"Type 2 fun" -- a term that was defined 40 years ago by a geologist named Dr. Rainer Newberry -- is widely regarded as the ...

Memorial Fund has been established for Galen Rowell and Barbara Cushman Rowell through the Tides Foundation. On 11 August the world famous photographer Galen Rowell and his wife Barbara died in a ...

The story of William Anders' iconic Earthrise image, which helped to spur Earth Day and the environmental movement ...

Walter Cronkite used it as a backdrop on the “CBS Evening News.” Wilderness photographer Galen Rowell called it “the most influential environmental photograph ever taken,” and it’s no ...

Galen Rowell / Corbis Since there are 100,000 known fungus species, it might not seem all that remarkable that Robert Blanchette may have discovered three new ones. But he found the fungi where no ...

For it to flow, there has to be plenty of snowmelt. Galen Rowell took the first known photograph of the 'Firefall' in 1973. To this day, his photograph is regarded as one of the best images of ...

Called Earthwise, the image is one of the best known in the whole history of photography - and legendary landscape photographer Galen Rowell described it as "the most influential environmental ...