An anthropologist unwinds the complex threads of forest conservation, revealing how Rwanda’s Gishwati Forest has emerged as a place of hope after decades of turmoil.

A system of heritage ownership by the Ifugao people has helped revive Indigenous traditions and even fight the COVID-19 pandemic.

In Papua New Guinea, Indigenous peoples have been interpreting their ancestral landscapes for generations.

Controversial new archaeological research casts doubt on a classic theory of this famous island’s societal collapse.

Community activists are using creative methods to revive endangered languages and reawaken dormant ones.

In an Indigenous community in Peru, a girl’s first menstruation is accompanied by a “boot camp” during which she’s trained in how to be a woman—but that tradition is ebbing away.

An archaeologist who has studied the charred remains of historic people’s lives reflects on what the past can tell us about disasters and climate change.

For millennia, Homo sapiens have looked up at the stars—but only recently have we started to consider what it will be like to live among them.

What can squatting—occupying otherwise unoccupied buildings without any title, right, or payment—teach us about how cities work?

Chestnut trees provide a key insight into how people can prepare for the storms that are growing increasingly destructive as a result of climate change.