One microscopic virus can paralyze much of the world. But even in quarantine, one person has the ability to make a world of positive difference for others. Award-winning National Geographic photographer Ami Vitale attests to the power of one individual to do good. As...
Earth is a blue marble because over 70% of the planet is covered in oceans. Oceans sustain life as we know it, drive the world’s climate patterns, provide humans with natural resources and shaping many of nature’s most magnificent wonders. Yet, human activity is...
When dark clouds roll into the middle of America every spring and summer, photographer Mike Olbinski, unlike most people, runs toward the mayhem. Braving hellish hail storms, high winds, torrential rain and the threat of tornadoes overwhelming him, and armed with...
In a grassy clearing on the outskirts of Vienna, Austria, a place that tends to be known more for music and art more than nature, Dutch wildlife photographer Dick van Duijn found a natural world in miniature that often goes unnoticed right near our feet. Laying among...
In the extreme cold, high winds, and blinding white landscape of the Arctic, Daisy Gilardini, a Swiss photographer living in British Columbia, Canada, and her team approached a polar bear family’s day den from a vehicle. The polar bear family seemed to have chosen...
The mountains in the background, gray rock dressed in patches of snow, glow golden from the angled sun. The sea, dotted with a few ice floes, is mostly clear with slight tints reflecting the mountains above. On top of one of the ice, stand a polar bear, its fur...
In the middle of the Caribbean sits an archipelago of islands lined with sandy beaches, palm trees and turquoise seas. Centuries ago, the Taino natives who lived there called it Boriken, meaning “land of the Valiant Lord,” according to the Manataka American Indian...
Walking on the campus of Stanford University, you might spot Michael McFaul in one of its Romanesque buildings or somewhere along one of its well-curated paths. At Stanford, he is a professor of political science and a senior fellow at both the Freeman Institute for...
Certainly on the minds of many Americans is the presidential election, with over 20 Democrats vying to make Trump a one-term president. While this part of the news cycle is important nationally, the fact that the spotlight is on the presidential candidates makes it...
The day is gray and foggy deep in the forest-covered hills surrounding the China Conservation and Research Center for the Giant Panda in Sichuan, China. The bamboo in these picturesque forests grows abundantly in a lush shade of green. Look deep below the misty...
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