Introduction

On Valentine’s Day 1981, twelve-year-old Todd Domboski crossed his grandmother’s...

Introduction

On a June afternoon in 1890, in the wooded uplands...

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In August 2013, an Adelaide opal buyer named Mike Poben...

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In the summer of 2020, with the park’s gates shut...

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On the morning of 5 February 1869, in a shallow...

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A man pushes through jungle undergrowth, machete in hand. One...

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In November 2012, Rebecca Flowers of the University of Colorado...

A storm with no cloud

On the night of 15 January...

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By late January 2025, the residents of Santorini had stopped sleeping well....

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Climb to the rim of Kawah Ijen at two in...

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Two billion years ago, a rock between 20 and 25...

A hole that should not exist

In mid-July 2014, helicopter crews...

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Put your palm flat against the wall of Dales Gorge...

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In the spring of 1930, a pilot flying for Fairchild...

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The deepest blue hole in the world sits under a...

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Sometime between 1504 and 1510, in the Italian Apennines, Leonardo...

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In the summer of 1996, on a sandy military reservation...

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You hear it before you see it. A faint crystalline...

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Sometime around 1271, a young Venetian crossed the desert east of the...

Introduction

The ground gave almost no warning. Somewhere beneath what would...