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Take a Photo Tour Through Oregon’s Rugged Landscapes
Travel through Oregon’s scenic backcountry with our reader-submitted photos
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Why Does This Indonesian Volcano Burn Bright Blue?
Olivier Grunewald’s dramatic photos showcase blue flames—not blue lava—that result from burning sulfur
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The Beautiful Flight Paths of Fireflies
Flirting lightning bugs illuminate a dark forest with golden flight during mating season
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London-to-New York Passenger Captures Spectacular Northern Lights Timelapse Out Airplane Window
Being unable to sleep on a red-eye can have occasional advantages
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Bioluminescence: Light Is Much Better, Down Where It’s Wetter
From tracking a giant squid to decoding jellyfish alarms in the Gulf, a depth-defying scientist plunges under the sea
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Brian Skerry Has the World’s Best Job: Ocean Photographer
The freelancer’s new exhibit at the Natural History Museum captures the beauty, and fragility, of sea life
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The Best Wildlife Photographs of the Year
Over 48,000 photos were entered in the Veolia Environnement contest; these 10 were among the most stunning
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Winners of Nature’s Best Photography
Through January 2013, the Natural History Museum is home to stunning photographs of wildlife around the world
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The Breathtaking Surfing Photos Featured in Swell
A new book catalogues some of the best sites around the world to catch a wave with stunning photography
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Dazzling Photographs of Earth From Above
Satellite images of mountains, glaciers, deserts and other landscapes become incredible works of art
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Dams, irrigation and now climate change have drastically reduced the once-mighty river. Is it a sign of things to come?
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Africa’s wildebeest migration pits a million thundering animals against a gantlet of perils, even—some experts fear—climate change
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Descended from animals brought by Spanish conquistadors centuries ago, wild horses roam the West. But are they running out of room?
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From the Castle - FDR’s Stamps
FDR’s Stamps
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As a new book shows, not everything in the photographer’s philosophy was black and white
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A new photo exhibit featuring the work of biologist Mark Moffett reminds us that we still live in an age of discovery
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With his Botanica Magnifica, podiatrist-turned-photographer Jonathan Singer captures flowers on the grandest of scales
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On the life and career of the 19th-century American landscape photographer who captured Yosemite in stereo
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