In "The Creatures' Guide to Caring," Elizabeth Preston traces myriad methods of caregiving across the natural world.

It was after seeing a friend go through multiple miscarriages that Kristin Spaans decided to help. With two children of her own, the now 38-year-old offered to become a surrogate and carry her ...

For decades, a global transition has been underway: The slow, sometimes clumsy shift from fossil fuels to renewable energy. Changing just one industry requires a significant infrastructural makeover.

By Mark Olalde and Lucas Waldron, ProPublica, and Jimmy Tobias for High Country News. Photography by Roberto “Bear” Guerra, High Country News Once every 10 years, ranchers must renew the permits that ...

Brad Fuller was a toddler when he contracted polio in 1952 and was sent to a hospital miles from his northeast Pennsylvania home. He stayed there for nine months, enduring long stints in an iron lung, ...

With the first light, men in long boats are on the Upper Citarum River, filling their hulls with bottles, cans and bits of broken plastic — anything that can be recycled for a few rupiahs. Everything ...

In 2006, a new study on antidepressants was making headlines with its promising results: Two-thirds of participants who tried various antidepressants recovered from their depression symptoms within ...

In August of 2018, Hortensia Caballero Arias boarded a small plane that would take her deep into the Amazon in search of feces. Her destination was the home of the Yanomami, indigenous ...

Last November, I was standing in the backyard of a home in the West Bank looking at the fire-blackened pit where a pile of electronic waste had been burned — a lucrative but illegal industry in the ...

Timothy Stryker was making his second visit to Svalbard, a Norwegian island chain nudged up against the North Pole, but the yield signs still caught his attention: They directed drivers to defer not ...

Now in his 60s, former shopkeeper Shahaz Uddin has been looking forward to becoming another white-bearded grandfather enjoying retirement. But there’s a signal that may be complicated — a warning sign ...

The Trans-Alaska Pipeline is the biggest, baddest, most regulated pipeline in America. Four feet in diameter and 800 miles long, it has a surface area of 7 billion square inches — every single one of ...