A cave in Russia, a long-lost tip of a pinkie bone, and the discovery of a new kind of human being.

What went wrong when a group of canyoneers was caught by a flash flood in Zion National Park.

On the dangerous glut of visitors looking to conquer Mt. Everest, where there is sometimes a two-hour wait to climb the Hillary Step.

“The Anonymous mystique had allowed a group of incompetents to hijack, then discredit, an important grassroots movement in the eyes of national media.”

On Astana, the grandiose new capital that Kazakhstan built on the site of a remote Tsarist fort, and its striving young inhabitants.

After two people are found dead in Yellowstone National Park, a team of investigators tracks down the unlikely culprit: a grizzly bear.

Scenario-based forecasts on the future of America, in the style of the C.I.A’s National Intelligence Estimate.

A (graphically) detailed account of a bear’s attack on a father and daughter hiking in Glacier National Park.

Last week, as America’s top national security experts convened in Aspen, a strangely inquisitive Uber driver showed up, too.

On the conspiracy-theorist occupiers at the Malheur National Wildlife Refuge and how they’re fighting against their own best interests.

What’s at stake in the fight over development in the Arctic National Wildlife Refuge? A caribou herd, and a culture that relies on it.

The unlikely rise of the 1983 national croquet champions.

Today, Robert Dowlut is the National Rifle Association’s top lawyer. Fifty years ago, he was convicted of murdering a woman with a handgun.

A profile of Ken Feinberg, lawyer who specializes in determining compensation after tragedies and disasters.

How a Peace Corps volunteer turned a high school basketball squad into Afghanistan’s national team.

Ed Rosenthal recounts the six days he got lost in Joshua Tree National Park.

Renovating often involves additional, unforseen costs, but for one Toronto couple it ends in divorce – and death.

An athlete without arms or legs tries to get a spot on a the national wheelchair rugby team.

The battle to contain the Asian tiger mosquito–one suburban, above-ground pool at a time.

On the golden anniversary of her first trip to study chimps, an ode to Jane Goodall.

The story of two weeks when the most wanted man in the world was hidden in the depths of a Hong Kong slum.

When the best three months of your life are “called three of the uglier months in the recent history of the National Football League.”

A writer embarks on a seven-year trek from Africa to Tierra Del Fuego.

When they go to bed tonight, white people will be five times likelier to get a good night’s sleep than African-Americans.