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Rebecca Hale

After bookcloth became a popular and affordable alternative to leather for bookmaking, publishers began releasing volumes in a range of colours, including emerald green.

During the 19th century, emerald green pigment was all the rage in fashion and home decor—despite the fact that it contains arsenic.

8. quaking aspen 9. ponderosa pine 10. amabilis fir 11. yellow cedar 12. Douglas fir 13. subalpine fir 14. western hemlock 15. lodgepole pine

As they grapple with climate change, foresters in British Columbia and their colleagues have planted 152,376 seedlings from 15 tree species at 48 sites between Northern California and the southern Yukon. This massive enterprise, known as the Assisted Migration Adaptation Trial, aims to ensure that species and seed sources selected for planting will be well suited to climate conditions they may experience throughout their lifetimes. 1. grand fir 2. common paper birch 3. Sitka spruce 4. western red cedar 5. hybrid spruce 6. western larch 7. western white pine

Sample vials containing samples melted from a slice of all Everest cores. The melted ice will be analyzed for chemistry.

Dr. Paul Mayewski photographed at the University of Maine with ice-core samples from Everest. The larger ice-core is a sample taken from the Everest Base Camp. The smaller sampels in plastic are from a different location. Also shot on location were sample vials containing samples melted from a slice of all Everest cores. The melted ice will be analyzed for chemistry.

Entomologist Alma Solis tends to the Smithsonian’s enormous collection of insects—which occupies several entire floors at the Smithsonian’s Museum of Natural History.

Fake movie blood stains the shorts Sylvester Stallone wore in the 1982 sport drama Rocky III. “Who’da thought Rocky would end up in the Smithsonian?” Stallone said when he donated the props in 2006. “I sure didn’t.”

A multitude of Muppets occupy a cabinet in the storage rooms of the Smithsonian’s Museum of American History. The cast of Sam and Friends (upper shelf), a forerunner of Sesame Street, includes the prototype of Jim Henson’s most famous character, Kermit the Frog.

Portraits of climate activists. Clockwise from Top Left: Alexandria Villaseñor, Ghslain Irakoze, Kehkashan Basu, Mayumi Sato, Rosie Mills, and Felix Finkbeiner