#nature

#nature

The luxury chain 1 Hotels opened its Seattle location less than a week before my stay, bringing nature indoors with biophilic furniture, live plants, and natural surfaces.

The Whispering Mountains is a site-specific installation featuring illuminated, mountain-like sculptures inspired by the majestic peaks surrounding Queenstown, aiming to reflect their powerful presence.

The 'Living Cocoon' utilizes local mushroom species and upcycled hemp fibers, allowing the coffin to decompose in just 45 days and enrich the earth.

Out on the moors in the late June light, I stood where the infinite hills halved the sky and saw where you first saw your horses.

The delivery had been inexplicably delayed for a few days now. She'd seen this online, using the Track Your Package feature, which she had been checking hourly.

The climber who's leading makes a tiny slip, and your adrenaline spikes, but that's nothing compared with how you feel when a girl's body falls from the top of the cliff.

Henderson traverses vast scales of time and space, demonstrating how all of history is infused with noise - from the 'groaning' of some moons as meteors crash into them to the throbbing of veins and cracking of icebergs.

I hadn't expected to find cherry blossoms in Wallington, of all places, but there they were, lining the path with their delicate branches, not yet fully in bloom but definitely on their way.

More than 670 individual butterflies have been recorded at the Royal Botanic Gardens at Kew since April, indicating a significant increase over previous records at this site.

Birding has experienced a surge in popularity over the past decade, in part due to the pandemic, which forced so many of us outside while illuminating the inequities around access to outdoor spaces.

"When I was working on the sound for the film I brought recording equipment [to Iceland] knowing that Icelandic people would be watching Hrafnamynd."

Ichiko Aoba's music is incredibly delicate yet steadfast, with an otherworldly folk sound heavily inspired by nature, spanning a 15-year career.

The ferry doors open onto the main street of the small island of Buyukada, an enclave in the Sea of Marmara and a neighborhood in Istanbul's Adalar district, boasting beaches with crystal-clear waters.

Connolly Ranch hosts an open community day every first Wednesday of the month, inviting the public to explore the gardens, hike trails, and engage with animals.

In horror fiction, a zombie is a human ghost or spirit "somewhere between living and dead, puppeted by external forces". This book explores real zombies in the natural world: organisms that lose control to exploitative parasites as seen in a tropical wasp that paralyses a cockroach, leading to its consumption by the wasp's young. This concept may extend to humans being susceptible to 'zombie bugs'.