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Cholos, Logan Heights, San Diego, 1980.
Posted inJuly 2024

The father of Chicano art photography

by Elizabeth Ferrer July 1, 2024July 1, 2024

Louis Carlos Bernal saw his role
as creating art of and for the people.

Dos Cholas, Tucson, Arizona, 1982.
Posted inIssues

La retrospectiva de Louis Carlos Bernal

by Elizabeth Ferrer July 1, 2024July 1, 2024

El primer gran estudio de la vida y el trabajo del “padre de la fotografía artística chicana”

Posted inArticles

Meet the tree-sitters who occupied a ponderosa pine

by Paul Robert Wolf Wilson and Erin X. Wong April 26, 2024August 8, 2024

The Oregon activists call attention to ongoing clearcuts in old-growth forests.

Posted inMarch 2024: Fertile Ground

An ode to lesbians who showed the way

by Morgan Lieberman and Emily Withnall March 1, 2024March 11, 2024

The photography series ‘Hidden Once, Hidden Twice’ highlights women who serve as a model for others.

Posted inArticles

Wild ice: A training ground for rural skaters

by Luna Anna Archey February 8, 2024April 24, 2024

On the Western Slope of Colorado, frozen reservoirs and rivers offer interesting terrain for skating.

Posted inJanuary 1, 2024: January 2024

An Alaska Native mutual aid network tackles the climate crisis

by Joaqlin Estus January 1, 2024January 31, 2024

The Smokehouse Collective invests in “our resilience as Native peoples to persevere in our cultures despite the global impacts we are facing.”

Infrastructure on the Akiuk side of Kasigluk, Alaska, is surrounded by water and vulnerable to flooding, permafrost thaw  and erosion.
Posted inNovember 1, 2023: November 1, 2023

Kasigluk endures the many challenges of thawing permafrost

by Katie Basile November 1, 2023January 24, 2024

Residents of the Alaska village maintain community in the face of climate change.

Posted inJune 1, 2023: Seen and Unseen

A refuge in the North Fork

by Trent Davis Bailey June 1, 2023January 24, 2024

Harvesting memories on Colorado’s Western Slope.

An aerial photo above Cave Creek, Arizona, from this April shows the proliferation of stinknet.
Posted inArticles

A weed is swallowing the Sonoran Desert

by Zach Duncan and Samuel Shaw May 9, 2023January 24, 2024

The invasive Stinknet plant fuels wildfires, irritates lungs and smothers native flora. ‘It’s everywhere’ and removal efforts in Arizona can’t keep up.

Fifteen teams take off at the start of the Bogus Creek 150 sled dog race in Bethel, Alaska. The race route runs roughly 75 miles up the Kuskokwim River to a checkpoint, where mushers take a mandatory four-hour rest before turning around and heading to the finish line.
Posted inApril 1, 2023: The Path Forward

A thriving community keeps mushing traditions alive in southwest Alaska

by Katie Basile and Laureli Ivanoff April 1, 2023January 24, 2024

Sled-dog race organizations and volunteers support mushers on the Kuskokwim River.

Posted inMarch 1, 2023: Moving Parts

‘Gold in the hills, but not for us’

by Tara Pixley and Vickie Vértiz March 1, 2023January 24, 2024

Scenes from California’s backyard petroculture.

Posted inJanuary 1, 2023: Ripple Effects

Can dam removal save the Snake River?

by Hayley Austin and Anna V. Smith January 1, 2023January 24, 2024

See the river as the climate changes, development continues and consequences grow with inaction.

Posted inArticles

Photos from the West, vast and varied

by Roberto “Bear” Guerra December 28, 2022January 24, 2024

Take a look back at some of the images that made up the region in 2022.

Posted inNovember 1, 2022: The Futures of Conservation

Carving a future for the Tongass National Forest

by Bethany Sonsini Goodrich November 1, 2022January 24, 2024

In Southeast Alaska, youth help manage a forest and protect an ancient art.

Posted inOctober 1, 2022: Making Refuge

Recollecting life on the edge of the prairie

by June T Sanders October 1, 2022January 24, 2024

Portraits of queer life and landscape in rural Washington.

Posted inArticles

Photos: The pride and pain of the UFW march

by Zaydee Sanchez September 9, 2022January 24, 2024

California farmworkers and their advocates walked 335 miles to the state’s capitol in support of voting protections.

Posted inArticles

See the LA River at a fragile crossroads

by Pablo Unzueta July 29, 2022January 24, 2024

Photographer Pablo Unzueta explores an urban river at peril and in constant flux.

Posted inJuly 1, 2022: Living with Rivers

The beauty buried in the data

by Daniel Coe July 1, 2022January 24, 2024

Art created using laser data reveals the history and geological wonder of Washington’s landscape and rivers.

Posted inJune 1, 2022: A Legacy of Weapons and War

As Lake Powell levels drop, see inside Glen Canyon Dam

by Luna Anna Archey June 16, 2022January 24, 2024

The hydropower plant that powers about a quarter of a million homes is run by a team of mechanics, electricians and more.

Posted inJune 1, 2022: A Legacy of Weapons and War

Witness to the Cold War in the desert

by Terry Tempest Williams June 1, 2022January 24, 2024

Terry Tempest Williams on Emmet Gowin’s unflinching photos of the Nevada Test Site.

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