Environment

Photos of the outdoors and wildlife captured by our readers.

Willie Stewart had no business kayaking the Colorado River with a prosthetic arm. But he went for it anyway.

Todd Hardwick grew up loving alligators. But when one snagged him in a death roll, he knew what he had to do.

Hailstones pelted the plane. It lurched out of control. Then passengers saw the treetops.

At the tip of a barrier island above the Arctic Circle, a village is melting into the sea. What one town's struggle for survival means for us all.

A year after Katrina, Reader's Digest returns to New Orleans to see how one neighborhood is coming back to life.

How one teacher and 900 students discovered the joy of helping a village halfway around the globe.

Sometimes you really need to reward yourself.

The earthquake that struck last year left Kashmir looking like Hiroshima after the bomb. Then a team of U.S. doctors came to help.

Are we protecting nature or ruining lives?