The vast wooded wilderness doesn't look the England. Exploring Northumberland’s Kielder Forest. England's largest forest has an aura reminiscent of parts of Canada or Finland. Article Courtesy: The Guardian
JONO ALLEN, AUSTRALIA - GOLD WINNER / GRAND PRIZE OF WORLD NATURE PHOTOGRAPHER OF THE YEAR
Vava’u, Tonga, this rare white humpback calf - named Mãhina, meaning “moon” in Tongan - is a living reminder of what is possible when conservation works - once on the brink, now rebounding.
The Diary of a Honey Bee, a new book by filmmaker Dennis Wells, (2015 film Secrets of the Hive) available from Smithsonian Books, explores honeybees as individuals through a synthesis of research, photographs and narrative storytelling Smithsonian Magazine
Getting caught in the rain can be fatal for bees since they breathe through tiny openings in their exoskeleton. Rudolf Diesel / Otaglichtmedia / Smithsonian Magazine
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A new book highlights the unique behaviors of each bee in a colony. Bees actually have four wings. However, they interlock to form two large wings while flying. With their antennae, bees can perceive the scent of their peers, guiding them. Rudolf Diesel / Otaglichtmedia / Smithsonian
That’s your right completely
Being Human.
A volunteer holds two toads during her shift in Margecany, Slovakia, where teams help hundreds of amphibians to cross the busy road as they make their way to the Ružín water reservoir to breed : Photograph: Anadolu/Getty Images/Guardian
This Land Is Your Land" is a famous 1940 American folk song by Woody Guthrie. It celebrates the American landscape from California to the New York island while highlighting land for "you and me". It is a classic folk song often seen as an alternative national anthem (Google Overview)
Do what you can, with what you have, where you are ; Teddy Roosevelt
I’m from the UK and hoping the King has the decency to meet the victims when he visits. Values and decency and integrity and accountability is rare these days but not dead
17th Smithsonian Magazine Annual Photo Contest (The American Experience)
We're Not in Kansas Anymore
The Photographers daughter Chloe climbed atop a boulder at a Walker Canyon, admiring her first California super bloom.
#california #girl #poppies
Photo: Lake Elsinore: By Starla Little
“Let those who have weapons lay them down. Let those who have the power to unleash wars choose peace. Not a peace pursued by force, but through dialogue. Not with the desire to dominate the other, but to encounter them.” — Pope Leo XIV
Honeymoon Island Beach. A storm rolling through Honeymoon Island Florida
#beach #florida #storm #summer
Photo by Justin DeRosa / 23rd Annual Photo Contest / Smithsonian Magazine
In a first for small-brained animals, the study found that bumble bees can keep track of a beat even as it speeds up and down.
Picking up on rhythm was long thought to have been a skill exclusive to humans, birds and a few other mammals like chimpanzees. Smithsonian Magazine
17th Annual Smithsonian Magazine Photography Contest / Natural World / Bubble-net is a unique feeding technique employed by humpback whales swimming in a shrinking circle blowing bubbles below a school of fish, forcing them upward.
#antarctica
Photo By : Vadim Balakin
Very sad and very selfish very rich people
Gulf Harvest. The image transforms a typical maritime scene into a powerful study of silhouette, texture, and solitude against a vast indifferent sea
#fishing #florida #bedlingtonbeach
Photo; Christy Mandeville / 23rd Annual Smithsonian Photography Contest
Unemployed project - This position has been filled
Born from the sudden loss of my job, this series is a visual satire of the "phantom rituals" that persist after employment ends.
#france #hiding #lonely #visual
Photo by Eugénie Lafont (France) / 23rd Smithsonian Magazine Annual Photo Contest
23rd Smithsonian Magazine Annual Photography contest : People
“A young boy working as a shepherd, living a life that has never been easy for children like him.
#afghanistan
Photo : Reyhaneh Sadeghi
Braiding knowledge: how Indigenous expertise and western science are converging
Researchers are weaving Native practices with western methods to revive ecosystems and reclaim food sovereignty /Guardian.org
Early examples of Native American dice discovered in the United States (Robert Madden)
A study suggests that humans were playing with probability during the Ice Age—and that dice were invented 6,000 years earlier than previously thought
Smithsonian Magazine
Diffused morning light reflecting on the mud flats of Lake Clark National Park and Preserve. As a coastal brown bear forages. Gulls rely on the bears' foraging and powerful digging of razor clams for an easy source of food.
#alaska #beach
Photo : Deborah Russell / Smithsonian Magazine
A sarus crane parent shares an intimate and moving moment with its one-week-old chick. | Ponlawat Thaipinnarong (Thailand), courtesy Wildlife Photographer of the Year / PETA/Pixal
Love ❤️ Otters 🦦 Asian small-clawed otters groom each other at the London wetland centre in the UK capital
Photograph: Toby Melville/Reuters/ Guardian
Prayers during a service at the Sacred Heart Cathedral in Lahore, Pakistan
Photograph: KM Chaudary/AP/Guardian #goodFriday #easter
22nd Annual Smithsonian Magazine Photo Contest - The American Experience
Peter Gargagliano and Ben Stieler, members of the Bread & Puppet Theater, float in the Great Salt Lake on a day off from the national tour of their Apocalypse Defiance Circus.
Photograph by Garrett MacLean
A lone bison takes a walk near one of Yellowstone’s more than 500 active geysers. Picture courtesy of photographer Sahil Halim, Wyoming, 2025 / Smithsonian Magazine
