photo essay

Landing the winning photograph took detective work, patience, technical planning—and some agility, too

A new exhibit chronicles the environmental movement from the 1960s to today

In Northern Ireland, sparks between Catholics and Protestants are still everywhere, alight

’It’s like a fantasy world,’ says photographer Sarah Anne Johnson

Text and photographs by Quebec bureau chief Martin Patriquin

Flood for thought: The world’s poorest countries are suffering the outsize impact of climate change. Gideon Mendel provides a sea-level view

See why conservationists want protection for the Great Bear Sea, one of the world’s most spectacular marine biosystems

Blasted by 100 km/h winds and repeatedly knocked down, Dave Sandford kept coming back to Lake Erie

Steven Hirsch spent years capturing abstract images of Brooklyn’s toxic Gowanus Canal—tracing 146 years of industrial waste

With satellite images and photos taken by astronauts, NASA has released its own stunning version of the ABCs