Scientists predict Tangier Island could be uninhabitable within 25 years. This is the story of the people willing to go down with it.

The Charleston Gazette-Mail, known for its dogged accountability journalism, survived a merger and bankruptcy. Will it survive a new owner with ties to the very industries its reporters have been watchdogging?

Is the genetically engineered chestnut tree an act of ecological restoration or a threat to wild forests?

The author grew up drinking and bathing in the toxic waters around a military base in North Carolina. Thirty years later, she returns to investigate.

On the frontlines of extinction in the Gulf of California, where the vaquita faces its final days.

Culture profoundly shapes our ideas about mental illness, which is something psychologist Nev Jones knows all too well.

How a home-schooled teenager became an oxy kingpin.

In El Salvador, more and more young women are choosing—or being forced into—gang life.

A look back at the spill that launched a movement.

On the vexed territory between aquí and allá.

"These young men seem to have no conception of the consequences of allying yourself publicly with the far right, even before their hero gets accused of endorsing pedophilia in public. Yiannopoulos has been good to them. They’re having a great time. Over the course of a few hours, I find myself playing an awkward Wendy to these lackluster lost boys as I watch them wrestle with the moral challenge of actually goddamn growing up."

What increased tourism means for the people of the Northwest Passage.

An army vet vanishes in upstate New York.

Talking about hope and the environment with a photographer who takes pictures of birds killed by plastic.

On mirror-touch synethesia, the power (or curse) of knowing exactly how others feel.

A Kiwi entrepreneur is leading a revolution in recreational drugs: he’s trying to make them safe.

How mental illness reshapes a marriage.

Save the honeybee, sterilize the earth.

The belief that hidden memories can be “recovered” in therapy has been discredited, but the mental health establishment does not always learn from its mistakes—and families are still paying the price.

Women who kill their newborns usually claim to have been in denial about their pregnancies. Can you carry a child to term without realizing it?

The author’s long-running relationship with the grotesque.

Kim Goodsell had a pair of rare diseases. Doctors didn’t have the time to look for a link. So she taught herself genetics and found it herself.

A tenth of Kannapolis, North Carolina, residents were laid off after the local textile mill closed. A billionaire bought the mill and turned it into a mecca for biotechnology and life sciences research. Now many residents are human research subjects.

Untangling the legend of “Knausgaard-free days.”

A profile of anthropologist Nancy Scheper-Hughes, who has spent her career uncovering a hidden global market in human flesh.