Articles by Cara Giaimo

Candidates include a tunnel made of yews, the flaky-barked "Filo Tree," and a hawthorn planted on a giant's grave.

The vast majority are languishing in museum storage. Is it time to dig them up all over again?

It's filled with funny accounts from Ernest Shackleton's Nimrod expedition.

They've been trying to stop coal mining in Germany's Hambach Forest.

Go big or go home.

The salt-loving, tourist-stalking goats of Olympic National Park are moving out.

In the past, the appearance of these rocks has portended bad famines, good wine, or nothing at all.

And it’s all thanks to her peculiarly damaged bones.

Lessons from an avian surveillance project.

The southern summit of Kebnekaise was the highest point in Sweden. Then it melted.

Underwater combat dates back to the American Revolution.

How artists and curators are attempting to defamiliarize America's current economic era.

How old dung heaps become biodiversity hotspots.

Where have all the blue lakes gone?

Jo Mora poured the state's whole history—and his own life—into his incredibly detailed, whimsical maps.

An afternoon with Daniel Fireside, one of the Boston area's most dedicated drainspotters.

Beishan Broadcast Station, which once blasted propaganda across the ocean, has found another purpose.

Sometimes marimo float, and sometimes they sink. But why?

Logatham North Pillar Site is upending old assumptions about why people make monuments.

Inside the environmental protest sweeping Wyoming.

The polar exploration ship survived freezing, sinking, and seizure by creditors.

It's a slippery situation.

Its cultural meaning may be calcified—but off the page, it's changing fast.

Functional light bulbs, messages from the dead, and lots and lots of dentures.