A 2023 commemorative stamp from Serbia’s postal service showing Milutin Milanković alongside illustrations of some of his scientific work. Posta Srbije Milutin Milanković, a 35-year-old Serbian scientist, was honeymooning in his
Photographs by Ed Kashi Text by Julie Winokur Jane Gilbert has one foot submerged in mud as she lowers a small cypress tree into the ground. Sweat seeps through her
By Jay Cheshes Photographs by Claudio Contreras Koob The village of Santa Catarina Minas, a 25-mile drive south from the city of Oaxaca, in southern Mexico, doesn’t look like much.
Biocrust in Utah Nihonjoe via Wikipedia under CC By-SA 3.0 Under the dry, piercing heat of the Utah sun, Sasha Reed is growing plots of plants—and bacteria, lichen and fungi,
Intense flooding continued on August 7, after the sudden draining of a glacial lake near the Mendenhall River in Juneau, Alaska. Rich Ross Around 3:30 in the morning on August
This fossil palm leaf (Sabalites sp.) found in Alaska can be seen in the Smithsonian’s National Museum of Natural History. Sixty million years ago, dense, wet forests covered North America,