Mount Adams rising beyond the blooms of Snowgrass Flats. #pnw

Forbes retracted Chris Dorsey’s polar-bear article 48 hours after my rebuttal went live. Dive in: notesfromtheroad.com/roam/chris-dor… #polarbears #climatechange #factcheck #mediaaccountability

1956 neon sign at the Siesta Motel in Durango. While these old beauty is well-preserved, other #AtomicAge and #Googie signs are being removed. In fact, I just learned that some of these signs I photographed or sketched in Las Vegas a few years ago are now gone.

A classic Tunisian doorway in Sidi Bou Said. #Tunisia

A drop of pond water can contain hundreds of species. Entire ecosystems we never see. New essay: A Drop of Water and Lago Angostura Part IV of V in the Turrialba series. notesfromtheroad.com/neotropics/lag…

Shiprock rising from the high desert of New Mexico.

I took this in Detroit, Oregon after the 2020 fires. A washing machine melted into something unrecognizable. This is the reality Patrick Moore waves away in Chapter 9 of his anti–climate change book. Read my full rebuttal: notesfromtheroad.com/roam/patrick-m… #Wildfires #ClimateChange

Morning light catching the gorget of an Anna’s hummingbird at Tualatin River National Wildlife Refuge in Oregon.

Evening over Birgu, Malta. I went to #Malta to write about a small island cheese called ġbejna. Its history runs from Neolithic seafarers to modern climate pressures on the Mediterranean. notesfromtheroad.com/europa/malta.h…

One of the best things you’ll read this year. Final post in a three-part series on the hidden system that keeps civilization running—starting with insects along a river in Costa Rica. notesfromtheroad.com/neotropics/rio… #biodiversity #nature

Trump demeaned an American hero by falsely claiming he hurt Americans. In fact, Trump has incited the deaths of more Americans than any other American since Jefferson Davis. #robertmueller notesfromtheroad.com/roam/trump-vio…

Laundry hanging above a narrow street in Rovinj, Croatia.

Sunset across the hoodoos of the Bisti Badlands, New Mexico. notesfromtheroad.com/desertsouthwes… #NewMexico #LandscapePhotography

Bleached trunks rising from the lagoon beside Tuheiava Pass, the only entrance to Tikehau. notesfromtheroad.com/oceania/tikeha… #FrenchPolynesia

Euljiro after the machines stop. #Seoul

Morning light at Ridgefield NWR. Washington does this sometimes.

Lake Manly has returned to Death Valley. And with it, the old fight over a one-inch fish. “The Pupfish Wars of Death Valley” — a full update to one of my oldest stories on Notes from the Road. notesfromtheroad.com/desertsouthwes…

Thick-horned nudibranch in a Cannon Beach tidepool. One of the strange little wonders of the Oregon coast.

Vermilion Cliffs National Monument, short-lived desert pools catching the last light of day.

Male Black-crested Coquette, Cartago Province. One of the tiniest hummingbirds at just 2.5–3 inches, somehow one of the most ornate. Everyone notices the crest, but it’s the gold orbs on his chest that steal the show.