Ships float in Aasiaat’s harbor. Vaido Otsar via Wikipedia under CC By-SA 4.0 For the past four summers, a research team from Columbia University’s Lamont-Doherty Earth Observatory has loaded into
Along a gentle bend of the Los Angeles River, in a stretch of land called Taylor Yard, a sound like a high-pitched record scratch can just be heard above the
A sperm whale swims away, leaving a cloud of feces. Blue Planet Archive/Alamy In the 20th century, people’s demand for whale blubber and baleen drove industrial whalers to kill roughly
Nicole Hynson normally gets roped in to help when all else fails. The conservation biologist from the University of Hawaii is involved in bringing back all kinds of critically endangered
Photographs selected by Jeff Campagna Text by Tracy Scott Forson Few things add beauty to a landscape as effectively as high, cascading waterfalls. Lakes and rivers around the globe help
By Mark Schapiro Photographs by Simona Ghizzoni When Isabella Dalla Ragione assesses a Renaissance painting, she doesn’t immediately notice the brushstrokes or the magnificence of the imagery. The first thing she