August 2025 Issue

On the hunt for smugglers

Can CSI tactics stop a $23 billion poaching industry?

From DNA sequencing to fingerprint analysis, forensic scientists are using groundbreaking new tools to stop animal smugglers—one gorilla handprint at a time.

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A last glimpse inside the world’s vanishing cave societies

A last glimpse inside the world’s vanishing cave societies
A last glimpse inside the world’s vanishing cave societies

How to dig up 55 tons of dinosaur bones from the world’s fiercest desert

How to dig up 55 tons of dinosaur bones from the world’s fiercest desert
How to dig up 55 tons of dinosaur bones from the world’s fiercest desert

My night with the guerrilla balloonists of South Korea

My night with the guerrilla balloonists of South Korea
My night with the guerrilla balloonists of South Korea
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