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For Wildlife, Disposable PPE Is Far From...

October 2, 2020

In October 2020, a walk through a New England park might lead you past a battalion of busy squirrels, a smattering of leaves just beginning to redden or yellow, and a trail of discarded, single-use masks. Public spaces today are littered with crumpled face coverings and tattered disposable gloves. The cast-offs look like limp, oversized confetti the morning after New Year’s. They’re leftovers of a long, agonizing affair that no one wanted to attend. After more than six months...

The Best-Kept Secret of a Phoenix Neighborhood...

October 2, 2020

Palm trees aren’t native to Arizona, but they grow in Phoenix, and in a neighborhood called Mountgrove, regal palms soar like nowhere else in the city. Thick-trunked, lavish silvery-green fronds floating in the desert breeze, they lean skyward above sleepy roads, green yards, and rooftops in vaguely military formation. In all, some 300 palms stand. They are date palms, and not just any date palm. This small suburban stretch is the nearly exclusive home of the Black Sphinx, a...

Calabacillas Arroyo Artificial Fossils in Albuquerque, New...

October 2, 2020

Created by artist Michael Wallace and a team of around 300 volunteers and school students, the artificial fossils of Calabacillas Arroyo is a large-scale art installation in Albuquerque. Inspired by the way that buried fossils serve as a timeline of natural history, it serves as an interpretive timeline of New Mexican history from the Precambrian era through the unknown tomorrow. The arroyo itself is an important flood-control structure that empties into the Rio Grande as well as a major...

Seashell Gallery in Lisbon, Portugal

October 2, 2020

The imposing bell towers of the Monastery of São Vicente de Fora can be seen from several vantage points around Lisbon. Known as a cultural and spiritual mecca in the Alfama neighborhood, the site attracts many visitors throughout the year. One of the monastery’s least promoted, but undeniably fascinating attractions is its collection of seashells from the shorelines and estuaries of Portugal. Chosen from the collection of Maria Cândida Consolado Macedo, former Director of the Malacology Department of the Portuguese...

It’s Fat Bear Week in Alaska, And...

October 2, 2020

This piece was originally published in The Guardian and appears here as part of our Climate Desk collaboration. Deep into a tumultuous and often harrowing year, it will be a relief to many that America has now finally arrived at a cherished annual highlight: Fat Bear Week. Voting has begun in perhaps this year’s most eagerly anticipated election, where members of the public pick their favorite of the fattened bears now waddling around the Brooks River in Katmai National...

The ‘Goodnight Moon’ House (Cobble Court) in...

October 2, 2020

The little wood-framed house and its idyllic garden look out of place in the Greenwich Village neighborhood of Manhattan. With lots of fascinating corners and angles, the two-story building is dwarfed by those surrounding it on Charles Street. It is one of the oldest homes in the Village, but it was not constructed there. The wee, white-clapboard home began life as a farmhouse on the Upper East Side. It earned the nickname Cobble Court because of the cobblestones that...

St. Petersburg Post Office in Saint Petersburg,...

October 2, 2020

Florida‘s love affair with Mediterranean Revival-style architecture is evident in buildings throughout the state. Several can be found in St. Petersburg and include buildings such as the Vinoy Hotel, The Princess Martha Hotel, St. Mary’s Church, and Comfort Station One. This style also extends to a post office located at the corner of 1st Ave North and 4th Street North. The post office has been a functional landmark in continuous operation since 1916. In 1975, it was added to...

Caldara di Manziana in Manziana, Italy

October 2, 2020

The Sabatino volcano is one of two volcanic complexes in the central Italian region of Lazio, the other is located in Alban Hills. Around 600,000 years ago, the Sabatino volcano occupied the entire region from the coast to Mount Soracte. This led to the formation of various craters, such as the lakes of Bracciano and Vico. There are0 also other traces of volcanic activity. One such example is the otherworldly landscape of the Caldara di Manziana, a small caldera...

The Zwinger Gardens in Olomouc, Czechia

October 2, 2020

The Zwinger Gardens were formed as a result of Olomouc‘s tumultuous past, in which religion, wars, and money all intertwined to create the foundation for this now beautiful location. The garden is often overlooked by tourists and even many locals. Across the garden, visitors will find various religious figures. The location also provides residents of Olomouc a place to reflect and feel secure, despite its association with a major war. During the mid-18th-century, the Seven Years’ War was tearing...

Cedar Bluff Reservoir in Ransom, Kansas

October 2, 2020

A hidden gem of geology nestled in the Smoky Hill River Valley, Cedar Bluff offers unparalleled views of the lake and surrounding countryside. It was formed by years of erosion along what was once the floor of the Great Interior Seaway, that once stretched from the Gulf of Mexico to the Arctic Circle. The sandy seafloor turned to limestone and has been eroded over the millennia by wind and water. Atop the bluff, visitors can see for miles in...

In Montana, Remote Fire Lookouts Keep a...

October 1, 2020

Low-hanging clouds occlude the mountains of nearby Glacier National Park as Leif Haugen drives his pickup truck down a rugged forest road in the predawn darkness. About 20 or so miles north of Polebridge, Montana, Haugen pulls over, lets his dog Ollie out, swings a pack on to his back, and starts hiking down an old logging road. A mile or so down, he spots a small pile of stones and turns into a thick forest for a 3.5-mile...

The Cider Makers Who Bury Their Booze

October 1, 2020

Don Whitaker, the Cider Maker at Castle Hill, strolls over a grassy knoll in one of Virginia’s oldest historical estates and approaches what looks to be a graveyard. The lower half of a huge, broken urn stands before the entrance of a roped-off gravel square surrounded by mature linden trees, sprawling fields, whitewashed horse fences, apple orchards, and a horizon of Blue Ridge Mountains. “One of the qvevri broke when we were getting them shipped across the Atlantic,” says...

The Holocaust-Surviving Violins That Were Quarantined Beneath...

October 1, 2020

In March 2020, as each hour brought updates on the spread of COVID-19 and the looming possibility of lockdown, a group of visitors with rather unfortunate timing appeared in Los Angeles. Dozens of violins from Israel, fresh off a run of concerts in San Francisco, had arrived in town for a series of events—events that were just about to be cancelled. So, like many musicians themselves, these instruments had to spend the next several months in quarantine, emerging only...

Linos tou Charilaou (Omodos Wine Press) in...

October 1, 2020

Cyprus has an ideal climate for growing grapes, which explains why winemaking is an art on this island. Omodos, a quaint village in the Troödos Mountains, is a fine example: In addition to its vineyards, it is also home to the Omodos Wine Press (Linos tou Charilaou), a stunning medieval artifact. Down the street from Timios Stavros Monastery is a small room filled with medieval winemaking paraphernalia such as vats, cauldrons, various tools, and, at the center, the impressive Omodos Wine...

Sons and Daughters of Deucalion and Pyrrha...

October 1, 2020

Originally designed to be the companion sculpture to The Fountain of Time in Chicago, Lorado Taft’s Fountain of Creation sculpture was never completed. Instead of the planned 38 figures, only four were finished. They were then given as a gift to the University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign by Mrs. Ada Taft in 1937. The statues depict the Greek myth of Deucalion and Pyrrha. As the story goes, Zeus wanted to end the Bronze Age with a flood. Prometheus was...

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