The environment’s chaotic transformation is damaging many of our favorite places—and causing a shared ‘homesickness’. A stretch of the Chukchi Sea, between Russia and Alaska, in summer. The average ...

National Geographic was founded in 1888 with a mission to inspire curiosity in our readers and help them better understand the world around them. That mission continues today, through the eyes and ...

The lawn: verdant, lush, and neatly trimmed, a marker of status and belonging, and—as a seemingly essential complement to the modern home—a symbol of the American Dream. But it is also, increasingly, ...

Learn to embrace both the visual and functional aspects of your garden to support diversity in your plantings. Rudbeckia hirta is a seasonal headliner in a dry meadow designed by Kelly D. Norris, ...

Janice Farver is a painter living in New Windsor. Farver drew horses when she was a child. She got drawing books and studied them. She studied under Richard Owens, the art teacher at South Carroll ...

Peter Morics is a list writer from the United States. He has been writing about video games for five years. He started out as a news writer, covering some of the biggest moments in the industry, but ...

Teresita Fernández, Fire (America) 3, 2016; Glazed ceramic, 72 × 144 × 1 1/4 in. (182.9 × 365.8 × 3.2 cm). Whitney Museum of American Art, New York; purchased with funds from the Painting and ...

Freeway Park / Lawrence Halprin. Image via Seattle Municipal Archives from Seattle, WA - Seattle Municipal Archives, via Wikipedia under CC BY 2.0 This simplicity and minimalism inspired by the clean ...

The nonprofit group Wild Ones offers a free library of designs, with plants specific to your area — and you don’t have to be a member to use it. By Margaret Roach Turning your front yard into ...