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WHAT’S COMING
Humanity in motion
BUILDING BUGS WITH BLOOMS • An artist uses natural materials to make lively and lifelike insect portraits.
THE BACKSTORY • NATURE ’ S COLORS AND SHAPES SPRING TO LIFE IN STUNNING INSECT SCULPTURES
We Are All Migrants • HUMANS ARE A MIGRATORY SPECIES, YET SOME WOULD DIVIDE US INTO TWO KINDS: THE MIGRANT AND THE NATIVE.
Things they carried
REDUCING PLASTIC WASTE FROM FOOD CONTAINERS
DISPATCHES FROM THE FRONT LINES OF SCIENCE AND INNOVATION
Preserving Meteorites for Study
PLANT’S POLLINATOR SECRETS REVEALED • MORE THAN ONE MOTH SERVES THIS RARE ORCHID
FROM TANK TO TABLE
A PRECARIOUS POINT OF VIEW • At an iconic climbing spot in Tasmania, a photographer waits for the perfect moment to fulfill a dream.
SHAPED TO CATCH A WAVE
Peace Like a River • A PHOTOGRAPHER WHO HAS PLUNGED INTO SOME OF AFRICA’S MOST TURBULENT ENVIRONMENTS FINDS SOLACE WHILE FLY-FISHING IN KENYA’S LUSH HIGHLANDS.
WALKING WITH MIGRANTS • TRACING HUMANKIND’ S JOURNEY FROM AFRICA, PAUL SALOPEK IS CHRONICLING A STORY FOR THE AGES: THE MASS MIGRATIONS IN WHICH MILLIONS OF PEOPLE ARE SEARCHING FOR A BETTER PLACE.
AMONG THE UPROOTED
MIGRATION WAVES
REFUGEES FROM THE START • AT THE WORLD’ S LARGE ST RE FUGE E CAMP, IN BANGLADE SH, DOZENS OF ROHINGYA BAB I E S ARE BORN EACH DAY WITH NO L EGAL CITIZENSHI P. WHAT DOE S THE FUTURE HOLD FOR THEM?
LEAVING AFRICA, FOR THE GAMBLE OF A LIFETIME • TENS OF THOUSANDS OF JOB-SEEKING AFRICANS JOURNEY TO EUROPE EACH YEAR. MANY WIND UP TRADING ONE HARDSHIP FOR ANOTHER.
THE LURE OF SPAIN
PORTRAITS FROM A BUSTLING BORDER • IN TIJUANA, NEAR THE WORLD’S BUSIEST LAND BORDER CROS SING, A PHOTOGRAPHER MAKES MEMORIES FOR MIGRANTS AND OTHERS PASSING BY.
WHO WERE THE FIRST EUROPEANS? • NEW GENETIC TESTING OF ANCIENT SETTLERS’ REMAINSIS REVEALING THAT EUROPE HAS LONG BEEN A MELTING POT, MADE UP OF IMMIGRANT BLOODLINES FROM AFRICA, THE MIDDLE EAST, AND THE GRASSY PLAINS OF TODAY’S RUSSIA.
PREHISTORIC MELTING POT
THE SURVIVORS • WOLVERINES, THE SMALL AND FIERCE CARNIVORES OF THE FAR NORTH, ARE BATTLING NEW THREATS AS WARMING SHRINKS THEIR TERRITORY.
REALM OF THE WOLVERINE • Trapping and human settlement have shrunk wolverines’ historic range. Dependent on vast home territories, they are scarce even in remote northern forests and tundra regions, their primary habitat.
LONDON RISING • AMID GROWING PAINS AND WITH BREXIT LOOMING, CAN THE PREEMINENT GLOBAL CITY STAY ON TOP?
BALANCING LONDON’S GROWTH
OLIVIER APICELLA • PHOTOS FROM OUR COMMUNITY