Photograph: Marizilda Cruppe/Greenpeace
The controversial Belo Monte dam and hydropower plant in the Amazon - a gallery of its construction
The Belo Monte would be the third largest dam in the world, and the second largest in Brazil. It is expected to submerge as much as 400,000 hectares and could displace an estimated 20,000 people
The Remains of the Day - with author’s annotations…
See how Kazuo Ishiguro has annotated this copy of his novel. The...
Spring Blossoms, Montclair, New Jersey by George Inness (ca. 1891)
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Photos from the annual bee market at Veenendaal — “the biggest in Europe,” according to LIFE.
About 25 years ago, a slowly-rising tide claimed the Argentine town of Epecuen, once a lakeside village that saw tens of...
Acoustic LevitationAt the U.S. Department of Energy’s Argonne National Laboratory, scientists have been experimenting...
Unsettling photographs taken inside a psychiatric hospital in 1938.
Caption from LIFE. “Continuous-flow bath is the best method for calming...
