Employing both personal anecdotes from his field work as director of the John Muir Project — a nonprofit “dedicated to the ecological management of our federal public forestlands” — and scores of peer-reviewed studies, Hanson champions forest protection “as a coequal part of solving the climate emergency, along with a shift away from fossil fuels.”

The glaciers of the last ice age spared this region, and thus spared it the drift — the silt, the boulders, the assorted debris — common throughout much of the northern hemisphere.

According to data recently compiled by the University of Maryland and released via Global Forest Watch, an online monitoring platform, the tropics lost 4.2 million hectares (about 10.4 million acres) of humid primary forest last year. That was up 12 percent over 2019 and amounted to roughly the size of the Netherlands.

The hidden history of the Holt County Plantation.

Some call it the “Illinois Ozarks.” Others call it “Egypt” or “Little Egypt,” a nickname derived, some say, like the nearby town of Cairo, from the fertile bottomlands that once resembled its namesake. Philosopher Baker Brownell, in his penetrating 1958 book, called it simply “The Other Illinois.”

In 2016, Wheelan and his wife…embarked on a nine-month world tour with their son, CJ, and two daughters, Sophie and Katrina, all of them starkly different and sensationally teenage. They called it a "family gap year."

From one bright student to another, a shared address discovered by chance shows a Georgia Tech legacy come full circle.

A road trip through the Nebraska Sandhills reveals wide-open spaces and natural wonders.

Dr. Enric Sala, founder of the ocean conservation initiative Pristine Seas, constructs an enlightened defense for biodiversity in his first book, The Nature of Nature: Why We Need the Wild.

The unsung writer, known to many as “Anonymous,” led a life of indelible verse

A new framework for pathogen evolution exposes a world much more vulnerable to disease outbreaks than previously thought. It also reveals how to anticipate and fight the next one.

How a brilliant quip led to a treatment that helps millions every minute.

The minutes eddied on the surface, the hours, circulating around his cell like gobbets of river foam, hope dithering in the darkness.

A 22 year old black man was shot and killed by a white bar owner after a fight broke out during a protest in Omaha – the shooter has claimed self-defense

Satellite data gathered by the University of Maryland and recently released via Global Forest Watch, an online forest monitoring platform directed by the WRI, indicate that 2019 was the third highest year for tropical primary forest loss since the turn of the century.

Testing began on East Campus a century ago and keeps on rolling.

A single kerosene lamp hung from a nail above the door, the glass coated in dust. Elijah Touhey sat in the dirt, head dripping between his knees, shirt glued to the bloody nubs of his spine.

Demand has increased at small meat processors and butchers, as the country's industrial-scale meatpacking facilities have become coronavirus hotspots and been forced to close or reduce their output.

Elijah Touhey had promised rain, and none had come, and now, on the second day of June, 1894, he found himself lashed to a telegraph pole at the corner of 4th and Main.  

After successful careers in both medicine and law, Steve Wallace finds a new calling in photography.