Mongolia’s nomads are settling in the city
Driven from the countryside by climate change-related storms and droughts, nomads are taking their gers to the city—and causing environmental problems in the process.
Mauro Morandi has lived on a deserted island for 29 years
The 79-year-old real-life Robinson Crusoe reflects on the rigors and rewards of a life of solitude.
Spotted invasion!
The spotted lanternfly is an invasive species slowly spreading across the Mid-Atlantic. This is what it’s like to live through an invasion.
In Western Alaska, home is disappearing beneath their feet
On the edge of the continent, climate change is threatening towns and a traditional way of life
Home is where you park it
Faced with a housing crisis, a group of RV dwellers found parking—and a community—in Berkeley. Then they were kicked out.
‘I’m still here’
Ernestine Harris fought the bank and the government for the right to stay in her Atlanta home. And she won.
The end of Mango House
Privately, I vowed to the trees, 'You are history. I will let nothing happen to you.' I was only lying to myself.
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The broken road to refuge
“That night they called and said: ‘We know where you live, and we’re coming to kill you.’” — Follow one asylee's journey from Honduras to the United States.
Inside Mumbai’s Slum Hotel
The one major problem, Sansi says, is the washroom. “It’s a communal toilet, which is used by around 150 residents of the slum."
The department of wandering bees
“We fool the bees to live in a place that’s not natural. We basically give them refurbished condos.”
One year after Hurricane Maria, Puerto Ricans search for promise on the mainland
'Before the hurricane, I would say we had a decent quality of life on the island. But now I'm like a stereotype. ... I'm more like a professional immigrant.'
In racially divided Chicago, ‘map twins’ break down barriers
Each meeting Tonika Lewis Johnson facilitates, each contrast of edifices and interview she films, is an intentional act on the long road to desegregation.
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The big potential of tiny homes
In St. Pete, Florida, diminutive houses are serving as a path back to society for both ex-felons and homeless vets.
Documentary: Condition Blue
306,000 people | 428 officers | 1 struggling city What is it like to police and be policed in one of California’s poorest cities with one of the nation’s highest crime rates?
A new generation of communes is evolving the way we live together
The 15 people who live here work jobs outside the house and share the cost of rent, but they aren’t just roommates. They’re participants in a small social experiment.
Married to the ‘stranger within your gates’
Building a strong, loving interfaith family in a world of prejudice is an upstream but rewarding journey
Home is a feeling that seeps beneath the skin
When photographers capture the meaning of home, it looks like taboo nudity, mysticism and a mattress loaded with rocks.
