In the rugged landscapes of the American Southwest, select cohorts of incarcerated people are temporarily allowed out of prison to fight wildfires. But are they being rehabilitated or exploited?

On Fiji’s islands, shifting sea levels have left a tangled legacy of conflict and survival. We should take note.

While most of New Orleans has recovered, disaster is a part of life for residents of the Lower 9th Ward.

In Nepal, the destruction that began with the 2015 earthquakes runs deeper than a building’s foundation. An anthropologist studies life behind the headlines.