Stuart Chambers @projectourworld.bsky.social · 5hIn One of Rome’s Most Famed and Neglected Villas, Centuries-Old Risqué Frescoes, Painted Over by Nuns, Have Reappeared Nearly a year into a $40 million restoration of the Villa Silvestri Rivaldi, conservators are rediscovering and reviving 16th-century art Smithsonian Magazine 000
Stuart Chambers @projectourworld.bsky.social · 6hIn a world where financial power can influence politics, and political power can shape our planet, remember where real power begins. It begins with people Kamakura, Japan The manager of the Owl Otter Cafe, / home to rescued animals, feeds Asian small-clawed otters Photo: Kim Kyung-Hoon/Reuters 000
Stuart Chambers @projectourworld.bsky.social · 7hKilmarnock, Scotland Community campaigners demonstrate against a proposed large-scale datacentre outside the Park Hotel, where an event attended by representatives from the datacentre developer Eneus Energy was taking place Photograph: Murdo MacLeod/The Guardian 000
Stuart Chambers @projectourworld.bsky.social · 10hTime has stripped them bare, yet they endure — silent witnesses to a vanished world. In this stillness, light and shadow dance across the desert floor, revealing beauty in desolation. #namibia Photo Antwan Janssen Smithsonian Magazine 000
Stuart Chambers @projectourworld.bsky.social · 10hMeet This Year’s Chonky Champion of Fat Bear Week: Backpack, a Laid-Back 20-Year-Old Male Who’s a ‘Stoic Presence on the River’ The brown bear, who now weighs between 1,000 and 1,200 pounds after fattening up on salmon, 020
Stuart Chambers @projectourworld.bsky.social · 11hIn an Exciting but ‘Brutal’ Find, a 5,000-Year-Old Arrow Emerges From Norway’s Rapidly Melting Mountain Ice Archaeologists discovered 48 prehistoric arrows during a recent three-week expedition in the mountains of Jotunheimen Smithsonian Magazine 030
Stuart Chambers @projectourworld.bsky.social · 01/10/2026London, UK A van made to look like a heavily damaged Gaza ambulance is parked outside Palantir headquarters in Soho Square as Amnesty International UK and Just Treatment call on the government not to extend its NHS contract with the US tech company Photograph: Martin Godwin/The Guardian 092
Stuart Chambers @projectourworld.bsky.social · 01/10/2026On the floor of the unfinished cooling tower of Chernobyl’s Reactor 5, a tree grows through layers of concrete. The tree becomes a monument to life – both a warning and a possibility: nature is resilient, but its survival should not be mistaken for permission to keep pushing its limits 020
Stuart Chambers @projectourworld.bsky.social · 01/10/2026A Shark Was Spotted Swimming Through the Flooded Streets of New Jersey During the Nor’easter The creature has been identified as a smooth dogfish, a harmless species found throughout the western Atlantic Ocean. It wasn’t the only animal caught in the chaos brought by the storm system Smithsonian 010
Stuart Chambers @projectourworld.bsky.social · 01/10/2026Ghost of the Gladiolus "This image was taken in my family’s home garden, where Carolina sphinx moths forage every year. These moths are enchanting; they’re reminiscent of hummingbirds, only more ghostly." Loughran Cabe | Raphine, United States Big Picture Photography Contest WINGED LIFE RUNNER-UP 010
Stuart Chambers @projectourworld.bsky.social · 30/09/2026Dasha Tenditna, Not Alone, 2026 The Ukrainian-born photographer’s practice is rooted in her interest in people and the ways in which individual lives are shaped by their social environments. Photoworks Festival 2026 000
Stuart Chambers @projectourworld.bsky.social · 30/09/2026‘The Icebergs’ Is One of Frederic Edwin Church’s Most Spectacular Paintings. For Decades, No One Knew Where It Was In the 1970s, the administrator of a boys’ home in England wound up finding the missing 19th-century piece and bringing it back into the spotlight Smithsonian Magazine 110
Stuart Chambers @projectourworld.bsky.social · 30/09/2026Mediterranean black pigs swim at a beach on the private island of Atokos, in the Ionian Sea off the west coast of Greece. The island, which is uninhabited by humans, is owned by a shipping magnate Photograph: Aris Messinis/AFP/Getty Images/Guardian 032
Stuart Chambers @projectourworld.bsky.social · 30/09/2026The Flying Birds The vast grasslands of Kenya stretch out like a brocade woven by the earth, while a helicopter hovers in mid-air, its rotors stirring a flock of African birds. #african #birds #kenya #sky Photo Min Li ; Smithsonian Magazine 010
Stuart Chambers @projectourworld.bsky.social · 29/09/2026Japan’s Smallest and Least-Populated Major Island Is a World of Pilgrimages, Delicious Food and Plenty of Forest Bathing Each year, more than 100,000 people hike at least part of a 750-mile route on Shikoku that connects 88 Buddhist temples and other sacred sites 112
Stuart Chambers @projectourworld.bsky.social · 29/09/2026Natural Art The image, resembles an abstract painting, captures an aerial view of an Icelandic river, its flows weaving through black sandbanks. #iceland Photograph ; Matteo Strassera 010
Stuart Chambers @projectourworld.bsky.social · 29/09/2026Mysterious ‘Anomalies’ Have Been Detected Beyond King Tut’s Tomb. Could They Be Secret Passageways Leading to the Long-Lost Remains of Queen Nefertiti? Geophysical surveys provide new evidence for a theory that the Egyptian pharaoh was interred in the outer rooms of an existing burial complex. 000
Stuart Chambers @projectourworld.bsky.social · 29/09/2026A cheetah mom and her cubs take an over-the-shoulder glance toward the photographer as they enjoy the green, lush landscape of Maasai Mara. Graeme Guy, 2024 Smithsonian Magazine 010
Stuart Chambers @projectourworld.bsky.social · 28/09/2026An impala with impressive horns is just one of many animals that visitors can observe at the nearly 375,000-acre Maasai Mara National Reserve. Dan Beckmann, 2023 Smithsonian Magazine 010
Stuart Chambers @projectourworld.bsky.social · 28/09/2026Caretaker Zachary Mutai rests on his ward Najin, one of only two surviving northern white rhinos. The other is her daughter, Fatu. Matjaz Krivic, 2021 Smithsonian Magazine 010
Stuart Chambers @projectourworld.bsky.social · 28/09/2026The Solio Game Reserve boasts the highest number of rhinos in a single conservancy park. A few hundred white and black rhinos live in the 19,000-acre facility, founded in the 1970s. Photo by Amish Chhagan, 2024 Courtesy Smithsonian Magazine 020
Stuart Chambers @projectourworld.bsky.social · 28/09/2026Photographed from a helicopter above Lake Natron in Kenya, a flamboyance of flamingos—and their shadows—drift across the water. Yoshiki Nakamura, 2025 / Courtesy Smithsonian Magazine 010
Stuart Chambers @projectourworld.bsky.social · 28/09/2026Young voices. Real stories. A world worth changing. Project Our World is looking for young people with something to say. We want to give young people a voice, a platform and a place to share their stories — to challenge the way we see the world, and encourage people to take action. 000
Stuart Chambers @projectourworld.bsky.social · 28/09/2026A Rare Aztec Codex Detailing the Rise and Fall of Tenochtitlan Returns to Mexico for the First Time in Nearly Two Centuries The artifact, among the most prized visual accounts of Aztec history, will be on display in Mexico City for three months Smithsonian Magazine 000
Stuart Chambers @projectourworld.bsky.social · 27/09/2026Humanity has an extraordinary capacity to adapt, innovate and come together. The question is whether we can use that capacity before we are forced to. We believe the future isn’t something we simply inherit. It is something we build — together. 🌍 195 countries. 365 days. One shared mission. 000
Stuart Chambers @projectourworld.bsky.social · 27/09/20262 Thousand Years Ago, Julius Caesar Conquered the Settlement That Eventually Became Paris While conducting excavations at a hospital on the Île de la Cité, in the Seine, researchers discovered part of a wall that may have once protected Lutetia, the Gallic precursor to France’s capital Smithsonian 000
Stuart Chambers @projectourworld.bsky.social · 27/09/2026Love Poem "A single, heart-shaped leaf drifts along a dark autumn stream in Den Bosch, the Netherlands. Photographed from above a small stream, subtle ripples formed soft, horizontal reflections that resemble lines of text." Alex Pansier | Oss, Big Picture Contest Art of Nature Finalist 000
Stuart Chambers @projectourworld.bsky.social · 27/09/2026We talk about endangered species as if humanity stands outside the natural world. We don’t. The air we breathe. The water we drink. The food we grow. The forests, oceans and soil that sustain us. We are part of the same system. 000
Stuart Chambers @projectourworld.bsky.social · 26/09/2026An endangered Andean cat captured on camera at La Payunia Reserve, Argentina. This is a rare sighting: only about 2,100 of these wild cats still exist in the wild Photograph: Greater Good Charities and Wildlife Conservation Society Argentina / Guardian 042
Stuart Chambers @projectourworld.bsky.social · 26/09/2026Birds without borders, U.S. and Canada, winner: A Tennessee warbler perches on an elderberry branch while hunting flying ants in photographer and wildlife biologist Nick Parayko’s backyard in Alberta. Nick Parayko / Audubon Photography Awards 010
Stuart Chambers @projectourworld.bsky.social · 26/09/2026195in365 / Project Our World are looking to find extraordinary human stories already embedded in ordinary communities, and use visual storytelling to share these stories to a wider world. Picture Credit: Mural Unsung Heroes, painted by Australian artist SMUG (SmugOne) Photo; RNLI/New Brighton. 010
Stuart Chambers @projectourworld.bsky.social · 26/09/2026Covered with dust stirred by their hooves, wildebeest run up a hill from a riverbank after having a drink at the Maasai Mara National Reserve. Rajiv Bhambri, 2024 Smithsonian Magazine 042
Stuart Chambers @projectourworld.bsky.social · 26/09/2026A lion surveys his vast territory in Maasai Mara. Jenny Zhao, 2018 Smithsonian Magazine 000
Stuart Chambers @projectourworld.bsky.social · 25/09/2026Back to Fishing, birds in the environment category bronze award: Gentoo penguins move through the water en masse, looking for fish. Photograph by Romain Barats / Bird Photographer of the Year. Courtesy Smithsonian Magazine 000
Stuart Chambers @projectourworld.bsky.social · 25/09/2026A humpback whale mother and calf playfully interacting off the coast of Tahiti. Humpback whales migrate to give birth Renee Capozzola | Palos Verdes Estates, United States. Big Picture Photo Contest AQUATIC LIFE FINALIST 020
Stuart Chambers @projectourworld.bsky.social · 25/09/2026A 3,000-Year-Old Warhorse Burial and a Ramses II Tablet, Among Other Relics, Have Been Discovered in an Ancient Egyptian Fortress New excavations in the Nile Delta offer eye-opening clues about military and residential life in the New Kingdom era Smithsonian Magazine 010
Stuart Chambers @projectourworld.bsky.social · 25/09/2026Sunset Puffin, best portrait category silver award: A puffin at the United Kingdom’s Skomer Island sits in the evening, backlit by reflections on the ocean. By Volker Widmann / Bird Photographer of the Year / Courtesy Smithsonian Magazine 021
Stuart Chambers @projectourworld.bsky.social · 25/09/2026The bright dragon contrasts strikingly with the textured surfaces of the old buildings, creating a lively and festive scene rich in China By Guanghui Gu Smithsonian Magazine Photo Contest Awards 011
Stuart Chambers @projectourworld.bsky.social · 24/09/2026Scotland’s wellbeing economy is aiming to balance economic growth with environmental limits, social equity, and public health. Core Priorities includes. Fair & Green Growth: Building a net-zero, nature-positive economy. Measuring success via citizen wellbeing rather than narrow output metrics. 010
Stuart Chambers @projectourworld.bsky.social · 24/09/2026Sunball Rocket, overall winner: A northern gannet plunges headfirst into the water in pursuit of prey. By Henley Spiers / Bird Photographer of the Year 2026 000
Stuart Chambers @projectourworld.bsky.social · 24/09/2026At the Mid-Autumn Festival, Philadelphia’s Chinatown Is ‘Building the World We Want’ The Chinese festival centers around the moon, historically as a religious practice in worshipping the moon goddess, Chang’e. In this Chinese American community, it has grown to become a source of agency and advocacy 000
Stuart Chambers @projectourworld.bsky.social · 24/09/2026Researchers in Turkey Have Unearthed an Ancient Fragment Inscribed With the World’s Oldest Peace Treaty The piece of a clay tablet is marked with Akkadian cuneiform, and its text belongs to the Kadesh Peace Treaty, created by ancient Egyptians and Hittites in the 13th century B.C.E. Smithsonian 000
Stuart Chambers @projectourworld.bsky.social · 23/09/2026For anybody who believes change is impossible. The Montreal Protocol, agreed in 1987 phased out chemicals that damage the ozone layer, particularly CFCs used in refrigerators, air conditioners, and aerosols etc, One of the strongest examples of successful international environmental cooperation: 000
Stuart Chambers @projectourworld.bsky.social · 23/09/2026Scientists Say the Human Brain Might Be Made of Two Distinct Nervous Systems That Got Squished Together Two separate types of progenitor cells give rise to the front and back of the organ, according to a new study. The findings can help researchers study human diseases that affect the hindbrain 000
Stuart Chambers @projectourworld.bsky.social · 23/09/2026A hawksbill sea turtle munches away on a sponge near Juno Beach. Thomas Green, Florida, 2010 Image Smithsonian Magazine Photo Contest image feature captivating sea creatures Photographs selected Donny Bajohr Updated: September 8, 2026 | Originally Published: April 18, 2024 021
Stuart Chambers @projectourworld.bsky.social · 23/09/2026A school of sardines makes a fine buffet for a striped marlin in Baja Magdalena. Franco Banfi, Mexico, 2020 Smithsonian Magazine 000
Stuart Chambers @projectourworld.bsky.social · 23/09/2026Colossal Stone Monument Built 1,000 Years Before Stonehenge Shows Neolithic Engineers Understood Science A recent study of the Menga dolmen in Spain reveals complex construction techniques used roughly 6,000 years ago. Smithsonian Magazine 000
Stuart Chambers @projectourworld.bsky.social · 23/09/2026Cameras Capture Adult Chimpanzees Passing Tools—and Know-How—to Their Young, Teaching Important Skills to the Next Generation Researchers recorded the footage of wild chimps sharing skills Smithsonian Magazine 010
Stuart Chambers @projectourworld.bsky.social · 22/09/2026Carnival Candy "This is a microscope image of a slime mold, less than 2 mm, commonly known as carnival candy slime mold. The image captured is the exact moment the slime mold is releasing its spores." Henri Koskinen | Helsinki, Finland ART OF NATURE FINALIST | Big Picture Contest 110
Stuart Chambers @projectourworld.bsky.social · 22/09/2026Archaeologists Are Reconstructing the ‘Invisible’ Technologies of the Stone Age Largely missing from the archaeological record, fiber innovations played a huge role in the lives of early humans. Knowable Magazine /Smithsonian Magazine 010