Lilliana Molina

“Bycatch is a word invented by the fishing industry to avoid responsibility,” Randall Arauz, Costa Rican environmentalist.
Five hours off the coast of Golfito, a small fishing town in southwestern Costa Rica, hues of yellow and pink light up the sky. Crew members on the sportsfishing yacht, The Thumper, battle the urge to not sleep as they know that dawn is the optimal time to capture hammerhead sharks. 
“Tiburon martillo!” “Es un tiburón martillo!” yelled captain Bobby McGuiness-Guevara from th...

Junior Andrew Kochman has $1,350 sitting in his fridge. Every Tuesday, before he goes to bed, Kochman opens the fridge door and on the side finds his Wegovy shot, a weight loss medication. He lifts his shirt, injects the medication into his torso, and then discards the shot. He will repeat the same procedure next week.
Kochman is 20 years old and has been on Wegovy for about a year and a half.


“I was inspired by seeing all the stuff online about...

Ira Poston begins his day on his farm at 8 a.m. He turns on his green John Deere truck and drives from his house to his farm property. In the back of his vehicle is a paint bucket filled to the brim with wood scraps and wilted leaves. Next to it is a battered and soot-stained bee smoker.
He has three horses and 20 chickens. 


But what keeps him outside for so long are the over 70 bee colonies on his property, which includes Smith Farms in Gibsonvi...

When Neil Bromilow moved to Gibsonville in 1995, one early morning his wife and he drove through downtown Gibsonville and thought it looked “sketchy” and “tired.” 
“It looks like a place you wouldn't want to go,” Bromilow said. 


It wasn’t until 2005, when he got appointed onto the Board of Aldermen and then chairman of Downtown Gibsonville Revitalization Commission, that a downtown makeover went into effect. For the next six months, he and fourte...

Samuel Merritt’s great-great grandfather, Wyatt Outlaw, was lynched on Feb. 26, 1870. Outlaw was dragged out of his home in the middle of the night and hanged on an Elm tree in the corner of downtown Graham, North Carolina. His body is nowhere to be found, and for a long time his legacy was hidden within the Outlaw family. 
“There was some general conversation around the dinner table regarding Wyatt, but nothing in-depth,” Merritt said. 
It wasn’t until th...