Issue 07

A Life Among
Sea Turtles

A couple dozen leatherback turtles on the sea shore in Maui. — **Maui, Hawaii** Since the 1990s, when laws were passed to prevent harassing sea turtles, green turtles now come ashore in increasing numbers to rest, ridding themselves of their cargo of encrusting invertebrates and seaweed by letting their shells dry out naturally.

↑ Maui, Hawaii Since the 1990s, when laws were passed to prevent harassing sea turtles, green turtles now come ashore in increasing numbers to rest, ridding themselves of their cargo of encrusting invertebrates and seaweed by letting their shells dry out naturally.

Visions of Sea Turtles

Words and Images by Tui De Roy

Tui De Roy is a photographer, naturalist, conservationist, and lifelong lover of the Galápagos Islands.

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Caribou just outside the Nunamiut Indigenous community. Community members say that over the last decade, the caribou have only come through in the spring and can no longer be found returning in the fall like they once did. The Western Arctic Herd was once the biggest caribou herd in the world, but now their status is critical. Since 2003, the herd has gone from 500,000 animals to fewer than 150,000, with a quarter of the losses happening in just the past three years.

The Cost of a Changing Arctic

Images by Katie Orlinsky, Interview by Miriam Stein Battles

Few photographers working today navigate the intersection of visual storytelling and science with as much clarity and conviction as Katie Orlinsky.

Upon my first visit to Ice Lake, I was inspired to capture the lake under moonlight, surrounded by stars and wildflowers. What the image can’t show is the eroded and illegal campsites that now ring the basin, one of the most documented cases of geotag-driven overuse in Colorado.

Responsibility in the Age of Digital Discovery

Words and Images by Matt Payne

On an ordinary July weekend morning in 2013, I hiked into Ice Lake Basin in Colorado and found myself completely alone.

Patterns of ash and mineral color mark the path of ancient lava flows, imprinting the floor of the Rift Valley with a fiery memory.

Harnessing Patterns for Conservation

Images by Jon McCormack, Interview by Andrew Todhunter

In the introduction to his forthcoming book, “Patterns: Art of the Natural World,” photographer and Apple VP Jon McCormack describes an approach to photography in which the form “becomes not an act of capture, but communion.”