A poet-anthropologist witnesses people of the African diaspora “riding waves across the surfable globe.”

Anthropologists are documenting how global warming is transforming Asia’s water tower and threatening the livelihoods of farmers and herders.

In the Indian Himalayas, elders see a link between the erosion of community and the erosion of ice.

SAPIENS poet-in-residence Justin D. Wright speaks to the elemental craft of Black survival, photosynthesis, and sweet tea making in an anti-Black racist society.

As erosion and rising waters threaten the Sundarbans, an anthropologist advocates for new, bottom-up approaches to living in a changing landscape.

For decades, the Mising people, a minority group in Northeast India, have fought for tribal autonomy and cultural recognition. Today they face growing challenges to their way of life.

A poet-anthropologist’s initial arrival in Guatemala decades ago yielded a new beginning—and a limitless illumination.

An anthropologist’s research on water insecurity reveals how clean water can reinforce a community’s physical and spiritual health.

An anthropologist’s extensive study of water scarcity in Mumbai reveals how such crises are often driven less by nature’s limits and more by human choices.

For thousands of years, humans have worked to control water. But how will the looming water crisis change our trajectory?