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At the Lion Habitat Ranch, Las Vegas’ famous show felines live out their twilight years.

From charging bears to glacier-carved valleys, photographs capture the real nature of the national park.

In California’s Mono Lake — whose alkaline waters are deadly to most insects — these diving flies don’t just survive; they thrive.

Photographs from Utah’s Monument Valley to the Petrified Forest.

The people affected by this timberland herbicide cocktail.

The river’s future may include longer droughts, larger floods and shrinking snowpack.

Readers’ and editors picks in people, landscape and wildlife.

Keeping a tradition alive in western New Mexico.

A photographer returns home to examine changes to the landscape.

Photographs of people and places in flux.

Armed militia members join a Nevada rancher to protest a cattle roundup from public land.

Photographs of last month's historic water pulses.

China banned West Coast shellfish after finding traces of toxins.

Photographs of isolation and community in Whittier, Alaska.

At least 20 animals were removed from the herd to let habitat recover.

Photographer Rebecca Drobis looks for universal images of youth on the Blackfeet Reservation in Montana.

Get a rare peek into what it's really like on the job.

Death and deportation at the US-Mexico border, and lives after crossings.

An Oregon artist reinterprets the region's timber wars.

At the Mars Desert Research Station near Hanksville, Utah, researchers consider the possibility of exploring the red planet.

Eirik Johnson explains his images documenting the lives and culture of itinerant mushroom hunters.
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