Photo Essays

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

People around the world are taking to the streets today to fight for workers' rights.

The Salton Sea was once known as California's Desert Riviera. Today it's struggling to stay alive, despite residents' best efforts at revitalization.

At least 15 people were killed in the wreckage in Montecito, California. Dozens more are still missing.

The Thomas Fire had burned an estimated at 65,500 acres and destroyed hundreds of structures as of mid-morning Wednesday.

Photographing LGBT citizens in countries where homosexuality is still criminalized.

In Morocco, illegitimate children have no papers, no last name, and are vulnerable to trafficking, but some devoted caregivers have found a way to give them a better life.

At a refugee camp in Kenya, commerce is largely improvisational.

The 7.3-magnitude earthquake killed more than 400 people and injured thousands.

In the field, researchers find ways to repair bits and pieces of a disrupted world. My own path began 30 years ago at Mono Lake.

In one Santa Rosa neighborhood, all that remains is the husk of a community.

The third in a string of cataclysmic hurricanes, Maria hit the Caribbean just two weeks after Hurricane Irma devastated the region.

Their numbers are dwindling in a seaside town that once gave them refuge—but their culture remains.

A look inside the Juggalo March on Washington.

Interaction of forests and fungi plays a huge role in the Earth's global carbon cycle.

Five landmarks in the American Southwest illustrate the limits of engineering the environment to human favor.

A look at the Somali-American women who have risen to political power in Minnesota.

In the first half of the 20th century, coal communities across the Illinois Basin boomed. In 1990, new regulations set off an industry implosion, and the vitality of the region went with it.

Influxes of African, Asian, and Latino Americans helped Houston's metro area avoid economic stagnation. Could an expected demographic shift on the national level end up reviving other troubled cities?

How nine photographers navigated floods, rubble, and suspicions of espionage to capture some of the most striking images of the last half-century.

To sustain mountain communities, we need more monitoring and better governance.

The indigenous Amazonian people stand strong, despite the forces that have despoiled their home.

Personal stories from the residents of Tent City 3.

Life on board a small cruise ship in the Northwest Passage.