During a snowstorm in January 1885, Wilson ”Snowflake” Bentley, a Vermont farmer turned scientist, is said to have become the first person to photograph a single snow crystal—more commonly known…Continue Reading →
The professed aim of “A Mirror Maze: Numbers In Nature”—the new exhibit on view at Boston’s Museum of Science through April 25—is to highlights mathematical patterns in the natural world:…Continue Reading →
Some weeks back I found myself struggling to phrase what suddenly seemed like a delicate question: Have you seen Uranus? Actually, I didn’t get a chance to ask the question…Continue Reading →
In recent months, Mark Lotterhand has been haunting the Squannacook River in northern Massachusetts. “I’ve been running around chasing snakes. On my bucket list was to find a population—called a…Continue Reading →
Recent snows and rains and frosts have transformed the Cascade falls in Melrose into a dazzling ice palace. The 40-foot-tall formation is one of the closest waterfalls to Boston—and an…Continue Reading →
By the end of this century, how will global warming and rising seas have changed Boston? A lot more of it is expected to be under water—much as it was…Continue Reading →
Photos of a polar bear playing in a snowstorm at Chicago’s Lincoln Park Zoo, Dec. 29, 2017. (Copyright Greg Cook)Continue Reading →
The 4-year-old and I are on the MBTA’s Silver Line heading to see the exhibition “Mark Dion: Misadventures of a 21st-Century Naturalist” at Boston’s Institute of Contemporary Art (through Dec.…Continue Reading →
Grassroots Wildlife Conservation—a Concord, Massachusetts, nonprofit devoted to ecological education and on-the-ground protection of rare New England species—will merge with Zoo New England, the Boston institution that operates the Franklin…Continue Reading →
Photos from Backyard Growers’ “Incredible Edible Downtown Garden Tour,” the community gardening group’s “first-ever, self-guided urban garden tour,” in Gloucester, Massachusetts, on July 15, 2017. Including the Bogin-Olson family garden on…Continue Reading →