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What an Iceberg Looks Like From Underneath
Tobias Friedrich cut a hole in a frozen Greenland fjord and dove under it to photograph the part of an…
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Fog Moves Like the Ocean Over Marin, If You Leave the Shutter Open
Nick Steinberg has climbed Mount Tamalpais hundreds of times to photograph fog pouring over the hills like surf.
Space
The Night a Green Meteor Seemed to Fall Into Mount Merapi
Gunarto Song had his shutter open for four seconds when a meteor lined up with the mouth of Indonesia's most…
History
A Farmer Found a Sack of Seeds in His Attic. They Grew Into Miracle Wheat
An Italian farmer planted a forgotten sack of seeds on a hunch and grew six-foot wheat with seven ears on…
The Christmas Cactus Grows on Trees, in the Clouds
It isn't from the desert, it blooms on darkness, not dates, and most of the ones for sale are really…
Science
Out of the Blue
Blue is the world's favorite color and one of the hardest to make. We sorted seventeen years of stories by…
Culture
Welcome to the Dark Half of the Year
Tonight starts the darker half of the year, so we turned off the lights and pulled sixteen of our darkest,…
Travel
The Land of Standing-Up Rocks, America’s Newest National Park
Chiricahua, a canyon country of balanced rocks and rhyolite spires in southeastern Arizona, just became America's 64th national park.
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How Drones Are Reseeding Canada’s Wildfire-Scarred Forests
In northern Quebec, drones fire seed pods into burned ground. The seeds inside were picked by hand at thirty below.
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The Year Every Oak Drops Its Acorns at Once
Some years an oak drops a handful of acorns. Other years it drops thousands, and so does every oak for hundreds of miles. Nobody is quite…
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The World’s Most Astonishing Natural Wonders
Glowing bays, ancient trees, deserts that bloom overnight: a curated guide to the natural wonders that make the planet feel newly strange.
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Impressive Thunderstorm Photography by Mike Olbinski
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Iceland’s Stunning Textures From the Air
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Meditative Landscapes by Samir Belhamra
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