Gallery: Sudan’s Civil War
A close look at the world’s largest humanitarian crisis
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Inside the Very Expensive, Extremely Overwhelming, Engineered Fun of Theme Parks
Roller coasters are bumping against the limits of physics and the human body to keep their riders entertained.
You Have No Idea How Hard It Is to Be a Reenactor
Benedict Arnold’s boot wouldn’t come off, and other hardships from my weekend in the Revolutionary War.
How the Most Remote Community in America Gets Its Mail
Transporting letters and packages to the village of Supai requires a feat of logistics, horsemanship, and carefully placed hooves.
The Mother Who Never Stopped Believing Her Son Was Still There
For decades, Eve Baer remained convinced that her son, unresponsive after a severe brain injury, was still conscious. Science eventually proved her right.
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Robert Rauschenberg’s Penchant for Invention and Spectacle
In 2007, he and Merce Cunningham put a new twist on a famous 1981 sculpture.
By the Horns
Miriam Cabas is one of Spain’s few female bullfighters. What does her success mean for bullfighting, and for Spain?
Edward Burtynsky’s Warning
What the photographer found in a tire pile in Modesto, California, and on the shores of Western Australia
What Lisette Model Saw in Jazz
Her portraits capture the joy and wariness of the genre’s luminaries.
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After the Floods: Recovery in Kentucky
Images from a region beset by record-setting floods, just starting the work of recovery
Photos of the Week: Nail House, Scorched Forest, Raging Bull
A lake dive in Bosnia, racing on the Senegal River, an earthquake in the Philippines, NASCAR in Pennsylvania, wildfires in Greece and France, and much more
Photos: Five Months of War in Ukraine
Images from the past month showing scenes from Kharkiv, Vinnytsia, Kyiv, Donetsk, Mariupol, and more
Scenes From California’s Fast-Moving Oak Fire
Images from California’s biggest wildfire this year
Photos of the Week: Swan Upping, Worm Charming, Living Bridge
A bird market in Afghanistan, wildfires in several European countries, heavy snow in Argentina, a huge water fight in Spain, an abandoned theme park in Turkey, and much more
Photos: The U.K. Reaches Its Highest Temperature Ever
Images of some of the effects of this heat wave, and some of the ways people are coping with it
Wildfires Rage Across Southwestern Europe
Dozens of wildfires have broken out across Portugal, Spain, France, and other Southern European countries amid a deadly heat wave.
Photos of the Week: Elephant Rescue, Buck Moon, Love Parade
Severe flooding in western Virginia, anti-government protests in Sri Lanka, a massive bonfire in Northern Ireland, the first images from the James Webb Space Telescope, and much more
Selections From the Audubon Photography Awards Top 100
Some of the top-ranked images from this year’s competition
First Images From the James Webb Space Telescope
Yesterday, the world got a glimpse of the incredible detail JWST can see, and today, NASA released more initial images, depicting a stellar nursery, an exoplanet, a planetary nebula, and a quintet of galaxies.