Articles by Jessica Leigh Hester

A guide to scouting for humble treasures on the shore of the Thames.

"HeyJTree" is built like a dating site, but it matches readers with the charismatic, threatened plants.

Courtesy of the U.S. Forest Service's Fire Sciences Laboratory.

Welcome to the ancient woods of Cairo, New York.

If they're Norway spruce, that's just their nature.

When climate change comes for attractions like Victoria Falls, visitors can find new ways to appreciate them.

The impact of 14 months at the edge of the world.

North Dakota's corn fields will spend the winter under a snowy blanket.

When soldiers posed for portraits, they wanted to look their best.

Don't play in the bubbles.

These ecosystem engineers have a good track record in helping restore wetlands.

Archaeologists recently dug it up—but now they're putting an end to its brief affair with open air.

Formed by dripping water over thousands of years, the rocky formations point to ancient monsoons.

Researchers have found Pleistocene-era proof of a human, mammoth, and ground sloth trundling along.

Natural history collections are topping their specimens with replicas.

John Beasley Greene photographed early European archaeology in Egypt—but he paid little attention to those who lived there.

A Danish structure is the latest to evade erosion by migrating inland.

Welcome to the “throw zone.”

A photographer set out to document single-story buildings—the anti-skyscrapers.

A century-old iron scow is inching closer to the brink of Niagara Falls.

Here's how you ship the skeleton of long-dead megafauna across the Atlantic.

A Victorian storefront made famous in a 1967 painting is on the market—winter wonderland not included.

Ingredients often included molasses, caraway seeds, ginger, and grief.

The Nain Rouge has been stirring up trouble—and maybe generating some goodwill—for more than 300 years.