stave churches
To Save Norway's Stave Churches, Conservators Had to Relearn a Lost Art
The iconic wooden buildings require ancient weatherproofing technology.
stave churches
The iconic wooden buildings require ancient weatherproofing technology.
treehouses
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caffeine
Beans roasted on reservations are coming to your cup.
superstitions
Understanding how locals really view the world's weirdest primate may be key to protecting it.
wildlife
The winners of the 2020 World Nature Photography Awards have an eye for the sublime.
swimming pools
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cold war
The Finnish capital's city-within-a-city has a church, a hockey rink, and stockpiles of life-saving supplies.
garbage
Mariah Reading canvasses national parks and turns hubcaps, pants, and more into works of art.
floods
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writers
Busting sexist myths about a famous poet, one tweet at a time.
vegetables
These seed savers are preserving and celebrating the enormous genetic diversity of collard greens.
craters
There's no punchline, this massive geological structure in Greenland just probably isn't a crater.
burning questions
And why does it need to "snap"?
taxes
The Furusato Nozei program deals with the downsides of urbanization.
dissection
In 19th-century Philadelphia, an anatomist dissected and mounted a human nervous system. Now researchers are trying to figure out whose remains are stretched out in a glass case.
celebrity
Join us for a daily celebration of the world’s most wondrous, unexpected, even strange places.
winter
Cultivating an impressive swath of climbable ice calls for maintaining water pipes and attacking "daggers."
unesco
The iconic Italian landscape suffered decades of neglect, but a tragedy spurred locals to action.