EditorialBeach boulders used to control erosion at Anastasia State Park in St. Augustine Beach, Fla., Sept. 23, 2022. (Lawren Simmons/The New York Times)
EditorialBeach boulders used to control erosion at Anastasia State Park in St. Augustine Beach, Fla., Sept. 23, 2022. (Lawren Simmons/The New York Times)
EditorialBeach boulders used to control erosion at Anastasia State Park in St. Augustine Beach, Fla., Sept. 23, 2022. (Lawren Simmons/The New York Times)
EditorialResidents of Santa Cruz, Calif., clear storm debris and stack sandbags near their homes on Saturday, Jan. 7, 2023, while bracing for potential flooding in the coming days. (Mike Kai Chen/The New York Times)
EditorialA hiker makes his way through boulders along the Pacific Crest Trail near Bingham Lake in Northern California, on Aug 16, 2022, an area that has not been burned in recent years. (Mason Trinca/The New York Times)
EditorialNico Mookhoek, a guide with Green Dog Svalbard, inside an ice cave in the Scott Turner Glacier in Spitsbergen, Norway, on April 21, 2022. He took a new route to the glacier this year because of exposed rocks and boulders on the old one. (Erin Schaff/The New York Times)
EditorialNico Mookhoek, a guide with Green Dog Svalbard, inside an ice cave in the Scott Turner Glacier in Spitsbergen, Norway, on April 21, 2022. He took a new route to the glacier this year because of exposed rocks and boulders on the old one. (Erin Schaff/The New York Times)
EditorialVinny Marciano, a one-time high-school swimming phenom who left the sport suddenly, boulders with friends in the Shawangunk Mountains, in Gardiner, N.Y., July 7, 2021. (Christopher Gregory-Rivera/The New York Times)
EditorialVinny Marciano, a one-time high-school swimming phenom who left the sport suddenly, boulders with friends in the Shawangunk Mountains, in Gardiner, N.Y., July 7, 2021. (Christopher Gregory-Rivera/The New York Times)
EditorialMembers of the Israeli National baseball team during the opening ceremony for a game against the Rockland Boulders in Pomona, N.Y., on July 13, 2021. (Gregg Vigliotti/The New York Times)
EditorialBoulders block off the Kanawha Falls Bridge from traffic while it remains closed on May 6, 2021, in Kanawha Falls, W.V. (Erin Schaff/The New York Times)
EditorialPetroglyphs on the boulders at Track Rock Gap in the Chattahoochee National Forest in Union County, Ga., were vandalized. (U.S. Forest Service via The New York Times)
EditorialA view across asteroid Bennu’s southern hemisphere and into space, showing its distribution of boulders. The OSIRIS-REX spacecraft has been circling the asteroid for two years. (NASA/Goddard/University of Arizona via The New York Times)
EditorialA 5.8-magnitude earthquake shook southwestern Puerto Rico before sunrise on Monday, sending boulders into roads, cracking house walls and frightening people out of their beds. (Erika P. Rodriguez/The New York Times)
EditorialA detail of a quietly persuasive sculptural installation titled, a stone that thinks of Enceladus, by Martha Tuttle, one of the new exhibitions at Storm King Art Center, in Cornwall, N.Y., on July 8, 2020. (Bryan Derballa/The New York Times)
EditorialA detail of a quietly persuasive sculptural installation titled, a stone that thinks of Enceladus, by Martha Tuttle, one of the new exhibitions at Storm King Art Center, in Cornwall, N.Y., on July 8, 2020. (Bryan Derballa/The New York Times)
EditorialItaly: I can't breathe. The sentence pronounced by George Floyd, killed on 25 May by a police officer, appeared on the boulders of the Foro Italico
EditorialA sunken tugboat, which carried a barge of boulders meant to seal the breach at the sea defense, next to flooded rice fields lost to floods last year, in Mahaicony, Guyana, March 5, 2020. (Adriana Loureiro Fernandez/The New York Times)
EditorialBoulders placed along the shore of Shinnecock Bay to blunt erosion from waves, in Shinnecock Nation, Southampton, N.Y., Feb. 24, 2020. (Andrew Seng/The New York Times)
EditorialAlan Grinberg pays for a wall of intricately layered boulders to slow the erosion of the bluff below his home in Pacifica, Calif. (Chang W. Lee/The New York Times)
EditorialA woman uses her smartphone to photograph a partially collapsed house following an earthquake in Guanica, Puerto Rico, on Monday, Jan. 6, 2020. (Erika P. Rodriguez/The New York Times)