Sad summer: Maldives suffers coral bleaching
Rising temperatures, especially this summer, have damaged coral reefs world-wide.
Rising temperatures, especially this summer, have damaged coral reefs world-wide.
Which way is up? A well camouflaged butterfly, photographed on a lamp in Thailand by Sarcee.
Ian Cook shares a visit to Lamprecht's Cave, Austria. It is a river-formed cave and one of the deepest caves in the world.
Kirsten Hines's series on Celebrating Nature on Seven Continents continues with stops in North America. The first post highlights salmon spawning in Canada, eh?
Gumbo was visiting the Cave and Basin National Historic Site, the original site around which Canada's first National Park -- Banff National Park -- was created.
The Grand Beedapest Hotel caters to Britain's honeybees, raising public awareness of their critical role in agriculture.
Ian Cook shares images of and from Pico de las Nieves, the highest peak of the island of Gran Canaria, Canary Islands, Spain.
Celebrating Nature on 7 Continents: Europe, part 3. Kirsten wraps her celebration of nature in Europe by tapping into the spirit of freedom embodied by wild Camargue horses in France.
In his first post on TravelGumbo, Tim Newcomb visits the oldest trees in the world in the White Mountains of California
On a side trip from Las Vegas, Samantha found this park, well-equipped with recreational equipment...and bighorn sheep!
Taiwan's Yeliu Geopark struggles for a way to preserve its unusual stone formations, one resembling (maybe) Queen Elizabeth I of England.
Rome's long-dormant volcanoes are moving, slowly, toward future eruptions. Hopefully for Rome, not too soon.
Ian Cook shares a beautiful nature walk along the River Gelt, capped with 1800 year old evidence of Roman quarrying from the nearby rock.
Similar shapes, very different origins for these items from the Lyme Regis Museum in Dorset.
Celebrating Nature on 7 Continents: Europe, part 2 - Flamingos in the Camargue, France. Kirsten Hines continues her series with a visit to a frenzied flamingo flock in France.