On January 23, dozens of biologists laden with electrified backpacks, nets and buckets marched into the smoldering moonscape that the Palisades Fire had created in the Santa Monica Mountains. A
Anna Fiorentino Freelance writer Earlier this month, relentless 90-mile-an-hour Santa Ana winds sent wildfires tearing through Greater Los Angeles, taking more than two dozen lives, flattening neighborhoods and decimating biodiversity.
A firefighter works as the Hughes Fire burns north of Los Angeles on January 22. Mario Tama / Getty Images Los Angeles is burning, but it isn’t alone. In recent
Photographs selected by Allison Scates Text by Tracy Scott Forson Known for its distinct wildlife and breathtaking landscapes, Australia often appears on bucket lists of must-see destinations. The ancestral home
Diana Kruzman Freelance writer In September 2023, Moshe Harel watched the waters of Mantua Reservoir, a lake that supplied water to Brigham City, Utah, turn from pea-green to a clear
Photos by Simona Ghizzoni / Images via the Metropolitan Museum of Art under public domain Italian researcher Isabella Dalla Ragione has a most unusual job. An “arboreal archaeologist,” Dalla Ragione