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feature stories

  • Focus Group

    Photojournalist Lynn Johnson teaches students from the Pine Ridge Indian Reservation to see their world through fresh eyes. With text by Michelle Nijhuis.
  • Redrawing the American City

    In their quest to rein in sprawl and create a more livable metropolis, Chicago’s city planners are working to solve a multitude of ills, from time and energy wasted in traffic and lost economic productivity to the biggest problem of all: climate change.
  • Riddle of the Shells

    How many individual animals do you need to keep a species alive? On California's Channel Islands, archaeologists are digging into the deep past to save an ancient mollusk.
  • Stowaway Species

    The blob that ate the Black Sea; the hairy crab that invaded San Francisco. Follow the journey of a single cargo ship to see how these and other ocean interlopers wreak havoc.
  • A Dream of Bears

    In the wild, rain-swept valleys of the Pyrenees, it takes a pure heart to find the last survivors of a race of giants.
  • A Sunny Day in Rizhao

    As China struggles to reduce its carbon footprint, the rooftops of an obscure port city may hold the key to a nation’s solar-powered ambitions.
  • The (New) Web of Life

    What happens when the dusty files of the nineteenth century meet the bots and algorithms of the twenty-first? Perhaps a revolution in our understanding of the natural world.
  • The New Diseases on Our Doorstep

    We're in the midst of a national debate about health-care reform. What better time to design a system strong enough to cope with the new wave of diseases that will accompany climate change and globalization? First up: dengue fever.
  • Designing Woman

    For the visionary landscape designer Diana Balmori, green roofs are just scratching the surface. The real challenge is to rethink how our cities relate to their natural surroundings.
  • India, Enlightened

    Thanks to Slumdog Millionaire, India is hot. Thanks to entrepreneurs, it's booming. Now a new government has to raise a billion people out of poverty without wrecking the environment. What's a poor country to do?

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