Delving deep into an intricate web of unlikely heroes, power struggles, and living legends, Elephants in the Hourglass takes readers on an e

The January sun is weak by early afternoon. Grass, brittle and brown. Low-lying cactus punctuate the open area strewn with small rocks and a smattering of mesquite trees. Jake and his friends use an ATV to drive far from town along a well-used dirt road. “What’s the plan?” one of the guys in the backseat asks Jake. A slight pause. “Kill shit; get money.” Jake and his three buddies are participating in the West Texas Big Bobcat Contest. Over the next 23 hours, this foursome w

Our story begins at the foothills of eastern Himalaya, in a tightly packed landscape known as the “Chicken Neck of India’ where wild...

About where the forest roars: Midnight on the India-Nepal border. A full moon hides behind the clouds, no longer illuminating the wisp...

Most mornings, they meet in the forest as the night sounds wane and crows of roosters mark daybreak. The black sky becomes a tinted blue,...

Photographer Avijan Saha Has Devoted The Past Six Years To Documenting The Human-elephant Conflict Along The Mechi River Region In Northern

I’m Kathy Sullivan, the only person to have walked in space and gone to the deepest point in the ocean. I’m an explorer, and that doesn’t

The human-elephant connection in India has deep roots dating back thousands of years. One of the only cultures in the world to worship...

This spring, I worked as a writer and editor with National Geographic photographer,and co-founder of SeaLegacy, Cristina Mittermeier, on...