Somewhere over the open ocean right now, a bird no heavier than a handful of coins is flying thousands of miles to a forest it has never seen, guided by cues we still do not fully understand. Animal migration is supposed to be a tidy story about seasons, food, and breeding, yet the more ...
From lava-frozen forests buried under lakes to dunes that sing and stones that seem to walk on their own, the United States is threaded with geological oddities that look almost too strange to be real. Many of these places sit well outside the famous postcard circuits of Yellowstone or the Grand Canyon, quietly rewriting ...
Across North America, there are places where the ground glows, lakes vanish underground, and rocks seem to move on their own. These landscapes look like they belong in myth, yet they sit on real maps, often a day’s drive from crowded cities and familiar highways. Scientists have explanations for some of these sites, but ...
These most profound waters read like a ledger of ice, fire, and time. Carved by retreating glaciers, birthed by collapsing volcanoes, and scoured by ancient rivers, these lakes hold climate clues and ecological secrets far below the waves. Scientists turn to them not only for staggering depths but for the way they archive storms, wildfires, ...
