On the US-Mexico border, learning to see environmental damage in one of the weirdest places in the world.
Borderland
In India’s Blue City, Miners are Environmentalists
It’s a cool morning in February in north-western India and we’re being guided through a brand new nature reserve on the outskirts of Jodhpur, a city of around a million inhabitants in the Thar Desert of Rajasthan. Sandstone is the dominant feature in this landscape so everything is overwhelmingly orange, except for the reserve’s thriving …
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How the Darkness Made the Ganges
In Varanasi, learning how environmentalists must navigate corruption and religion if they ever hope to clean the great, spiritually-pure Ganga.
The Tigers Are Back
In Ranthambore, India, stopping poaching and making it last.
The 10-Day Vipassana Diet
How hiking enlightenment trail helped me shed pounds of unwanted mental matter.
Walking on the Margin
We’re weekend walkers. We put our walking shoes on and catch the train out of the city with a thermos of tea and a baguette sticking out of one of our backpacks. We leave from one of the city’s five long-distance stations in shiny new suburban trains through a vast and tangled web of tracks. …
Stars, like salt. 