Abstract Wonder

The beloved photomicrography competition celebrates its 50th year with bubbly cannabis plants, vivid cellular architecture, and...Grimace? Is that you?

Satellite imagery recently captured a dramatic view of shrinking glaciers and snow cover on the remote island.

Welcome to the home of pink coral-scapes and fluorescent lizardfish.

These common formations create abstract designs and reveal important patterns of environmental change, big and small.

A photographer's drone's-eye image of the famous phumdis of northeastern India shows a unique environment undergoing change.

Mesmerizing photographs show the beauty of our wild, fragile planet.

Striking work by photographer Richard Mosse shows how merging art and technology can cut through dry data.

During the winter months, the iconic French site casts a perfect shadow on a bay full of history—and quicksand.

This microscopic treasure was collected from a remote site near the Arctic Circle.

Lake stars, ice rings, and other natural phenomena brought magic to a small Slovenian lake.

Castell-building has been a tradition in the Spanish region for centuries.

An ambitious wetlands restoration project attempts to balance a return to the area's ecological past and the realities of a changing future.

Embryos of one of the world's most unusual amphibians become art in the eyes of a biologist and wildlife photographer.

The world’s largest array of greenhouses has transformed the region economically, and in other, unforeseen ways.

No one is sure how this geological oddity got there.

Alaska’s Great Sitkin has been grumbling for nearly a year.

The great argus uses its unusual wing feathers to maximum, eye-catching effect.

Wandering currents and spring thaws make sea ice in East Greenland look like curls of smoke.