hoopa Valley Tribe’s wildlife division.
science

Monitoring a Rare Carnivore in California's Klamath Mountains

The Hoopa Valley Tribe’s wildlife division maintains some of the most detailed documentation of fishers in North America.
Elizabeth Miller March 28, 2022
Kailua, Hawaii

Ulupō Heiau

Hidden behind a YMCA stands the remains of a ceremonial site that dates back hundreds of years, whose ground is still considered sacred to many Hawaiians.
Leydy Pech considers traditional Maya beekeeping an "ancestral" calling.
mayan

The Keeper of Sacred Bees Who Took on a Giant

To save her native Maya bees and their shrinking forests, Leydy Pech waged a fierce campaign on multiple fronts.
Gemma Tarlach March 23, 2022
Wildlife biologist Serra Hoagland has studied the Mexican spotted owl throughout her career.
forests

The Wildlife Scientist Finding Innovation in Ancient Ideas

Biologist Serra Hoagland bridges Indigenous traditions and modern methods.
Gemma Tarlach March 22, 2022
Tookoolito is credited with saving the lives of the crew of the USS <em>Polaris</em>.
women

What Tookoolito Taught Explorers About the Arctic

In the mid-19th century, white ship captains relied on the Inuit woman and her husband to survive the unforgiving conditions of the Northwest Passage.
Tom Ward March 15, 2022
The 'Pillar of Shame' at Acteal.
Acteal, Mexico

Acteal Pillar of Shame

A 26-foot tall roadside concrete pillar recalls a yet-unresolved 1997 political massacre.