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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 [...]

Seven arctic wolves slide across a frozen pond beneath the 24-hour sunlight of the summer Canadian Arctic in 2018. Even though my watch says it's after midnight, the sky won't [...]

IN LATE NOVEMBER LAST YEAR, I traveled to the Norwegian port city of Tromso and boarded a northbound icebreaker called the KV Svalbard. The ship belonged to the kystvakt, the [...]

IN THE BLUE LIGHT OF AN EARLY ARCTIC morning, seven wolves slid across a frozen pond, yipping and squealing and chasing a chunk of ice about the size of a [...]

LATE ON A GRAY NOVEMBER AFTERNOON Marvin Atqittuq, a newly elected patrol commander in the Arctic community of Gjoa Haven, stood on the frozen sea outside town and called his [...]

EARLY ON A COLD JUNE MORNINO, I stood in darkness near the west bank of Tokyo's Sumida River, watching tourists pull on bright nylon vests. They were green and glaring [...]

Late on a sweltering morning in April, two slim British cavers named Frank and Cookie lowered themselves into a slick, humid pit deep below Borneo's rainforest. CLIMBING DOWN PAST AN [...]

The article explores the mysterious decline of caribou herds in North America, particularly focusing on the Western Arctic herd. Researchers have struggled to pinpoint the cause of this decline, with factors such as mining, climate change, and industrial development all contributing to the problem. It discusses that the situation is especially dire for Indigenous communities that heavily rely on caribou for sustenance and cultural significance.

The 24-year-old university student smiled as he left his parents' home in Slemani, a city in Iraqi Kurdistan, bought cigarettes, made a few phone calls. He and many of his [...]

'What, gracious God, is man that there should he such inconsistency and perfidiousness in his conduct? It was hut the other day that we were shedding our blood to obtain [...]

IN LATE JUNE, I WAS TRAVELING WITH photographer Lynsey Addario through Sicily, working on a story about migrants arriving in Europe from Africa. During a car trip across the island, [...]

On a hot spring morning, Galte Nyemeto stood by the shore of Lake Turkana scanning for crocodiles. The water was shallow, the odds of reptiles low, but Nyemeto, a traditional [...]

IN THE MORNING, after the rain, I headed for a rusting watchtower at the edge of the U.N. compound to see what water had done to the desert. Already frogs […]

The soldiers around me were barely visible, but I could smell them. They had not washed for days, and a sharp musk of sweat and sleeplessness, tobacco and chemically mummified [...]

THE CAB GLIDES THROUGH SATURDAY MORNING. The great avenues are quiet, the shops closed. From a bakery comes the scent of fresh bread. At a stoplight a blur of movement [...]

Sometime after midnight, from an observation post at a small base in Paktya Province, American soldiers watched the battle begin. Tracer rounds streamed into the January sky, followed by the [...]

[ILLUSTRATION OMITTED] [ILLUSTRATION OMITTED] [ILLUSTRATION OMITTED] Dunga Nakuwa cups his face in his hands and remembers his mother's voice. She has been dead nearly two years, but for Dunga's tribe [...]

The lizard moved in frightened rhythms across the sun-blasted stone. A few quick steps, a turn of its boxy head. Then the stillness, the absolute zero, of a creature that [...]

MOUNT WASHINGTON RISES RUMPLED AND SOFT ABOVE the New Hampshire forests, beyond the brick towns, the old mills, and the cold cities, but not really too far away from anything. [...]

In a nearly empty cantina in a dark desert town, the short, drunk man makes his pitch. Beside him on the billiards table sits a chunk of rock the size [...]

THE YOUNG MEN WADE THROUGH THIGH-HIGH GRASS beneath the firs and ponderosa pines, calmly setting the forest on fire. They carry torches, dispensing burning droplets of gasoline and diesel fuel. [...]

FRONTLINES THE WAR IS ON HOLD. The soldiers of Charlie 2-4 sprawl on battered chairs and couches in dust-lined rooms that stink of sweat and half-eaten meals. They stare at [...]

White water is fearsome enough on the surface. Pour a river into light-swallowing limestone tunnels and it becomes terrifying. Deep beneath the rain forests of New Britain, an island off [...]

Hoop dreams take flight on a homemade court as Jeanny St. Fleur (in white) sails the ball home. 'The basket kept falling,' says Wideline Jean, 17, who snapped the photo. […]

THANK YOU FOR YOUR SERVICE By David Finkel Sarah Crichton Books/Farrar, Straus and Giroux 256 pp., $26 NOTHING IS QUITE SO invisible as the last war. Already the war in [...]