The Lyme-disease infection rate is growing. So is the battle over how to treat it.

Why hundreds of Buddhist monks moved from Taiwan to Prince Edward Island, buying up thousands of acres of land in the process.

“When I look at Mr. McCreery’s boat… I know that life is wild, dangerous, beautiful.”

Among the Sasquatch-searchers.

Inside an animal-lover civil war.

An essay on raising birds.

The story behind the iconic photograph of the Holmes family, hiding in the water amidst violent Tasmanian bushfires.

On the media’s failure to cover climate change.

Life in Green Bank, West Virginia, a town without cell signals and a haven people with electromagnetic hypersensitivity (a disease that may or may not exist).

On the new science of collective behavior.

Three vignettes taking place in far northern reaches.

"In the crystalline quiet where no one watches an iceberg calved with the shrieks and growls of any birth. A part of her shivered then rumbled then slipped, splashed into the ocean to announce an arrival with ripples of frigid blue waves."

A visit to a Maine museum devoted to Bigfoot and other mythical creatures.

Searching for a mysterious whirpool on an obscure map.

Boys and girls showcase themselves on opposite sides of an anatomical river.

"It only takes a split second for all of my cells to light up with horror-shock, a split second before I start gagging. The river is full of thighs, pushing along like fish, huge as bass, moving downstream. The thighs bump up against each other, create awkward waves, a strange flood of lone limbs in water, it is a tide of skins."

A species of jellyfish that can transform itself back to a polyp at any time appears to debunk the most fundamental law of the natural world — you are born, and then you die.

In 1968, the author revisits remote British Columbia, which he traveled two years earlier.

The Ivory-Billed Woodpecker was extinct. Then it wasn’t. The story of an uncertain resurrection.

A profile of Reinhold Messner, the greatest mountain climber of all time.

Animal nature, human racism, and the future of zoos.

The future of homo sapiens.

On the moral behavior of animals.

How meteorologists are improving their predictive powers.

The day Hurricane Irene nearly drowned Prattsville, New York.

Father and son endure in a crab fishing village in the Pacific Northwest.

"One year I loved Robert Louis Stevenson, the next radio cars, and my father never caught up. Sometimes I wondered why he came home at all."