Raging in mines from Pennsylvania to China, coal fires threaten towns, poison air and water, and add to global warming
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It’s hard enough to identify fossilized microbes on Earth. How would we ever recognize them on Mars?
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Twenty-five years ago this month, smallpox was officially eradicated. For the Indians of the high plains, it came a century and a half too late
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You may not want them on your pizza, but along the Mediterranean they’re a prized delicacy and a cultural treasure
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The volatile Korubo of the Amazon still live in almost total isolation. Indian tracker Sydney Possuelo is trying to keep their world intact
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With a new Indian memorial, the site of Custer’s last stand draws descendants of victors and vanquished alike
In Jackson, Mississippi, preservationists are restoring the verdant retreat that sustained novelist Eudora Welty
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Cape Cod’s two-lane Route 6A offers a direct conduit to a New England of yesteryear
At Ojo Caliente, site of New Mexico’s ancient hot springs, an artisan revives the craft of Native American pottery
Architect Santiago Calatrava created an urban landmark in the guise of an addition for the Milwaukee Art Museum
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Since the 1930s, the 2,650-mile Pacific Crest Trail, extending from Mexico to Canada, has beckoned young and old
Pennekamp State Park—the nation’s first coral-reef santcuary—protects a thriving ecosystem beneath the waves
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Civil rights chronicler Ernest Withers also photographed the glories of black baseball, including pioneering big leaguer Jackie Robinson
In Libya, again open to U.S. travelers after more than two decades, archaeologists have uncovered spectacular mosaics of the glories of Rome
A trove of recorded sounds preserves everything from tree frog calls to murmurs of the heart
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During Prohibition, an odd alliance of special interests argued beer was vital medicine
Science suffers a setbackand leads to a breakthrough
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After a winter of waiting, the corps leaves Fort Mandan and heads warily into bear country
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