The West: land of frontier aspirations, gold-pan booms and dot-com busts. Things are bigger out West, we're told, and maybe they're better too.
We're creating a new series of photo essays about issues affecting the North American West. If you’ve got a photo to share or a tale to tell – we want to see it and we’d love to hear it.
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In 2009, Harrison Leaf was one of many university graduates facing a tough job market. Instead of working as a bartender, he decided to found a renewable energy company in Kenya.
The winning photographs from this year’s International Society of Tropical Foresters Conference Photo Contest are as diverse as the tropical regions in which they were captured. These winning photos represent images from more than a dozen tropical countries and depict forests in transition, solitary travelers and unique animals, indigenous communities and sweeping, epic landscapes. Enjoy!
Documentary filmmaker Marshall Curry has said that he likes to "present people's best arguments and let those smack into each other." His third and most recent project does this exceedingly well – many good arguments, much tough smacking.
The author of the acclaimed book, “Four Fish: The Future of the Last Wild Food,” on fishing, writing, and healing the world’s oceans.
A group of starlings is called a murmuration. A group of tigers is called a streak (or an ambush). Why?