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A professional travel photographer shares tips and etiquette for documenting local culture in a respectful way.

In celebration of Women’s History Month, we went back in the AFAR archives to honor some of our best storytellers.

A writer and photographer share rarely told stories of Native American tribes from across the United States.

J.R. Harris is one of the most prolific solo hikers the world has ever seen. But he’d never tell you that himself.

Is it possible to curb climate change through travel? On a 10-day trip to Brazil’s endangered Atlantic Forest, writer Eric Weiner explores the tricky issue of volunteer vacations, one sapling at a time.

The airports in Hilo and Kona are open, but a portion of the Big Island’s southeastern corner remains inaccessible.

As the COVID-19 pandemic continues to unfold, the future of Africa’s natural landscapes—and the communities that coexist with them—are hanging in the balance. Here’s how your safari plays a role in the larger conservation story.

But not all carriers are in the clear.

Pioneering aviator Lilian Bland had built and flown her own plane before Amelia Earhart had even become a teenager. So why don’t more people know her name?

It may look like many of the other leather slides that seem to be everywhere these days, but the woven-leather bantu is actually deeply tied to a particular place in India—and is finally finding its place among some of the country’s more popular styles.

Airlines around the globe are rethinking flight attendant uniforms—the results are a sign of the times.

For the past two decades, the micronation of Westarctica has grown in prominence—and is now using its power for something other than Antarctic domination.

Bani Amor identifies outside of the conventional male/female binary, not exclusively aligning with one gender or another. Here’s how travel helped them find perspective on what it means to belong.

This Mexican eatery along the Riviera Maya is saving the reefs, one fish taco at a time.

For decades, some people have held fast to the belief that the hometown of the holiday icon is in northern Finland—not the North Pole.