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When Jason Helnen was 21, he took a job with Tesla as a salesperson in San Francisco. A big part of Heinen's motivation was to be part of a company [...]

Just shy of three decades ago when I was a single mother looking for side gigs, I answered an ad for farm labor at a fruit packing plant. The job [...]

In mid-Juxe, I was traveling with my partner through Northern California and into the Pacific Northwest to attend a climate justice conference, a heat wave chasing after us. Mere hours [...]

Kochkor Kaldarbaev still remembers the forest of his childhood. It's dense, with thickets of tall grass and brambles that make walking in a straight line impossible. Trees come in all [...]

From a distance, the massive, colorful portraits by Deniz Sagdig are undeniably striking, but it is the medium and not the work itself that creates a fundamental shift in thought. [...]

At the end of a road deep within Khao Yai National Park in Thailand's Nakhon Nayok province, near a low-slung rangers' cottage, Professor Vijak Chimchome of the Thailand Hornbill Project [...]

On a recent morning in Medirigiriya, Sri Lanka, the streets were filled with the fragrance of curry buns and string hopper noodles as uniformed schoolchildren, commuters on bicycles, and shopkeepers [...]

In January 2021, I traveled to an obscure part of northern Nevada with my friend Will Falk, pitched a tent, and began a protest campaign against a planned open-pit lithium [...]

IN THE AFTERMATH OF HURRICANES, ROODS, AND FIRES, MANY UNDOCUMENTED WORKERS HELP PEOPLE COME HOME. WE NEED TO OFFER THEM A HOME AS WELL. We are living through a time [...]

Ten years ago, over 300,000 people joined in the People's Climate March in the streets of New York City under the slogan: 'To change everything, we need everyone.' Since then, [...]

Before dawn in the coastal Maine town of Jonesport, Nick Perreault wakes up, caffeinates, and prepares before his day fishing for lobster. Driving through town, Perreault mentally gears up for [...]

The BlueGreen Alliance envisions a nation of good jobs and a clean environment. But that's not as easy as it sounds. In June 2019, labor and environmental activists from the [...]

A HERD OF ELEPHANTS traipses across the acacia-dotted savannah alongside stately giraffes and a dazzle of zebra. A pride of hungry lions closes in on an anxious water buffalo. Hundreds [...]

PICTURE A TALL jamun tree (Java plum, Syzygium cumini) growing in a busy urban neighborhood in an Indian city. It is summer and time for the jamun to bear fruit--a [...]

Old fabrics hold a special charm for Bryony Rose Jennings. She has been collecting them since she was a young girl, picking them up at car-boot sales with her father, [...]

IT'S A SATURDAY afternoon in October, and Abel Orlando Puca is on his way to a monthly community meeting of residents in San Miguel de los Colorados, a hamlet of [...]

SNOW IN EARLY December has become a rare phenomenon in Germany in recent years, but this past winter a sudden snowstorm hit the south of the country hard resulting in [...]

A few months ago, I got a midday text from my son's daycare. He had fallen off a rocking horse and bitten his tongue. It was a pretty run-of-the-mill injury [...]

When being transported to prison, Cinquan 'Umar' Muhammed said, most people try to take their mind off things through chatter. But he's a quiet person, and in the nearly 30 [...]

Nearly three decades ago, Dr. Gladys Kalema-Zikusoka became Uganda's first national wildlife veterinarian. At the time, hardly any women worked in conservation in the country and no female rangers operated [...]

'I love to see what young people can do before someone old tells them it's impossible.' This pithy quip by David Brower, the legendary environmentalist and founder of Earth Island [...]

D I V I N G beneath a white cathedral of ice, I could hear the shrill whistles, honks, and squeaks of harp seals. They could easily have been mistaken [...]

DANGLING ON A ROPE SOME 40 FEET UP, AMID A LABYRINTH of leafy tree limbs, I looked down and questioned my sanity for asking the two men far below to [...]

I FOLLOWED A PATH made soft by years of fallen needles through a hemlock forest. Up ahead a glow looked as if a fire had been struck in a patch [...]

ON A MILD SATURDAY MORNING IN EARLY JUNE, Jamie Tezbir braced herself for a grievous decision. She was making her second trip to the emergency room in a week. Hospital [...]

ON A BRISK MARCH AFTERNOON, Kazuhiko Akiba and a colleague stood in the courtyard of the Chiba Kogaku glass factory in Japan, ready to unveil their latest creation. A forklift [...]

Archaeological evidence suggests that organized glass production began in the Middle East and Mediterranean region over 35 centuries ago as an alternative to ceramics. From the earliest iterations of glass [...]

IN A TALE OF TWO CITIES. Charles Dickens's 1859 novel set during the French Revolution, he wrote: 'It was the best of times, it was the worst of times, it [...]

A photographer with a passion for small creatures gets up close with the diminutive and enchanting worlds of insects. IT'S SPRINGTIME in the Balkan Mountains, and in a lush expanse, [...]

ONE WOULD BE HARD-PRESSED to find a better motivator for climate action than the oil refinery in Torrance, California. The sprawling complex of towers and tanks spans 750 acres in [...]

APRIL MONROE SPENT her teenage years in Evansville, an Alaska Native village that sits on the willow-lined banks of the Koyukuk River on the southern flank of the Brooks Range, [...]

LYING BELLY DOWN, her elbows propped on the edge of a cliff, Shirine Bou Raffoul peers through her binoculars, watching a group of men and boys among the pines on [...]

STEPPING GENTLY THROUGH the palatial, jewel-green Kakamega, Kenya's last tropical rainforest, Abraham Shiramba has his ears tuned to distant birdsong. His eyes scan the forest that he knows like a [...]

IT's 5:50 AM AND I'M IN Chaiyaphum province, Thailand, following a single-file column of russet-robed monks as they tread barefoot down the red-dirt road that runs between their monastery and [...]

As she nervously waited for the doctors to begin a cesarean section, she put on a playlist she had made for the occasion. It consisted of songs she found calming [...]

Butterflies stream through the trees in El Rosario, a sanctuary within the Monarch Butterfly Biosphere Reserve in Michoacan, Mexico. Migrating monarchs winter in the same oyamel fir groves that sheltered [...]

Freshwater fanshell mussels rely on darter fish, including the tangerine and Roanoke, for their survival. Mussel larvae attach for weeks to darters, where they absorb vital nutrients to develop. A [...]

THE JAVARI RIVER SPLITS BRAZIL AND PERU as it flows deep into the Amazon forest. The only signs of human life along the waterway are the occasional boat or dock [...]

The Netherlands' Rottumeroog is located in the Waddenzee. a tidal wetland that connects to the North Sea The island is a vital rest stop for hundreds of thousands of migrating [...]

Hajnoczky researches each ecosystem and collects representative items. Arranged here for imaging on her scanner: eelgrass and the empty shells of a snail and a California mussel from a beach [...]

Where Have All the Caribou Gone? CLYDE MORRY IS CHASING THE HERD HARD. He jams the throttle down, spitting up a fine curtain of white crystals. I follow and can't [...]

AN INSIDE LOOK AT THE FABLED ALHAMBRA. WHERE SPAIN'S LAST MUSLIM KINGDOM RULED FOR NEARLY 300 YEARS Intimate spaces frame outdoor views. The defensive Tower of the Captive (left), named [...]

NATIONAL GEOGRAPHY PHOTOGRAPHERS TRAVEL THE GLOBE TO CAPTURE THE WONDER OF OUR WORLD AND THE SPIRIT OF OUR TIMES HERE WE PRESENT OUR ANNUAL SELECTION OF THEIR BEST WORK ARCTIC [...]

The US food system is the largest employer in this country. Around 22 million people work to put food on our tables, on farms and at sea, slicing, dicing, freezing [...]

In early 2021, eyes around the world turned toward Alabama. In Bessemer, about a 40-minute drive from where I live, the BHM 1 Amazon fulfillment center became the site of [...]

In July, I visited Hattiesburg, Mississippi, to speak at a renewable energy panel that was focused on the Biden administration's proposed $500-million investment in the first commercial-scale green steel-manufacturing facility [...]

In November 1999, when trade unionists and environmentalists came together in the streets of Seattle to challenge the World Trade Organization's exploitative corporate agenda, it was such a novel partnership [...]

Until moments before, it had been resting on an ice floe deep in an Antarctic channel. Then three killer whales' heads appear, bobbing up and down. The orcas are hunting. [...]

OVER THE PAST FEW CENTURIES, WE HAVE DUG, CHOPPED, BURNED, DRILLED, PUMPED, STRIPPED, FORGED, FLARED, LIT, LAUNCHED, DRIVEN, AND FLOWN OUR WAY TO ADDING 2.4 TRILLION METRIC TONS OF CARBON [...]

ON AN ICE-CRUSTED RIDGE 3,000 feet above the angry swell of the South Atlantic, Emma Nicholson takes a deep breath behind her respirator, checks her climbing harness, and steps inside [...]