Rivers choose their path based on erosion, a discovery that could transform flood planning and restoration
An example of Step-1 Image Preparation for the single-thread Purus River near Canutama (BR). A) NASA/USGS Landsat annual composite generated for the reach. B) Zoomed-in view of the annual composite along a riverbend. C) Binary masks of the river for...
What Happens After A.I. Destroys College Writing?
The New Yorker
The demise of the English paper will end a long intellectual tradition, but it’s also an opportunity to reëxamine the purpose of higher education.On a blustery spring Thursday, just after midterms, I went out for noodles with Alex and Eugene,...
What we can learn from the world’s vanishing cave dwellers
Nearly a decade ago, documentary photographer and National Geographic Explorer Tamara Merino was driving a camper van through the hot and seemingly desolate expanse of Australia’s Simpson Desert, when one of her tires blew out. The nearly 70,000 square miles of...
Washington’s Tree of Life Is Falling Down
In the middle of the night, as a particularly beastly winter storm batters the Washington coast, the Tree of Life will finally succumb. The winds will smack its stout branches until it finally collapses in a heap on the sand.Or...
The Mangrove Mothers
The Nature Conservancy
Dustin Solberg Writer/EditorWhen Zulfa Hassan goes to work, she carries the seedlings of a future forest. She plants the new trees one by one where a tropical mangrove forest once grew on Kenya’s Pate Island. It’s not hard to imagine that...
The Salmon on Your Plate Has a Troubling Cost. These Farms Offer Hope. (Published 2023)
A revolution in the way Americans eat salmon is quietly being fomented inside a former factory building on the industrial edges of Auburn, a small city in the Finger Lakes region of New York.At LocalCoho, one of the country’s few...
Inside a Woodland Home Built Over Water to Become One With Nature | Architectural Digest
