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How to Help
Learn how small groups are doing big things to combat the illegal ivory trade—and how you can help them.
Big Fish, Little Fish
Photographer Brian Skerry has a close encounter with a whale shark.
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Features
Ivory Worship
Ivory Worship
Thousands of elephants die each year so that their tusks can be carved into religious objects.
The Glory of Leaves
Sleek or prickly, waxy or spiny, green or silvery white ... why do they look the way they do?
The Sky Caves of Nepal
Explorers scramble up cliffs to find out who created these ancient dwellings.
Interactives
Elephant Ivory Poaching
Elephant Ivory Poaching
See where elephants are losing ground—and where smuggled ivory goes.
Pine Ridge Community Storytelling Project
Life on Pine Ridge Indian Reservation, in the residents’ own unedited words.
Starting From Ground Zero
Ten years after 9/11, how have the survivors healed—and what wounds still remain?
Photography
Visions of Earth
Visions of Earth
Browse through visions of the world as seen through photographers’ eyes.
Flashback: Insides Out
A kitten demonstrates the seaworthiness of a giant water lily in a 1935 photo by Alfred T. Palmer.
Weekly Wrapper
Wrap your desktop in the top-rated images from the Daily Dozen.
Video
Elephants in Crisis
Elephants in Crisis
Reporter Bryan Christy discovers how religion plays a role in the problem of ivory trafficking.
Yemeni Youth
Muhammad Mustafa al Ogape spends time with his friends beat boxing and break-dancing in Sanaa, Yemen.
How Were the Moai Moved?
See some of the theories about how Eastern Islanders moved the giant Moai statues.
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Highlights
Jigsaw Puzzle Generator
Jigsaw Puzzle Generator
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Visions of Earth
Visions of Earth
Wallpaper
Wallpaper
Archives
Archives
Flashback
Flashback
Voting Machine
Voting Machine
On Everest
On Everest