Con su canal a través de Nicaragua, el presidente Daniel Ortega sueña con superar al canal de Panamá. Pero en la aldea de Bangkukuk Taik, y en todo el país, un movimiento de resistencia protege la cultura indígena y el medio ambiente, y expone los grandiosos vínculos proyecto con un misterioso hombre de negocios chino.

With his trans-Nicaragua canal, President Daniel Ortega dreams of outdoing the Panama Canal. But in the village of Bangkukuk Taik, and across the country, a resistance movement is protecting indigenous culture and the environment—and exposing the grandiose project's ties to a mysterious Chinese businessman.

In 2013, when FEMA redrew flood maps for the coast of Maine to account for more powerful hurricanes, some of the new high-risk zones were not only inaccurate, but expensive and difficult to correct. Wealthy vacation towns could easily foot the bill, protecting access to development dollars, but many struggling fishing villages could not.

Five groups successfully fighting addiction in Newark, Ohio, that could serve as a model for others around the country.

The opioids are here, and meth is resurgent. When it's easier than ever to rationalize the first hit, and the options are limitless, even a community-wide effort might not be enough to stop the overdoses.

Three years after India and Bangladesh exchanged exclaves to simplify the world's most complex border, many who chose to move rather than to change their citizenship find that their prospects are not what they'd hoped.

A tiny territory on the Black Sea hopes to boost its bid for nationhood by welcoming Syrians fleeing civil war.

From Liberland to Sealand, a partial tour of semi-autonomous, breakaway states.

Gerrymandering in the Great Lakes State has cost some communities their representation, their schools, and their access to clean drinking water.

Recent court challenges to politically motivated redistricting have yielded several decisions not to decide.

Twenty-five years following a survivor of childhood sexual trauma and abuse.

An investigation into the deadly business of building oil and gas pipelines.

Members and backers of the Trump administration are profiting from DAPL while scheming to make even bigger bucks shipping oil and petrochemicals overseas.

How we uncovered the numbers behind pipeline construction fatalities.

Scientists predict Tangier Island could be uninhabitable within 25 years. This is the story of the people willing to go down with it—and why they've risked it all on Donald Trump to keep them afloat.

Introducing Pacific Standard's collaboration with Magnum Photos and the Pulitzer Center on Crisis Reporting.

In just over 40 years, we've gone from simple modifications to the development of a gene drive that could eradicate an entire species.

We are on the brink of being able to genetically engineer an extinction. Should we?

Around the world, camels are disappearing, along with the cultures and traditions of the people who have kept them.

Inside the effort to reintroduce grizzlies to California.

On the frontlines of extinction in the Gulf of California, where the vaquita faces its final days.

Over the last 10 years, the poaching and trafficking of animal products has become the fourth-highest-grossing crime in the world. But because wildlife crime is not bound by national borders and each country has its own rules and ideas, its management and policing has become unwieldy at best.

Australian plant ecologist Brenton Ladd wants to reengineer the notoriously nutrient-poor soils in the Amazon, and, in the process, save the world's trees. But first, he has to convince Peruvian farmers and non-profits—and occasionally, his own research team—that he's not just another gringo with a strange idea.

The agency has left immigrants and minorities to fend for themselves at toxic waste sites across the country.