The Great Pacific Garbage Patch may be the most misunderstood environmental subject there is, and the misunderstanding is remarkably specific. People do not merely have a vague sense of it;…
Some questions look simple and turn out to have no answer. How long is the coastline of Britain is one of them, and the discovery of why is one of…
A cave developed for visitors is called a show cave, and the good ones manage to be accessible without being diminished. These twelve have walkways, guides and lighting, and are…
The Icelandic landscape is one of the most photographed on Earth: black sand, green moss, waterfalls, glaciers, and a horizon that runs uninterrupted for miles. Part of what makes it…
Standing behind falling water is a truly strange sensation: the noise, the light coming through the curtain, the cold air pushed out by the fall. The geology that produces it…
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Look at a map of the Amazon and something is missing, though it takes a moment to notice. The river runs roughly 4,000 miles from the Andes to the…