Twenty-Three Waterfall Scenes: Winter Ice and a Mineral Lookalike
A waterfall can wear a thick ice curtain while water continues moving out of sight. These photographs show the range of shapes that freezin...
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Twenty Cloud Photographs: Shapes, Light and Atmospheric Features
Cloud photographs reward a closer look at the lower surface as well as the outline. Rounded pouches, rolling waves and smooth layers can gi...
A Siberian Husky Disappears into an Autumn Leaf Pile
A pile of autumn leaves keeps swallowing and revealing the Siberian husky in Kent Petersen's short film. The dog supplies the movement,...
Helsinki Zoo’s Brown Bears Return to the Snow
A brown bear appears at a sheltered doorway; another photograph catches a bear rolling back into the snow. Helsinki Zoo's winter-emerge...
The Ilulissat Calving Sequence in Chasing Ice
Adam LeWinter and Jeff Orlowski filmed a major calving event near Ilulissat on May 28, 2008, later featured in Chasing Ice. The wide wall o...
Seven Mountain Pools and the Landscapes Around Them
An outdoor pool gives a mountain view a different foreground: still water and a clean edge against rugged terrain. This archive brings toge...
The 2013 Arctic Sea-Ice Rebound Was Not Global Cooling
Arctic summer sea ice covered more ocean in 2013 than during the exceptionally low 2012 season. That year-to-year increase did not reverse ...
Lake Hodgson: Microbial Evidence from Antarctic Sediments
Sediments from Lake Hodgson offered researchers a way to investigate life associated with a formerly subglacial Antarctic lake. The study e...
Ten Northern-Lights Regions: Geography, Darkness and Realistic Expectations
A northern-lights shortlist is most useful when it begins with darkness, cloud cover and the ability to wait. Latitude helps, but no destin...
Twenty-Five Ski Towns and Mountain Destinations Around the World
A memorable ski holiday depends on both the mountain and the place you return to afterwards. These twenty-five destinations span historic t...
Lenticular Clouds: How a Still Shape Can Contain Moving Air
A smooth lenticular cloud can appear to hover above a mountain like a carefully placed object. Its lens-like outline is distinctive, especi...
The President Sequoia in a 126-Frame Portrait
Michael “Nick” Nichols’s portrait of the President sequoia solves a photographic problem of scale. A giant tree is difficult to show in det...
Snow Around San Pedro de Atacama
Snow across the Atacama is surprising because dryness is such a strong part of the desert's identity. In this August 2013 report from n...