Lois Parshley

Biography

Lois Parshley’s reporting has been published in the New Yorker, the New York Times, Harper’s, the Atlantic, Granta, National Geographic, and Businessweek, among others. A former Knight-Wallace fellow and National Geographic explorer, her work has won numerous awards.

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REPORTING / Spring 2024

Unnatural Selection

By Lois Parshley ,  Illustration by Keith Negley

The outsized grandeur of the boreal can still appear so wild, so endless, it’s hard for newcomers to recognize the loss. Each generation’s perception of normal is molded by the environment they encounter, masking the gradual fade, a...

Illustration by Keith Negley
REPORTING / Fall 2021

Cold War, Hot Mess

By Lois Parshley ,  Photography by Sean McDermott

After decades of mismanaging its nuclear waste, the US Department of Energy wrestles with its toxic legacy.

Photography by Sean McDermott
ESSAYS

Backcountry Politics

By Lois Parshley
ESSAYS / Winter 2017

Here Be Dragons

By Lois Parshley

Finding the Blank Spaces in a Well-Mapped World

Photography by Lois Parshley