Lands & Waters

The unicorns of the sea are threatened by rising water temperatures

U.S. coal-fired power plants pump more than 48 tons of mercury into the air each year

A Great Plains native finds his way home

How the Sierra Club's 1960s lawsuit stopped Disney from turning Mineral King into a ski resort

We're still killing the creatures with the biggest brains on the planet—to make dog food

This is a water planet. Seen from space, the whole sphere glows blue.

Preserving the ocean’s bounty by eating wisely

By the shores of Gitche Gumee, the Pictured Rocks hang over the world’s largest, and perhaps most capricious, freshwater lake

Grow up, go wild, get married, settle down: However you change, the mountains will welcome you home

In a parched corner of the driest state, Pyramid Lake seems misplaced