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an up-close portrait of a snow owl's face

Since 1981, One Man Has Relocated Nearly 1,000 Snowy Owls from Logan Airport

May 2, 2025

a group of Indigenous Papua New Guinean men with yellow facepaint and elaborate headdresses and regalia

Remarkable Photos by Cristina Mittermeier Spotlight the Need for Hope Amid Crisis

April 16, 2025

a detail of a composition of botanic motifs, human figures, and a fish made of cut paper on a dark blue background that has been painted onto a wall

Delicate Ecosystems Converge in Sonja Peterson’s Intricate Cut Paper Compositions

March 25, 2025

a grid of numerous vintage postcards of various landscapes with painted details over them that reference environmental disaster

Vintage Postcard Paintings by David Opdyke Demonstrate an Ecological Future in Peril

March 19, 2025

a photograph of a newly-discovered tiny lobster against a black background

Ocean Census Expeditions Discover More Than 800 New Marine Species

March 18, 2025

a cyanotype of a fragment of cloth resembling a botanical specimen, labeled "Gigartina sunday"

Mandy Barker’s Cyanotypes Revive a Pioneering Botanist’s Book to Warn About Synthetic Debris

March 18, 2025

a black-and-white photograph in the Jordanian desert of a group of people in black garments perched on a stack of boxes to create a monolith-like form

Nick Brandt’s Photos Stress the Resilience of Syrian Refugees in the Face of the Climate Crisis

March 5, 2025

a horizontal abstract painting of a landscape at night viewed through the windshield of a car, overlaid with an American Airlines passenger ticket

Paradise and Precarity Merge in Jessica Taylor Bellamy’s Paintings of Los Angeles Life

February 7, 2025

a vertical painting of a female figure seated centrally in the composition, looking to her right and observing a lily within a natural landscape

Elemental Shifts and Enigmatic Narratives Anchor Rupy C. Tut’s Mystical Paintings

February 3, 2025

a landscape painting of a late capitalistic world overrun with dinosaurs. decrepit billboards and advertisements stand in the background, against the burning glow of the sky

Dinosaurs Overrun a World Post Climate Disaster in Michael Kerbow’s Paintings

January 17, 2025

an aerial view of very long, narrow, undulating fields in rural Poland

George Steinmetz Journeys Around the World to Illuminate Where Food Comes From

December 18, 2024

Monarch butterflies fly through greenery, illuminated by the sun

Vital Impacts’ ‘Saving the Monarchs’ Campaign with Jaime Rojo Raises Funds for Conservation

December 12, 2024

a digitally created aerial composite image of numerous disused military airplanes, tanks, and other vehicles

Endless Fields of Detritus Blanket Cássio Vasconcellos’s Aerial Composites

November 12, 2024

a sculpture made from a vintage box with a decorator crab on top, collecting a string of pearls and surrounded by blue coral

Thriving Habitats by Stéphanie Kilgast Emerge from Plastic Bottles and Recycled Objects

October 23, 2024

a photograph of a person standing next to a motorbike, wearing a handmade costume made from white plastic yarn, with woven arms and legs and a torso-head design that resembles coral textures

Mulyana Transforms Plastic Yarn and Netting into Arresting Ocean Textures

October 16, 2024