On the Afghanistan-Pakistan border, women express themselves through fierce short poems.

“As the world’s best-known oceanographer—Sylvia is to our era what Jacques Cousteau was to an earlier one—she feels a heavy responsibility. In her lifetime, she has seen the ocean damaged in ways humans never thought it could be. The ongoing disaster leaves her mournful, desolate, and sometimes scary to talk to. Since her first dive, in a sponge-diver’s helmet in a Florida river when she was 16, she has spent 7,000 hours, or the better part of a year, underwater.”

An ocean race from the Olympic Peninsula to Alaska, with no motors allowed.

On the troubled, legendary Deschutes River fly-fishing guide.

Twenty-five years later, the deaths of a couple on the Trail remain shocking – and mostly unexplained.

When deep sea diver Dave Shaw reached the bottom of Bushman’s Hole, he discovered the body of Deon Dreyer. Though Dreyer had been gone for 10 years, Shaw was determined to bring him back.

A vegan sets out to see if there’s an ethical, sustainable way to eat fish in 2015.

A BASE jumper emerges from a coma after a bad fall and sets about rebuilding his body and his life.

On being among giant reptiles with a parent you don’t understand.

On Juliana Buhring, a former cult member who became the first woman to bike around the world.

A rookie competes in the World Elephant Polo Championships.

Prospecting for gold is still a live trade in America, if you’re willing to walk deep into the desert with a hand-drawn map.

The scientists at Beyond Meat have concocted a plant-protein-based performance burger that delivers the juicy flavor and texture of beef with none of the dietary and environmental downsides.

An investigation into sexual abuse in youth sports, with a focus on USA Swimming.

The story of rivers and relationships.

How a surfing writer kidnapped by Somali pirates was freed.

Jamie Smith said he was a co-founder of Blackwater and a former CIA officer. He appeared on cable news as a counterterrorism expert and he received millions in goverment contracts to train personnel. The money was real. The resume wasn’t.

What it’s like to be struck by lightning.

Navigating the alligator-infested rivers of North Florida.

100 miles, 24 hours.

Father and son bond by hopping freight trains.

A flood-fueled adventure on a forgotten stretch of the Colorado.

When David Sneddon disappeared hiking around western China, officials chalked it up to a drowning. A decade later, it appears he had been kidnapped and taken to North Korea.

Deep in the jungle, the tourists were targetted, but only the porters were hacked by the machetes. Was it a robbery? Or a deeper pattern of violence amongst ancient tribes?

On the murder of a popular bar owner in a ghost town near the Mexican border.