Features & Investigations

Is the genetically engineered chestnut tree an act of ecological restoration or a threat to wild forests?

An excerpt from Robert Macfarlane's new book Underland.

Panchito Olachea crossed the border into the U.S. at 16, and was deported at 48. He's now building a community of deportees who, like him, won't try to cross back.

Perry Dino is capturing Hong Kong's demonstrations against the mainland in a series of unique and powerful paintings.

Hundreds of Marines lost their lives in Helmand before troop withdrawal. Christopher Jones returned to see what those lives had been lost to achieve.

Countries riven by inequality and xenophobia won't be resilient to climate change—which means that the fight against nationalism and the fight against global warming are actually one and the same.

Instead of releasing detainees, ICE is sending immigrants to remote, privately run facilities far from their lawyers and families.

Separated by ideology, we carried on with our lives in starkly different places, each sticking to the truth we'd chosen to listen to, unable to see the other's reality.

A dispatch from the ongoing war on America’s public lands.

From the beginning, the Central Valley's productivity was a result of the most intensive farming experiment the world had ever seen. And now, farmers are pushing even harder against biological realities. An excerpt from Mark Arax's critically acclaimed new book, "The Dreamt Land."

In low, pharmaceutical-grade doses, meth may actually repair and protect the brain in certain circumstances.

What would it look like if a small group of billionaires took unilateral climate action through solar radiation management?

Young artists are finding creative ways to carve a space in Portland's lively—if fractious and often ignored—hip-hop scene.

States in the Deep South limit access to the polls. So does New York.

Donald Trump blamed David Green, the local UAW president, for the plant's shutdown. Green is now fighting for his union members' futures.

Attaullah Nasib came of age in the United States. When he ran for Afghan Parliament, he learned how difficult re-building a democracy can be.

An art therapy project in an Alaska Native village helps teens talk about suicide in their community.

A quest through California to find which addiction and recovery centers aren't using medication-assisted treatment—our country's best bet for beating the opioid crisis.

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.

Alison Van Eenennaam has spent the last decade explaining gene editing to critics who find fear more compelling than data. Is anybody listening?

The Department of Homeland Security fumbled a domestic terrorism report in 2009 that warned about right-wing militias targeting the U.S. Army for recruits.

Greg Grey Cloud is combining traditional Lakota horse rituals with equine therapy to treat PTSD—and much more.

Maps, long used by colonizers to dispossess native peoples, are becoming a tool for indigenous people to reclaim sovereignty over their lands.

The Three Mile Island partial meltdown led the U.S. away from nuclear. Global warming might bring it back.