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Film
fromABC7 Los Angeles
1 day ago

Beyond breaking news: local reporter follows his passion for film making

Sean Au emphasizes the emotional connection movies create between characters and audiences, inspiring his journey as a filmmaker.
Renovation
fromwww.archdaily.com
6 hours ago

Itaipava Farm / Lucas Jimeno Dualde

Transforming an 80-year-old stable into a contemporary country house while preserving its geographical and historical identity is the main focus.
Arts
fromColossal
6 hours ago

A Delightful Short Film Highlights the Remarkable Self-Taught Art of George Voronovsky

Jonko Voronovsky transformed his Colony Hotel room into vibrant 'memoryscapes' reflecting his optimistic youth despite enduring significant hardships.
Agriculture
fromFast Company
1 day ago

New uses for traditional crops are increasing value per acre

Crops are increasingly designed to serve multiple markets simultaneously, enhancing value creation without requiring more land.
Television
fromThe Atlantic
2 days ago

Seven Documentaries for Fans of Fiction

Documentaries can effectively tell engaging stories, appealing even to those typically averse to the genre.
#photography
History
fromwww.theguardian.com
4 days ago

A story that needs to be told': the Manacillos festival of Colombia photo essay

Afro-Colombians celebrate the Manacillos festival to unite and resist economic instability and violence, preserving their ancestral heritage along the Yurumangui River.
Independent films
fromFilmmaker Magazine
5 days ago

"Personal Storytelling, Experimentation, and a DIY Spirit": A Look Inside LAFM 2026

This year's festival showcases debut features emphasizing personal storytelling and experimentation from both international and local filmmakers.
London
fromTime Out London
5 days ago

Why have more wild cows been released in south London?

Three Sussex cows were released into Tolworth Court Farm Fields as part of a rewilding project to restore natural habitats in southwest London.
#residential-architecture
fromwww.theguardian.com
1 week ago

Highland cows how these unlikely social media stars were forced into hiding

Highland cows are a tough and hardy breed known for their shaggy coat and upturned horns. They were brought in to restore and maintain the reserve through wild grazing.
Pets
Bicycling
fromBikerumor
2 weeks ago

Scott's New Film Reminds Us that Things May Change, But Mountain Biking Stays the Same

Three friends reconnect through mountain biking, exploring new places while reflecting on their past dreams and the enduring nature of their passion.
fromHigh Country News
1 week ago

How HCN is helping fill a growing need for local news - High Country News

More than a third of the nation's local newspapers have folded in the last 20 years, with the Western U.S. being especially hard-hit, including significant losses in Utah and New Mexico.
Media industry
Everyday cooking
fromwww.theguardian.com
3 weeks ago

I lost my love of cooking after 12 years as a chef. Moving to a pig farm restored it

The hospitality industry can be toxic, leading to burnout, but a love for food can inspire a return to passion and creativity.
Agriculture
fromModern Farmer
2 weeks ago

5 Ways Interseeding Can Change the Farming Landscape

Interseeding enhances crop output and sustainability by allowing multiple crops to grow simultaneously, benefiting both large and small farms.
London politics
fromwww.theguardian.com
3 weeks ago

Country diary: Return to bitey horse field' this time with a plan | Derek Niemann

A community in Somerset plants trees to create a woodland memorial for a young woman, transforming a former pasture into a shared natural space for future generations.
fromdesignboom | architecture & design magazine
4 weeks ago

vernacular bridge craftsmanship informs micro-museum set within bamboo grove in china

Baqiao bridges, including the nearby Shisanba Bridge, typically appear in areas where the difference between river level and embankment is relatively small. Their upstream piers are shaped like tapered spindles with slightly raised tips, creating a distinctive structural profile. Stone slabs span between the piers, forming a bridge deck assembled through interlocking construction methods.
Design
Photography
fromwww.bbc.com
2 weeks ago

In pictures: Playful lynx snatches top prize in photo competition

A young Iberian lynx won the Wildlife Photographer of the Year People's Choice Award 2026 for its playful behavior captured in a stunning image.
fromwww.theguardian.com
2 weeks ago

It helped me feed my six children': how Africa's first water fund supports farmers to protect Kenya's biggest river

The avocado seedlings enabled him to grow his farm income to close to 2m Kenyan shillings, with each mature avocado tree yielding 70kg annually. Improving farming methods and conserving the watershed has helped me to feed and educate my six children.
Agriculture
fromMail Online
1 month ago

Wildlife experts urge Brits to keep their distance from HIGHLAND COWS

Please do enjoy walking around the site, but just give them some space. We're asking people to remember that these are not pets - they are conservation grazers doing an important job. Jessica Allam, Senior Wilder Grazing Ranger at Kent Wildlife Trust, emphasizes the need for visitors to respect the animals' boundaries and understand their conservation role.
Environment
Marketing
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Film
fromEsquire
1 month ago

The Best Documentaries of 2026 (So Far)

A 1985 fan-made Star Trek film starring George Takei, lost for 40 years, has resurfaced, documenting early fandom culture before it became a mainstream commercial force.
Photography
fromBOOOOOOOM!
3 weeks ago

"Tree Work" by Photographer Reave Dennison

Photographer Reave Dennison documents maritime and forestry labour in British Columbia through silver gelatin prints and a new photography book featuring tugboat and logging work.
Agriculture
fromRealagriculture
3 weeks ago

Policy Brief: Agriculture R&D through a critical infrastructure lens

Canada's public agricultural research infrastructure has declined significantly, with reduced AAFC funding shifting away from essential research site operations and maintenance.
fromwww.theguardian.com
1 month ago

Women behind the lens: The women watched the fuel tanker advance with uncertainty and fear'

The Siekopai Nation, which has historically occupied territories along the northern border between Ecuador and Peru, was separated and displaced during the 1941 border war between the two countries, a conflict with consequences that extended into the 1990s. According to Justino Piaguaje, leader of the Siekopai in Ecuador, the nation's original population was close to 20,000 but diseases brought by colonisers, Jesuit missions, conditions of slavery during the rubber boom, and the impacts of the oil industry led to a drastic decline.
Environment
Non-profit organizations
fromHigh Country News
1 month ago

An ode to Johnny Sagebrush - High Country News

Bart Koehler exemplifies the endangered role of community-based wilderness organizers in the rural West, protecting millions of acres through decades of grassroots advocacy and face-to-face engagement.
World news
fromwww.theguardian.com
1 month ago

The week around the world in 20 pictures

Photographers documented the arrest of Andrew Mountbatten-Windsor, Ramadan in Gaza, Russian airstrikes in Odesa, and severe flooding in France.
Mindfulness
fromApartment Therapy
2 months ago

13 Creative Ways to Fill an Analog Bag if You Want to Stop Staring at Your Phone

An analog bag is a portable tote filled with tactile items to replace phone use, encourage hobbies, reduce doomscrolling, and provide relaxation and accomplishment.
fromwww.theguardian.com
2 months ago

The week around the world in 20 pictures

The brutal crackdown in Iran, ICE in Minneapolis, Russian aistrikes in Kyiv and heavy rain in Gaza the past seven days as captured by the world's leading photojournalists
World news
Science
fromFuturism
2 months ago

Scientists Suddenly Discover That Cow Tools Are Real

A cow spontaneously selected, adjusted, and used a broom handle to scratch itself, demonstrating tool use and suggesting cattle possess underestimated cognitive abilities.
US politics
fromFilmmaker Magazine
2 months ago

How Phone-Camera Verite Defeated Action-Flick Propaganda in the War to Define Minneapolis

Minneapolis residents document and resist an ongoing heavy ICE presence, using cellphone videos to expose operations while daily life and businesses are disrupted.
Travel
fromElite Traveler
1 month ago

A Guide to Agrotourism in Rural Spain

Spain's rural regions offer immersive agrotourism experiences combining hands-on farm activities, local food and wine, and traditional country accommodations.
fromPsychology Today
2 months ago

What Is Meat? It's Probably Not What You Thought

I'm thrilled I did, and my learning curve was vertical in this page-turning work that "offers a hopeful and rigorously researched exploration of how science, policy, and industry can work together to satisfy the world's soaring demand for meat, while building a healthier and more sustainable world." There is nothing "radical" about what likely will become a classic, one that is already endorsed by experts in global hunger, global health, climate change, and food security.
Food & drink
Public health
fromwww.theguardian.com
2 months ago

Where there's horse muck, there's brass | Letters

Dog feces present greater public health risks than horse manure because of higher pathogen and parasite loads, dietary effects, and longer infectious persistence.
World news
fromwww.theguardian.com
2 months ago

The week around the world in 20 pictures

Global photojournalists documented ICE operations, Russian airstrikes, protests in Greenland and Sakhnin, and the Africa Cup of Nations final in Rabat last week.
fromwww.aljazeera.com
2 months ago

The Unknown: A Filmmaker's Search for Lost Connections

Filmmaker Simplice Ganou, from Burkina Faso, spends his time documenting people and relationships, but when he travels to Winterthur, Switzerland, he faces a new challenge: nobody wants to talk to him.
Film
Bicycling
fromBikeMag
2 months ago

Made By Mountains: A Riding Film Worth Waiting For

Made By Mountains presents mountains as active forces that shape identity, community, perspective, and lifelong meaning through immersive, visual mountain-riding storytelling.
US politics
fromWIRED
2 months ago

How to Film ICE

Filming federal immigration agents is legal but can provoke dangerous, even lethal, responses; video both documents abuses and can place observers at risk.
fromwww.dw.com
2 months ago

Holy cow! Cattle may be a lot smarter than we thought

The 13-year-old Swiss Brown cow lives in the village of Notsch at the foot of the Carinthia mountains in southern Austria. She's kept as a pet by a local farmer, and can roam her meadow to her heart's delight. Like many other pets, she likes to have her back scratched. If no friendly humans are around to do the job, that's not a problem Veronika uses a brush or stick to do it herself.
Science
fromBuzzFeed
1 month ago

50 Historical Photos That Are So Shocking, They're Changing My Perception Of The Entire World

I recently gained a new obsession, and I'm ready to share it with the world: finding and analyzing rare vintage images. A picture speaks a thousand words, and these photographs tell us more about history than a textbook chapter ever could. So even if you think history is boring, I'm well-equipped to change your mind, and give you some delicious food for your brain to chew on today.
History
fromwww.theguardian.com
2 months ago

Humanity's favourite food': how to end the livestock industry but keep eating meat

For someone aiming to end the global livestock industry, Bruce Friedrich begins his new book called Meat in disarming fashion: I'm not here to tell anyone what to eat. You won't find vegetarian or vegan recipes in this book, and you won't find a single sentence attempting to convince you to eat differently. This book isn't about policing your plate.
Environment
Film
fromFilmmaker Magazine
2 months ago

"We Can Keep Living in a Glacial World": Sara Dosa on Time and Water

Time and Water is an elegiac documentary portraying receding glaciers through family archival footage, evoking awe and helplessness as ice becomes water.
Arts
fromHyperallergic
1 month ago

We Must Do More Than Simply Depict Our Lives

The Bronx Museum biennial spotlights representational works that center urban youth and marginalized identities, challenging mainstream narratives through sincere, everyday portrayals.
Environment
fromwww.theguardian.com
2 months ago

Pure apocalypse': a photographer's journey through the Pantanal wildfires

A documentary photographer documents catastrophic Pantanal and Amazon fires, chronicling environmental destruction, wildlife loss, and ongoing return visits to record the aftermath.
fromCN Traveller
1 month ago

How the British countryside became 2026's breakout onscreen star

"On that bleak hill-top the earth was hard with a black frost, and the air made me shiver through every limb," so wrote Emily Brontë. In a story studded with untameable lust, unbreakable love, fierce tempers and shocking acts of revenge, perhaps the most faithful aspect of Emerald Fennell's latest film, "Wuthering Heights", to its 1847 novel is the tempestuous depiction of the remote English countryside. The Yorkshire moors, to be exact.
Film
Environment
fromwww.mcall.com
2 months ago

Backyard vegetable gardens are healthy for people and the planet. Here's how to start yours

Backyard vegetable gardens reduce food-related emissions, improve soil and pollinator habitat, and boost physical, social, emotional, and nutritional health.
fromwww.theguardian.com
1 month ago

Ways to Traverse a Territory review documenting an ancient and disappearing way of life

Here dwells the indigenous Tzotzil community which has kept a pastoral way of life against the march of time. Apart from the odd forest ranger and passerby, Ruvalcaba's film focuses almost entirely on the Tzotzil women. Together, they tend herds of sheep which they still shear by hand, and use traditional tools for spinning yarns and natural dye for fabrics.
Film
fromInsideHook
2 months ago

An Essential Part of Farming Has Two Wings and a Beak

When you think of farming, what ingredients do you generally associate with a successful harvest? The basics certainly come to mind: fertile soil, plenty of sunlight and lots of water. But there are other variables that can also mean the difference between a crop of healthy fruits and vegetables and a large heap of organic waste. And it turns out that one of those variables is a very small hawk.
Agriculture
Photography
fromHigh Country News
1 month ago

The little-known photographer who documented a changing Okanogan, Washington - High Country News

Frank Matsura, a Japanese immigrant photographer in early 20th-century Okanogan County, produced personable black-and-white portraits that remain fondly remembered by local communities.
Film
fromThe Atlantic
1 month ago

Frederick Wiseman Always Made His Point

Frederick Wiseman transformed documentary cinema by exposing institutional operations and human consequences through observational films that revealed systemic failures and provoked censorship.
Agriculture
fromwww.theguardian.com
2 months ago

Solar grazing: triple-win' for sheep farmers, renewables and society or just a PR exercise for energy companies?

Free solar grazing on solar farms enables farmers to expand flocks, reduce land costs, and cut vegetation-management expenses significantly.
Photography
fromwww.theguardian.com
2 months ago

Waterfalls saved me': how photographing nature can heal the soul

John Arnison developed a distinctive nighttime waterfall photography style that sustained him emotionally and professionally over 25 years.
Film
fromwww.bbc.com
2 months ago

'A letter from Attenborough started my wildlife filming career'

Christian Marot overcame dyslexia and discouragement to become a professional wildlife camera operator, photographing urban nature, earning competition recognition and working with Sir David Attenborough.
Agriculture
fromAnimals Around The Globe
2 months ago

Why 19th-Century Farmers Painted Their Animals Larger Than Life

Nineteenth-century farmers used exaggerated livestock paintings as visual marketing to signal abundance, prestige, and profitability at agricultural fairs.
fromCN Traveller
2 months ago

7 new films that will inspire your travels in 2026, for the most awe-inspiring trips you can imagine

Ever since we first got wind of Emerald Fennell taking on this Emily Brontë classic, we've found ourselves thinking of visiting Yorkshire time and time again. The English county, with its vast misty moors, rolling hills and cutesy villages, is ripe for romantic trips and cosy, fireside staycations. Start planning your next escape with our guide to the best hotels in Yorkshire.
Film
Photography
fromwww.theguardian.com
2 months ago

Beautifully strange: Australian landscapes photographed from the sky in pictures

Andrew Vukosav flies solo in a Cessna 182 named Valerie with a belly-mounted high-resolution camera to capture remote landscapes that challenge outback clichés.
Agriculture
fromIndependent
2 months ago

'It's a kind of rock-star lifestyle... but I always loved farming': Why ex-pro surfer swapped chasing waves for regenerative farming

Fergal Smith left a professional surfing career to practice regenerative farming and train Ireland’s next generation of sustainable farmers on Moy Hill Farm.
Photography
fromdesignyoutrust.com
1 month ago

Stunning Digital Storytelling Landscapes By Prismofpixels, Turning Quiet Streets And Town Squares Into Cinematic Moments Of Color And Light

A curated collection of diverse visual works spanning paintings, photography, design, and historical images across eras, genres, and artistic mediums.
Film
fromVulture
2 months ago

The Best Parts of Period Dramas Are the Sheep

Sense and Sensibility uses abundant livestock imagery—especially sheep—to emphasize 19th-century British rural economics and Austen's themes linking love and money.
Agriculture
fromModern Farmer
2 months ago

Forest Farming: Why it Might Make Sense for Your Land - Modern Farmer

Agroforestry integrates small-scale farming with forestry to produce diverse crops, timber, and livestock benefits while working within existing forest ecosystems.
Photography
fromwww.eastbaytimes.com
1 month ago

Eye on the Hills: Photographer's work on Oakland-area wildlife lift spirits

Jim Roach shares wildlife photography on Nextdoor, uplifting neighbors and receiving rapid community support after a robbery while gaining widespread recognition.
fromwww.npr.org
1 month ago

Frederick Wiseman, who captured the weirdness and wonder of everyday life, dies at 96

I usually know nothing about the subject before I start,
Film
Photography
fromwww.theguardian.com
2 months ago

The last man left in a Moldovan village: Laetitia Vancon's best photograph

A 65-year-old man was the sole remaining resident of a depopulated Moldovan village, living a solitary, self-sufficient life after violent departures.
Film
from48 hills
2 months ago

Screen Grabs: Showings so rare it's like glimpsing a snow leopard - 48 hills

Two Bay Area retrospectives revive rarely screened experimental and independent films, featuring live appearances, lectures, and newly accessible programs.
Photography
fromHigh Country News
2 months ago

Ansel Adams in the age of ICE - High Country News

Ansel Adams photographed both industrial Los Angeles and incarcerated Japanese Americans at Manzanar, producing work he regarded as among his most important.
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