One day in September 2018, as Beth Pratt was hiking in California’s Yosemite National Park, she encountered pile after pile of fresh scat along a creek flowing out of Kuna Lake. She knew it was only a ...

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The first belonged to a long-crested eagle, the sitting female’s signature plumes fluttering in the heat haze. The next was a ...

Needless to say, Zhemgang is Bhutan's true eco-tourism capital, a district where 93.87 percent forest cover turns the landscape into a living, breathing wilderness.

Solomon’s Castle in Ona, Florida isn’t just unexpected – it’s a magnificent testament to what happens when imagination runs wild and conventional architecture takes a delightful holiday. Driving ...

That’s exactly what awaits at L.L. Stub Stewart State Park in Buxton, Oregon – a verdant paradise that somehow remains one of the state’s best-kept outdoor secrets.

A fine Christmas gift for the outdoors explorer on your list is "River to Ridge: Arkansas' Wildlife Management Areas," a ...

A global treaty has extended trade protections to more than 70 shark and ray species whose numbers are in sharp decline.

From poachers to politics, “Tigers Between Empires” details the 30-year-long international collaboration that set out to study and save Russia’s Siberian tigers.

A dimly lit workshop in Kozhikode. Forest officers in plain clothes wait outside as their informant signals with a quick flick of a handkerchief, the sign that the “goods” are inside. Moments later, ...

Together, these works exemplify why Smithsonian ’s picks for the best photography books of 2025 feel both reflective and forward-looking: they illuminate the beauty of the world, the rituals that bind ...