EditorialWorkers removing the top soil from a garden in Naraha, Japan, inside Fukushima’s evacuation zone, on Sept. 3, 2013. (Tomas Munita/The New York Times)
EditorialOn a wet fall day, a western scrub jay makes a small jump while taking walnuts from the roof of a shed in an orchard near Elkton in western Oregon. The bird was using it's powerful beak to break open the nuts and eat the tender meat inside.