Unblinking
Conservation photographer Cristina Mittermeier has a clear-eyed view of our environmental crisis and a hard-edged strategy for addressing it
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Mementoes Notes and Fragments
“` AJ 14 • Mementos, Notes, and Fragments Mementos, Notes, and Fragments Issue 14 01 On Your Mark, Get Set—Wait, Why Are We Racing When You Know I’ll Win? Evolution happens for practical reasons. The beaks of Darwin’s finches didn’t get longer because it was trending on social, but because that made it easier to … Read more
There’s a Superorganism Right Beneath Your Feet
Meet the strange, living crust that holds the desert together
Norse Saga
In the Faroe Islands, nothing is flat, the wind blows hard or not at all, and a human-powered crossing demands any means necessary
Portfolio: Against the Flow
A group of climbers travels to Japan’s tallest waterfall for initiation to the ancient practice of sawanobori
A Big Day in the Sky
New Hampshire’s Presidential Traverse holds the highest points in the East, all above treeline, and they’re spiced by the world’s worst weather
Recommended Reading
AJ 14 • Recommended Reading Recommended Reading An obscure ultrarunning legend, a Pulitzer-winning novel about trees, and the first Native American U.S. Poet Laureate By Emily White Issue 14 In Search of Al Howie Jared Beasley · Rocky Mountain Books · 2019 In 1991, wearing racing flats and little more than his signature lion’s mane … Read more
Man on a Mission
John Chau was an outdoor enthusiast and devout Christian who thought he could convert one of the world’s last uncontacted tribes. It did not end well
Moments: The Kinder Trespass
How a mass uprising of civil disobedience led to the establishment of the U.K.’s national parks and its nationwide right to roam policy
Who Owns the Copyright When a Monkey Takes a Selfie?
The idea that nature has legal standing is gaining acceptance, but in the real world of people and courts it can be one slippery banana peel