JEFFREYS BAY, EASTERN CAPE, SOUTH AFRICA – JULY 19: The lineup during the Quarterfinals at the Corona Open J-Bay on July 19, 2023 at Jeffreys Bay, Eastern Cape, South Africa. (Photo by Beatriz Ryder/World Surf League) The World Surf League (WSL) returns to South African shores for the Corona Cero OpenContinue Reading
New data shows the High Line provides a refuge up to 8 degrees cooler than nearby streets, helping mitigate heat waves driven by climate change Climate Central, in collaboration with Friends of the High Line, released new research today showing that the High Line’s trees and gardens significantly reduce the urbanContinue Reading
Photo by Alvaro Keding/© AMNH Works by Seven Artists of the Pacific Northwest Celebrate Blending Ancestral Knowledge with Contemporary Forms and Media Shaping the Future Through Tradition, an exhibition of multimedia works by Indigenous artists from the Pacific Northwest, is open now in the rotating contemporary art gallery of the Northwest Coast Hall at theContinue Reading
A species of biofluorescent fish studied for this work: an ochre-banded goatfish (Upeneus sundaicus). © John Sparks and David Gruber Two new studies on marine fish biofluorescence find a close link to coral reefs and a wide range of dazzling colors New research led by scientists at the American Museum ofContinue Reading
Credit: PETA 2024 was brat summer—will 2025 be pigeon summer? In spirited anticipation of Pigeon Appreciation Day on June 13, and in response to reports of poachers trapping pigeons in city parks to sell to hunters to use as target practice, PETA is taking over street corners and airwaves across the city toContinue Reading
This visualization shows the “local bubble,” a clearing within dense clouds of gas and dust that our solar system entered about 5 million years ago, around the time that early human ancestors were beginning to walk upright. © AMNH Narrated by Pedro Pascal, New Show Marks the 25th Anniversary ofContinue Reading
While fine-tuning a simulation of the Oort cloud, a vast expanse of ice material left over from thebirth of our Sun, the Encounters in the Milky Way production team noticed a very clear shape: a structure made of billions of comets and shaped like a spiral-armed galaxy, seen here inContinue Reading
This life-size model (20 feet) is of the southern elephant seal (Mirounga leonina), which spends two months a year living on land in Antarctica and the rest of the year hunting for fish and squid in the frigid Southern Ocean. While hunting, the elephant seal can dive down nearly aContinue Reading
Including An Appearance by Chief Raoni Metuktire and a Special Guest Performance by Coldplay’s Chris Martin Festival Campaign to Center Indigenous and Local Communities, Aims to Mobilize $1 Billion To Protect and Restore the Amazon Rainforest Today at the Global Citizen NOW summit in New York, Global Citizen, the world’s leadingContinue Reading
A visualization of the Milky Way’s collision with the Sagittarius dwarf galaxy, which has been ongoing for several billion years, based on a simulation from the University of Surrey. Jon Parker /© AMNH For the 25th anniversary of the iconic Frederick Phineas and Sandra Priest Rose Center for Earth andContinue Reading