Archives: August2009

• WEEK IN PHOTOS: Beer Disaster, Martian Stunner, More

  A civet “makes” high-end coffee, farmers gather for a Scottish lamb sale, a Tokyo quake shakes up beer bottles, and more in our editor’s picks of the week’s best news pictures.

  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  

• NASA Drops “Spiders” Into Volcano

  NASA helicopters have lowered about a dozen monitoring “spiders” in and around Mount St. Helens’s volcanic crater to better predict major eruptions. Video.

  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  

• Epic Migration Seen “Through Eyes of” Antelope

  On foot, photographer Joe Riis provides an intimate window on one of North America’s longest annual migrations, which is increasingly threatened by fences and highways. Video.