https://www.nationalgeographic.com/culture/article/photos-of-robert-e-lee-statue-throughout-time
2021-09-10T19:58:03.222000+00:00
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People watch as statue of Civil War General Robert E. Lee is removed in Richmond, Virginia.
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Devon Henry, owner of the construction company that removed the Robert E. Lee statue, hugs his mother Freda Thorton after the Confederate sculpture was removed from its pedestal on Monument Avenue in Richmond, Virginia.
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The statue of Confederate General Robert E. Lee is sawed in half after being removed from its plinth in Richmond, Virginia.
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Archival image of the installation of the Robert E. Lee monument in Richmond, Virginia in 1890.
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The unveiling of the Robert E. Lee monument in Richmond, Virginia in 1890.
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Tobacco field near Confederate General Robert E. Lee monument in Richmond, Virginia, circa 1917.
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Early 20th century photograph of the Robert E. Lee Monument in Richmond, Virginia.
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State Police keep a handful of Confederate protesters separated from counter demonstrators in front of the statue of General Robert E. Lee on Monument Avenue in Richmond, Virginia on September 16, 2017. The group of Confederate demonstrators were escorted out by police after a 50-minute protest.
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The statue of Robert E. Lee is temporarily transformed into a Black Lives Matter monument with a projection of a portrait of George Floyd, whose death in Minneapolis after a white police officer pressed a knee into his neck sparked nationwide protests. Note to readers: Through our standard image toning processes, we de-emphasized 10 instances of the f-word that were visible in this photo. It’s an extremely rare step for us to take, but it honors our policy not to use that word in stories or display it in photographs.
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The statue of Confederate General Robert E. Lee is removed from its pedestal on Wednesday, September 8, 2021 in Richmond, Virginia. The 12-ton statue has towered over Monument Avenue since 1890. Its removal, following a Supreme Court ruling, spurred jubilation among those gathered to witness the momentous event in Richmond, Virginia—former capital of the Confederacy.
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The statue of Confederate general Robert E. Lee is removed from its plinth on Wednesday, Sept. 8, 2021 in Richmond, Va. The statue has towered over Monument Avenue since 1890. (Amr Alfiky, National Geographic)
https://www.nationalgeographic.com/science/article/how-harnessing-the-powers-of-venom-could-lead-to-new-medicines
2021-09-08T16:42:22.569000+00:00
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Mandë Holdford, professor of chemistry at Hunter College and City University of New York Graduate Center, studies the therapeutic power of snail venom. Cone snails have one of the most lethal venoms on the planet.
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Cone snails are currently used to produce the drug known as Prialt, which can only be consumed by an injection in the spine. Holdford is looking to expand the venom’s use to create a pain medicine that is easier to consume, non-addictive, and would act an alternative to opioids currently on the market.
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The Australian giant stinging tree is common in the rainforests of Eastern Australia and can grow more than 130 feet high. It’s usually the little ones with leaves closer to the ground that get people, though. The tree's painful sting lasts for hours, and some of the symptoms can recur for weeks afterward.
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The Australian bull ant packs a notoriously painful sting. A team lead by Robinson published the first comprehensive study of this ant's venom in 2018, which could help researchers develop new painkillers.
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Zoltan Takacs, a National Geographic grantee, places a scorpion into a vial to transport it out of the jungle at a campsite in Chu Yang Sin National Park in Vietnam. He and Vietnamese researchers were in the park searching for venomous scorpions, snakes, snails, frogs, and spiders to extract deadly toxins and use them to study new pain medications and life saving drugs.
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Scientists collect venom from a scorpion by applying a low electric shock to the tail joint to draw venom out from the stinger. Studying the chemical components of different venoms could lead to new medical treatments for humans.
TIL: A Venomous Animal May Save Your Life
It might surprise you that some of the world’s deadliest animals save millions of human lives—one day they might even save yours. In this week’s Today I Learned, National Geographic Emerging Explorer Zoltan Takacs reveals how venomous creatures could be the future of pharmacology.More than a hundred million years of evolution have honed venom into the only natural substance that can take a life in less than a minute. Surprisingly, it’s this deadly efficiency that makes it the perfect template for new medicines: Venom toxins target key life functions, bind tightly, and aim with high specificity—all qualities you want in a drug. They work in a way that's similar to most medicines, targeting vital bodily systems by fitting into specific molecules like a key into a lock.Today we have about 20 medications derived from venom, treating everything from heart failure to chronic pain. Most of these medications are made with toxins synthetically produced in the lab, while a few are derived by milking the venom of captive snakes. With more than a hundred thousand venomous creatures in the world, these 20 medications could be just the beginning.PRODUCER/EDITOR: Laurence AlexanderSERIES PRODUCER: Christopher Mattle
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https://www.nationalgeographic.com/animals/article/how-tabby-cats-get-their-stripes
2021-09-13T13:29:35.836000+00:00
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Tabby stripes originate from the domestic cat's direct ancestor, the Near Eastern wildcat.
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Of the nearly 60 million pet cats in the U.S., the classic striped tabby is especially popular.
https://www.nationalgeographic.com/environment/article/to-keep-the-lights-on-new-orleans-grid-needs-to-change-here-is-how
2021-09-13T17:54:09.109000+00:00
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Tommy Giles, Craig Spinks, and Jeremy Frank work to clear tree drebris off the road. Members of the Shreveport Volunteer Network and Cajun Navy aided in clearing fallen trees from homes in Houma, Louisiana, after Hurricane Ida made landfall.
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Francine Chouest, Jeannie Broussard, and Lesa Comier prepared jambalaya made by The Best Stop out of Scott, Louisiana. They gave out the stew, along with donated cleaning supplies, to line workers and neighbors cleaning up after the storm. “This gave me a renewed spirit,” Chouest said.
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Terrebonne Parish, along the edge of The Gulf of Mexico, sustained heavy flooding and downed power lines from Hurricane Ida.
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Teena Jackson brings baby supplies to her uncle after the storm. “It’s life, it’s about survival. You can’t just roll over and die,” Jackson said. “It’s not our first lights out.”
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Mercedes Vega cleans up her family's yard in Cut Off, Louisiana. “It was a tremendous felling, the wind on your body, Vega, 84, said of standing on her porch and feeling the 150-mile-per-hour winds. “When in your life are you going to feel such a thing?”
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Mercedes Vega holds a pecan that fell from her tree during Hurricane Ida.
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Like many fruit trees in the area, the leaves were shaken off this persimmon tree in the storm.
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Melvin Peoples, left, and Aaron K Washington sit with filled gas canisters in the Mid City neighborhood of New Orleans. It’s our city and this is what people, not just our city, go through,” Washington said, “cause some people have it much worse.”
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Three days after Hurricane Ida made land fall, Elie Schoen brought gas to New Orleans.
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Three days after Hurricane Ida made landfall in southeastern Louisiana, workers stabilize a downed power line. The crews work 16-hour days and estimate that they won't be finished for about a month.
https://www.nationalgeographic.com/photo-of-the-day/media-spotlight/humpback-whale-windsurfing-canada
2021-09-08T13:16:21.815000+00:00
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Whale Watching
https://www.nationalgeographic.com/travel/article/tahiti-women-rock-the-boat-in-outrigger-canoe-sport
2022-01-26T17:10:08.463000+00:00
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The ancestors of today’s Polynesians reached the islands of Tahiti via outrigger canoes, called va’a, possibly from mainland Southeast Asia, genetic research suggests.
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Va‘a women athletes huddle at the Hawaiki Nui Va’a competition in Tahiti in 2019. The island-to-island canoe race is the largest in the region.
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In the Marquesas, one of the island chains comprising French Polynesia, a young man trains in an outrigger canoe in the village of Hakahau.
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Women compete in outrigger canoeing, called va’a, as part of the 2019 Heiva cultural festival on Tahiti. Female athletes are vying for equal treatment in the traditional sport, which connects Polynesians with their heritage.
https://www.nationalgeographic.com/history/article/veterans-dug-up-a-wwii-bomber-in-hopes-of-finding-peace
2022-01-26T17:10:07.510000+00:00
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One of many B-24s lost in combat, this one was returning from a bombing raid over Austria when it was attacked by German fighters. The bomber caught fire and exploded, killing all 10 crewmen. “It happened so fast, they didn’t have much of a chance,” the photographer was quoted as saying.
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American ground crewmen train hoses on the flaming wreckage of a B-24 after the bomber crashed on an airfield in southern Italy in 1944.
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An international team of military veterans and archaeologists excavate the remains of a B-24 nicknamed Johnny Reb that crashed near Arundel, England, in June 1944. Seven of the plane’s 10-man crew bailed out and survived; three died in the crash.
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University of York archaeologist Steve Roskams searches for artifacts during the recent excavation near Arundel.
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While British bombers flew mostly night missions, U.S. bombers conducted high-risk daylight raids. In 1943, an American airman stood only a one-in-five chance of surviving his 25-mission tour of duty.
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By the end of World War II, more than 18,000 B-24s had been built, making it the most mass-produced aircraft in history.
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Ground crewmen wave off a B-24 as it departs an airfield in England to bomb targets over mainland Europe during the run-up to the D-Day invasion.
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Flying from bases in England during World War II, B-24 Liberator bombers were key weapons in freeing Europe from Nazi domination.
https://www.nationalgeographic.com/photo-of-the-day/media-spotlight/jerusalem-orthodox-judaism-western-wall
2021-09-07T13:23:17.714000+00:00
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Western Wall
https://www.nationalgeographic.com/animals/article/why-animal-shelters-are-facing-a-new-crisis
2021-09-08T14:17:20.422000+00:00
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Field services officer Mandi Jo Brennan holds a puppy brought to the shelter as a stray so Paige Fowler can administer a parvovirus test. The shelter tests all dogs under six months old for the virus—a common, highly contagious, and potentially fatal pathogen in puppies.
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Photos and behavioral information about each dog is clipped to their kennels, which helps staff and prospective adopters make good matches. King’s chart shows that he isn’t a fan of sharing his toys and needs to go to a home where he’s the only dog. The five-year-old mixed-breed dog is a staff favorite.
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Bella, a mixed-breed dog, jumps for attention in her pen while other dogs rest in crates in the hallway. The shelter is so full that it’s housing multiple dogs in enclosures designed for just one and keeping others in temporary crates.
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Newly washed dog bowls and bottles of medicine sit in a prep room at the shelter.
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Veterinary technician Alexandra Day prepares a sedated dog for surgery. The shelter’s medical staff performs up to 20 spay and neuter procedures a day. Across the U.S., wait lists for these procedures are long, especially for shelters that don’t have a veterinarian on staff. As a result, adoptions are delayed and shelters stay full.
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A young cat sits in a kennel in an isolated part of the shelter that’s reserved for recent intakes with illnesses.
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Kittens Seabreeze and Sarah look out of their enclosure in the cat room, which is in a portable trailer behind the shelter’s main building.
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Shelter staff member Chloe Arrington holds Ladonna, while technician Kebreaunna Benn cleans the cage of Sierra Leon, a two-year-old male who was just adopted.
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Arrington and her wife Nikki play with their dogs (from left) Blair, Baleigh, Bronte, and Boss at their farm just outside Atlanta. They’ve adopted six dogs, a ferret, two rabbits, a cat, a rat, and a sugar glider.
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Bronte, a hound mix, leaps to a drink out of hose as Baleigh, a golden retriever mix, investigates something in the grass. After being furloughed from her corporate job last year, Arrington took a role as a social media coordinator with LifeLine, the organization that runs the Fulton County shelter, to fulfill a dream of working with animals full-time.
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Siegfried the bunny peers out of his hutch in the Arringtons’ house. Chloe brought home Siegfried and another bunny, Roy, earlier this year from the shelter to foster them. Since then, she and Nikki have decided to adopt them.
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The Arringtons’ dogs wait at the gate on their farm. Blair, the blue pitbull whose tail is visible on the left, is a “fospice” dog—a term that blends “foster” and “hospice.” The Arringtons will care for her for the rest of her life.
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Prospective adopter Tati Keita hugs a dog during a meet-and-greet event at the Fulton shelter on August 11. Many shelters have held fewer adoption events since the start of the pandemic because of safety precautions and staffing shortages.
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Buddha, Atlas, and Adonis peer out of a kennel at the Fulton County animal shelter in Atlanta, Georgia, on August 11. The shelter was built to hold 120 animals, but it currently houses 300. It’s one of many across North America that is overcrowded—a result of pandemic-related challenges.
https://www.nationalgeographic.com/magazine/article/using-facial-recognition-on-grizzlies-and-more-advances
2022-06-20T15:19:30.572000+00:00
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Wonder what happens to recycled glass bottles? Thanks to one company, at least some of them get ground into particles that can take the place of sand in industrial uses, helping to preserve beaches.
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Plant toxins are no problem for whiteflies. They “stole” a neutralizing gene, in what scientists say is one of the first known cases of functional gene transfer between plants and animals.
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With deep-learning algorithms, a new software called BearID can map the facial features of grizzlies, making it easier to identify and track the animals.
https://www.nationalgeographic.com/magazine/article/see-the-grotesque-beauty-of-mining-waste
2022-06-20T15:17:59.663000+00:00
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For some 20 years after mining began in the late 1970s, the Romanian government evacuated hundreds of residents of the village of Geamăna. Villagers say that officials promised to relocate their cemetery but never did. Buildings in Geamăna were also left in place. Each year, the water level rises by roughly three feet, swallowing more of the village. Houses, roads, trees: All are sinking beneath the slurry.
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One day it may disappear, but for now the spire of Geamăna’s early 19th-century church remains visible, poking out of the lake at the center of this image.
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Since first visiting the copper mine’s polluted lake, Gheorghe Popa has returned many times. The scene, he says, “keeps drawing me to it like a forbidden fruit.”
https://www.nationalgeographic.com/family/article/your-family-guide-to-stargazing-the-fall-sky
2022-02-25T22:48:20.729000+00:00
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Mid-September is likely the best chance your family will get to spot Neptune in the night sky. Kids can also observe Saturn with their naked eye.
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Venus will be exceptionally bright in mid-October.
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Use binoculars to spy the Andromeda galaxy on a moonless September or October night.
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If conditions are right, fall sky watchers might glimpse the northern lights in unexpected places, like New York (above) or even Florida.
https://www.nationalgeographic.com/science/article/nasa-perseverance-mars-rover-grabs-first-sample-in-hunt-for-alien-life
2021-09-07T00:14:28.946000+00:00
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This small cylinder of rock—shown here within the rover’s drill rig—is the first sample of dozens that NASA plans to return to Earth.
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NASA’s Perseverance Mars rover has collected its first sample of rock for return to Earth, part of its mission to finally reveal whether the red planet ever hosted life.
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NASA’s Perseverance Mars rover took a selfie with the Ingenuity helicopter, seen here about 13 feet (3.9 meters) from the rover. This image was taken by the WATSON camera on the rover’s robotic arm on April 6, 2021, the 46th Martian day, or sol, of the mission.
https://www.nationalgeographic.com/animals/article/male-squid-help-choose-a-home-for-their-mate-first-ever-study-shows
2021-09-05T14:26:50.429000+00:00
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A pair of bigfin reef squid tend eggs laid along a buoy line in Indonesia's Lembeh Strait.
https://www.nationalgeographic.com/animals/article/good-news-for-tuna-populations-in-latest-iucn-update
2021-09-07T14:56:40.362000+00:00
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Atlantic bluefin tuna school in the Mediterranean Sea off Sardinia, Italy. The species has seen an incredible recovery from overfishing.
Komodo Dragon Breeding
Komodo dragon babies are hatching, and scientists at the Denver Zoo are making sure they get a head start on life.
https://link.theplatform.com/s/ngs/media/guid/2423130747/6ab08380-8b16-4281-b712-02fcde6072c9
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https://www.nationalgeographic.com/photo-of-the-day/media-spotlight/pineapple-hawaii-factory-honolulu
2021-09-03T20:25:37.177000+00:00
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Fruit Factory
https://www.nationalgeographic.com/photo-of-the-day/media-spotlight/flowers-imperial-valley-california
2021-09-03T20:25:03.393000+00:00
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Flower Farm
https://www.nationalgeographic.com/photo-of-the-day/media-spotlight/lions-etosha-park-namibia
2021-09-03T20:24:21.686000+00:00
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Lounging Lionesses
https://www.nationalgeographic.com/environment/article/new-orleans-levees-passed-their-first-major-test
2021-09-03T20:44:31.923000+00:00
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On the morning after Hurricane Ida in New Orleans, Shannan Delage and her son Daniel Delage pick up oak branches from their yard and the road in front of their home.
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A closed flood gate on Lakeshore Drive in New Orleans.
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On August 31, floodwaters still surrounded a new levee under construction in Myrtle Grove, Plaquemines Parish, Louisiana.
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A hole in a levee broken in Jesuit Bend, Louisiana is repaired with giant sandbags by Plaquemines Parish staff and the Army National Guard.
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The “Great Wall of Louisiana” was built in 2013 along Lake Borgne to prevent a storm surge from flooding New Orleans, as happened during Hurricane Katrina in 2005. The $1.3 billion barrier was the largest civil-works construction project in the history of the U.S. Army Corps of Engineers.
https://www.nationalgeographic.com/environment/article/wildfires-in-the-west-are-inevitable-but-this-strategy-can-help-control-them
2022-01-28T19:25:33.618000+00:00
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CALFIRE firefighters have spent weeks fighting to contain the Dixie Fire in Northern California. The blaze, which has burned over 844,000 acres, was the first fire to cross from one side of the Sierra Nevada to the other. The Caldor Fire followed suit just days later.
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A firefighter dampens vegetation near Christmas Valley, around the edge of the Caldor Fire.
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CALFIRE firefighter Brett Watkins walks along the fireline, clearing up unburned brush to help prevent embers from spreading the Dixie Fire to other sections of the Lassen National Forest.
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Firefighters protect structures at the Echo Summit near a major road leading out of the Tahoe Basin.
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Firefighters struggled to contain the Caldor Fire before it entered the South Lake Tahoe region, but the combination of heavy fuel loads and extreme fire weather—hot, dry, windy conditions— prevented them from stopping it. The next day evacuation orders were issued for nearby communities.
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Firefighters try to contain the Caldor Fire by cutting a line around its edge, clearing away vegetation in an attempt to “starve” the fire of fuel.
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Specialist Raymond Lamas with the California National Guard catches some shut-eye during a break while cutting a line around the Dixie Fire north of the community of Westwood.
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High-intensity fires that reach into the forest’s crown are particularly dangerous. Treatments that reduce the amount of “ladder fuels”—allowing a fire to climb into the canopy—and other vegetation on the forest floor can help slow fires and contain them to lower areas.
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Smoke from the Caldor Fire rises up over the mountains near Caples Lake, in the Lake Tahoe basin.
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Spotting fires and high winds quickly moved the Caldor Fire through overgrown forest near Strawberry, but firefighters made a push to protect the community’s structures, including the historic Strawberry Lodge.
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A firefighter stands guard by a propane tank at the Sierra at Tahoe ski resort after a fire engulfed a lodge on August 29.
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Firefighters try to protect homes and structures in Northern California as the Caldor Fire ripped toward Lake Tahoe in August.
https://www.nationalgeographic.com/photo-of-the-day/media-spotlight/nebraska-school-sand-hills
2021-09-03T13:11:21.765000+00:00
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Sand Hills
https://www.nationalgeographic.com/photo-of-the-day/media-spotlight/bread-bakery-mexico-milpa-alta
2021-09-03T13:10:16.699000+00:00
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Fresh Bread
https://www.nationalgeographic.com/science/article/will-americans-wear-masks-to-prevent-sickness-beyond-covid-19
2021-09-03T20:11:37.063000+00:00
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Locals line up to get their photos taken in front of a tulip field at Seoul Forest Park.
https://www.nationalgeographic.com/animals/article/franklins-bumblebee-listed-as-endangered
2021-09-03T13:59:33.565000+00:00
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In a rare photo, a Franklin’s bumblebee collects pollen from a lupine on Mt. Ashland, in southern Oregon, in 2000. Found only around the Oregon-California border, the species has one of the smallest ranges of any bee.
Amazing Time-Lapse: Bees Hatch Before Your Eyes
Witness the eerily beautiful growth of larvae into bees in this mesmerizing time-lapse video from photographer Anand Varma. Varma said the six-month project, for which he built a beehive in his workshop, gave him a new respect for the meticulous job of beekeeping.
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https://www.nationalgeographic.com/history/article/how-the-paralympic-movement-evolved-into-major-sporting-event
2021-09-03T15:29:04.233000+00:00
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Jessica Long of Team United States competes during the women’s 4x100m Medley Relay - 34 Points Final where she won the gold medal at the Tokyo 2020 Paralympic Games.
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The Italian team gathers at the Olympic Village before the start of the first international Paralympic Games in Rome, Italy, in 1960. Four hundred athletes from 23 countries participated.
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At the Tokyo 2020 Paralympic Games, Larissa Klaassen and pilot Imke Brommer of Team Netherlands compete in a qualifying session of the Women's B 3000m Individual Pursuit. For this race classification, a sighted cyclist serves as pilot on the tandem bike for a visually impaired teammate.
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Jardenia Felix Barbosa da Silva of Team Brazil celebrates after winning the bronze medal in the Women's 400m - T20 at the 2020 Paralympic Games in Tokyo, Japan. The T20 refers to the race's disability classification.
https://www.nationalgeographic.com/science/article/the-shaky-science-behind-ivermectin-as-a-covid-19-cure
2021-09-02T17:14:06.859000+00:00
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A container of veterinary ivermectin. South Africa is allowing the limited use of ivermectin to treat COVID-19 even though regulators acknowledge there's not enough evidence that it works or is safe for this purpose. Neighboring Zimbabwe has also allowed use of the drug.
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Ivermectin is use to remove worms from livestock, like these cattle on a ranch in Wyoming.
https://www.nationalgeographic.com/history/history-magazine/article/warriors-for-independence-the-trung-sisters
2022-01-26T17:10:06.920000+00:00
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A temple to the Trung sisters was erected in their traditional birthplace, Me Linh, northwest of Hanoi in the Red River Delta.
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This natural wonder is known as the “bay of the descending dragon.” Per legend, the Dragon Lord’s tail created these rocky islands as he descended into the waters off the coast of northern Vietnam.
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The Trung sisters are most often depicted riding war elephants, the largest land mammals on Earth. The Viet have long used elephants—as valued commodities for trade and tribute and as important tools in warfare. One Ly dynasty (1009-1225) emperor even claimed that he was the embodiment of a magical white elephant, making his claim as a universal ruler. Today wild elephants still live in the forests of Vietnam, but their populations are endangered by habitat loss and poach- ing. In the 1990s an estimated 1,500 to 2,000 elephants lived in Vietnam; by 2013 that number was as low as 70. To help reverse the trend, the Elephant Habitat and Species Conservation Area was established in 2017 in Quang Nam with more than 46,000 acres set aside for elephant conservation.
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Little Saigon in Orange County, California, is home to a large Vietnamese-American community and a mural that depicts the origin story of Vietnamese people and the union between the Dragon Lord and Mountain Fairy.
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THERE BE DRAGONS
Dragons often appear in Vietnamese works of art, like a bronze incense burner (above) from the first to third century.
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BRONZE DAGGER
Known for exquisite work in bronze, the Dong Son culture flourished in Vietnam’s Red River Delta between 600 B.C. and A.D. 300.
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LANDS OF VIETNAM
Elephant Ewer Bronze, late second-third century
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Photographed in Saigon in 1957, women portray the Trung sisters in the Hai Ba Trung Parade that honors the national heroines.
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The sister-in-law and de facto first lady of South Vietnam until 1963, Madame Nhu erected a statue of the Trung sisters to strengthen her ties to their legacy, as shown on a 1963 postage stamp (above, Madame Nhu in the foreground).
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For nearly 2,000 years, the Trung sisters and their elephants have been popular subjects in Vietnamese art, like this 1999 embroidery from Tam Coc, Vietnam.
https://www.nationalgeographic.com/travel/article/could-a-boom-in-us-birding-help-fund-conservation
2021-09-02T14:43:47.884000+00:00
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A trio of Atlantic puffins swim off the coast of Maine. Some cruises to see the birds also help to fund their conservation.
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University of New England staffer Lena Moser points to a guidebook in Biddeford, Maine, during a meeting of a club for young birders she helped to found.
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A bird watcher points to a red-tailed hawk in New York’s Central Park during a tour offered by Robert DeCandido, also known as “Birding Bob.”
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A family watches birds together at Alabama’s Dauphin Island Audubon Bird Sanctuary. The COVID-19 pandemic has spurred a boom in bird watching. Conservation advocates hope it leads to more funding for conservation issues.
https://www.nationalgeographic.com/history/article/the-archaeological-treasures-that-survived-911
2022-01-26T17:10:17.182000+00:00
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Smoke rises from the World Trade Center's collapsed North Tower five days after the terror attacks. To the left are the remains of Six World Trade, which was destroyed by falling debris. Six World Trade housed a large archaeology lab that was used to study artifacts unearthed during city construction.
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In the early 1800s, an intersection known as Five Points became notorious for crime, prostitution, and poverty. This 1827 depiction of the slum by McSpedon & Baker was published in Valentine's Manual, a New York City directory.
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This photo, taken for the Board of Health in 1872, is described as depicting the “Dens of Death,” in the Mulberry Bend in Five Points.
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Another 1872 photograph for the Board of Health depicts a home on Baxter Street in Five Points, which at the time was one of the most congested neighborhoods in the world.
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A child’s porcelain teacup discovered by archaeologists in a trash-filled privy belonging to Irish tenants at 474 Pearl Street. Many of the artifacts unearthed in the Five Points dig contradicted the popular view of the neighborhood as a “den of thieves.”
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A clay pipe from 474 Pearl Street.
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The head of a clay pipe excavated in Five Points depicts a figure from classical mythology, possibly a Greek or Roman god.
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Children’s marbles found in Five Points indicated the presence of hard-working families who had the income to buy small luxuries.
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Men stand in front of flophouse. The inhabitants of Five Points were largely Irish and German in the mid-1800s. Visitors and the media used the neighborhood’s seedy reputation as a warning against the rise of immigration.
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School children sit at desks in a crammed classroom at the Five Points Mission. The discovery of children’s toys and fine china during the Five Points excavation signaled to archaeologists that not all families in the neighborhood were destitute.
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In 1991, hundreds of graves of free and enslaved Africans were unearthed during the construction of an office building in New York’s financial district. Today, a monument marks the site where the remains of 419 men, women, and children were reinterred.
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Symbols across the walls of the African Burial Ground National Monument reflect the varied identities of the enslaved Africans that helped build New York City. The monument is the largest and oldest excavated burial site for free and enslaved Africans in North America.
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Images from the excavation of the African Burial Ground show the estimated age and sex of those who were buried there from the 1630s to 1795. Scientists found evidence of skull fractures among the remains that indicate large loads were likely dropped on the heads of enslaved workers at the city’s docks.
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The smoldering wreckage of the World Trade Center as seen on September 25, 2001. The attack killed thousands of New Yorkers and destroyed hundreds of thousands of items of cultural and historic value, including the entire archaeological collection from Five Points.
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Clean-up crews work through the rubble at Ground Zero in November 2001. When the World Trade Center towers crumbled, it was unclear what had happened to nearly a million artifacts that were being stored in the basement of a nearby building.
https://www.nationalgeographic.com/magazine/article/5-earth-friendly-ways-to-wash-your-dishes
2022-06-20T15:20:14.530000+00:00
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Among eco-friendly tips for doing the dishes: Using the dishwasher saves water compared to most hand-washing methods.
https://www.nationalgeographic.com/environment/article/finally-the-end-of-leaded-gas
2021-09-01T18:36:43.594000+00:00
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Algeria has joined the rest of the world in banning the sale of leaded gasoline.
https://www.nationalgeographic.com/travel/article/europe-may-soon-restrict-us-tourists-again-what-does-that-mean
2021-09-03T15:17:21.626000+00:00
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A masked visitor walks through an exhibit at the Philharmonie de Paris on August 20, 2021. France now requires people to show proof of vaccination against COVID-19 to enter museums, cafes, and restaurants.
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A woman shows her French Pass Sanitaire in Bordeaux in August 2021. The digital certificates prove COVID-19 vaccination and are now required for entrance to all French restaurants and museums.
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A line for rapid COVID-19 tests forms near the Eiffel Tower in Paris on August 20, 2021. France instituted a digital Pass Sanitaire proving vaccination earlier this year, which is required to enter restaurants, museums, and other attractions nationwide.
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Masked diners and a masked server are pictured chatting at Venice, Italy’s Cafe Florian recently. The European Council, the European Union’s governing body, recently advised its 27 member states to block nonessential travel from United States citizens. The ruling may have little effect on vaccinated travelers, though.
https://www.nationalgeographic.com/animals/article/pandas-are-off-chinas-endangered-list-but-threats-persist
2021-09-02T14:13:55.378000+00:00
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China's forests have been cleared of many large predators, which has allowed prey species, such as the Sichuan takin and northern Chinese boar, to proliferate.
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Giant pandas only exist in one percent of their former range, much of which is protected in reserves.
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A captive giant panda and her cub explore their enclosure at the Wolong China Conservation and Research Center in Sichuan Province.
Giant Pandas 101
Giant pandas' habitat in the wild today is limited to the mountains of China, but their appetite remains unlimited. They spend nearly every waking moment eating bamboo. Learn about giant pandas and how their diet shapes their lives.
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https://www.nationalgeographic.com/photo-of-the-day/media-spotlight/tibet-king-china-history
2021-09-01T13:38:14.465000+00:00
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King of Derge
https://www.nationalgeographic.com/science/article/why-some-covid-19-infections-may-be-free-of-symptoms-but-not-free-of-harm
2021-09-01T13:18:13.201000+00:00
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Dr. Hector Bonilla examines Rosie Flores at Stanford's long COVID clinic in Palo Alto, California, on June 21, 2021.
https://www.nationalgeographic.com/culture/article/stuck-at-the-border-migrant-mothers-confront-toughened-us-policies
2021-09-01T15:43:39.598000+00:00
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The view of Juárez, Mexico, from El Paso, Texas, is of a crowded industrial city. The Rio Grande and a wall divide the border’s second-largest urban area. The two cities are connected by a series of bridges, which transport tens of thousands of students, commuters, and visitors each day. The border is a bustling economic zone with some 2.5 million inhabitants combined. Many families have been separated as enforcement tightens up to prevent crossings.
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This woman traveled from Honduras with her three daughters to escape gang violence after her husband was killed. She has been volunteering at Kiki Romero migrant shelter, a gym that was converted in April to accommodate the hundred-plus migrants a day arriving in Juárez under Title 42, a policy that allows immediate expulsion of migrants caught trying to cross into the United States. (She requested she not be identified by name for fear that it could jeopardize her asylum request.)
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With help from a non-profit immigration law firm, Ivana Turcios was able to cross into the United States with her three-year-old son, Sneijder. Before that they stayed in Pan de Vida, a migrant shelter on the outskirts of Juárez, Mexico. Few migrants are able to request asylum under Title 42, a policy implemented by former President Donald Trump and left unchanged by President Joe Biden. Turcios entered the country with humanitarian parole, an exemption given because her son suffers from epilepsy.
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Every night this past spring, dozens of families waited to be checked into the Kiki Romero shelter after being expelled from the United States. New arrivals at the shelter, still in the clothing given to them while in U.S. detention centers, receive donated clothes, blankets, and dishes before being assigned a bunk. Here, a migrant mother carries her mentally disabled child.
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Ofelia Primero Hernández lives at the Pan de Vida shelter while deciding on her next steps. Many of the migrants living at shelters in Juárez are waiting with the hope that the U.S. immigration policy will soften and they will be allowed to cross the border. Some may decide to permanently stay in Mexico or return to their countries.
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Santos sits outside the rented home she shares with other Central American mothers on the outskirts of Juárez. Last August, desperate to get her daughter into the United States, Santos sent her across the border alone to join her family in Oregon. She was later able to cross and reunite with her daughter. (Santos requested that only her first name be used for fear it could jeopardize her pending asylum request.)
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Kiki Romero is a state-run shelter that opened on April 5, 2021, to respond to the increasing number of migrants returned from the United States to Mexico under Title 42. The policy was implemented during the start of the COVID-19 pandemic and allows for the expulsion of any migrant caught crossing illegally into the U.S. At Kiki Romero, migrants are allowed to stay for one week and then are transferred to a more permanent shelter.
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Ana Lidia Chama Castro, a 20-year-old migrant from Guatemala recently arrived to Kiki Romero with her young son. In the parking lot next to the gym—now filled with dorm beds—she washes their clothes and waits to be relocated to a more permanent shelter.
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A Honduran mother poses with her two daughters outside the Kiki Romero shelter, where she lives and also volunteers as a nurse. She left her homeland because she spent five years unable to find a job. She tells her daughters to be patient and they’ll try again. “It’s hard to access education,” she says of Honduras. “If you can’t pay there’s no good options.” (The mother requested that she not be identified by name for fear it could jeopardize her pending asylum request.)
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Pan de Vida was converted from a women’s shelter to a migrant shelter three years ago. Its founder, Ismael Martínez, hosts 260 people, including many families, with donations and help from the Mexican government. Often, migrants will turn up after being turned back by Border Patrol agents at the Rio Grande, arriving wet and exhausted at the shelter’s gate in the middle of the night.
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Nineteen-year-old Isabela Mateo Yac, from Guatemala, holds her year-and-a-half son, Anderson, outside El Buen Pastor shelter in Juárez. The shelter is run by a local church. Martha Esquivel, a local volunteer who helps teach sewing skills, says of the migrants: “They come with un sueño prometido”—a promised dream. They want to reach a place of honey and milk.”
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In this room at Pan de Vida, Ivana Turcios and her son, Sneijder, spent their last night waiting to be allowed to cross the U.S. border under a humanitarian parole. Upon arrival in El Paso, mother and son quarantined for the required 14 days before traveling on to Chicago, where Turcios’ mother lives. Her mother migrated to the U.S. 15 years ago, and the two haven’t seen each other since.
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Mexican soldiers in Juárez guard the area where the border wall ends at a hill. The soldiers say they stop migrants from crossing but do not arrest them. El Paso lies just on the other side of the border, and often, Customs and Border Protection helicopters can be seen flying overhead.
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The Mexican military often patrols the area near the border, where wires are used as ladders by human smugglers so that migrants can climb over the wall and into the United States.
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A bag from the U.S. Customs and Border Protection holds a migrant’s possessions at the Kiki Romero shelter in Juárez. New arrivals to the shelter this past spring were often coming straight from U.S. custody and still wore the sweatpants and sweatshirts given to them while in detention.
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The border wall wraps over the uneven terrain that divides Juárez and El Paso. In older parts of the wall there are areas that have been cut out by smugglers and later patched up. Customs and Border Protection agents in white trucks are often visible on the other side.
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Life is tenuous for many migrants in Juárez, where crime is high and work can be hard to find. At the Pan de Vida shelter, a large outdoor space means migrant children are able to play and run as their parents negotiate the next steps of their journey.
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Footprints in the desert near the border wall in Juárez indicate a busy path for smugglers and migrants on the route into the U.S. Discarded clothing is scattered around the shrubbery. The border is seeing its busiest time in the past 20 years for illegal crossings.
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In a dangerous neighborhood in Juárez, Hector Trejo shelters migrants in his evangelical church. Migrants face a variety of threats in Mexico, particularly kidnapping, extortion, and sexual violence. The high fences around the church protect the residents of Trejo’s shelters.
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In this neighborhood on the outskirts of Juárez, a group of Central American mothers rented a home after being sent back to Mexico to wait for their asylum hearings. When their court dates were canceled due to the COVID-19 pandemic, some of the women decided to send their children alone across the border to reunite with their families in the U.S.
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A migrant prays at a Sunday Mass given by the Rev. Hector Trejo, who runs two shelters in Juárez.
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A Guatemalan mother sits outside the house she rented with a group of Central American mothers who met in a shelter in Juárez. She traveled from home with her son, who has a developmental disability, leaving six children behind with her husband. She’d hoped to join her sister in New Jersey and find work to support the family. As the COVID-19 pandemic stretched on, she sent her son across the border alone in August 2020. (She requested she not be identified by name for fear that it could jeopardize her asylum request.)
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Juárez has one of the highest crime rates in Mexico, and migrants are seen as easy targets. They can easily become victims of extortion and kidnapping. Femicides have nearly doubled in the past few years, making it a particularly dangerous place for women.
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The streets of Juárez turn to sand as the city stretches on. Many of the migrant shelters are located in less desirable neighborhoods, and security is a top concern. Some, like the Kiki Romero shelter, set up near police stations to dissuade coyotes, or human smugglers, from looking for clients among newly arrived migrants.
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Ofelia Primero Hernández watches children play in the small cottage she shares with other families at Pan de Vida migrant shelter in Juárez, Mexico. Primero, 32, had been living at the shelter for two months, while her two children were still in Guatemala being cared for by her sister. Due to changing U.S. immigration policy on the border, the city of Juárez is absorbing a large number of migrant women and children.
https://www.nationalgeographic.com/family/article/bringing-out-the-everyday-hero-in-your-child
2021-09-01T15:29:55.188000+00:00
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https://www.nationalgeographic.com/environment/article/photos-hurricane-ida-devastating-impact-on-coastal-louisiana
2021-09-01T18:48:52.115000+00:00
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The fishing community of Leeville, a town just 22 miles north of where Hurricane Ida made landfall in Port Fourchon, was decimated by the storm.
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The community of Pointe-Aux-Chenes in Terrebonne Parish, at the top of the photo, flooded after Hurricane Ida. The neat rows of straight lines in the marsh are a part of a conservation project designed to reduce coastal marsh erosion by limiting the marsh-destroying impact of waves. The effort is led by conservation group Ducks Unlimited and funded by Chevron.
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Flooding inundates a neighborhood in Norco, Louisiana, an industrial town on the banks of the Mississippi River and 25 miles west of New Orleans. Hurricane Ida struck at Port Fourchon, the southernmost port in Louisiana’s large industrial corridor. Ahead of the storm’s landfall, more than 90 percent of oil and gas production in the state had been suspended.
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Grand Isle was on the east side of Hurricane Ida’s eye, the most dangerous position to be in when a hurricane blows through. Six people rode out the storm in a motel that’s now nearly entirely destroyed. They were evacuated by helicopter on Monday, the day after the storm made landfall.
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Isle de Jean Charles in Terrebonne Parish was once on a much wider coastal marsh that was surrounded by healthy wetlands. Now, it’s a strip of houses on a lonely road surrounded by open water. Many of its former residents are members of the Biloxi-Chitimacha-Choctaw Tribe and considered the nation’s first climate refugees. The U.S. Department of Housing and Urban Development has spent $52 million to help residents move off their eroding island.
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Wreckage from the storm shows how high storm surge extended on this levee in Port Sulpher, Plaquemines Parish. Levees in Louisiana are tall, often earthen mounds that serve like walls to protect towns and infrastructure from floods. Several levees in Plaquemines Parish failed, leading to flash flooding.
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After the BP oil spill in 2010, large swaths of brown pelican habitat was damaged. Two years ago, Queen Bess Island was restored as a rookery for Louisiana’s state bird, regarded as a symbol of the Gulf Coast’s resilience. Seen here the day after the storm, the island is flooded; permanent damage has not been assessed.
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Giant pumps at the West Closure Complex in Plaquemines Parish push water away from New Orleans after Hurricane Ida dumped more than a foot of rain over the region. The city’s skyline can be seen in the distance. The complex is part of a $14 billion system of levees, pumps, and floodgates built after Hurricane Katrina to prevent such damage from happening again.
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An oil slick near Barataria Bay, a large area of coastal marshes south of New Orleans in Plaquemines Parish. As of Tuesday, the full extent of damage to offshore oil infrastructure from Hurricane Ida was still unclear.
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An oil slick from leaking infrastructure next to East Timbalier Island in Lafourche Parish. After former president Theodore Roosevelt visited the island in 1915, it became one of the nation’s first wildlife refuges. The state has poured $20 million into saving this island, a buffer between storms and more than 700 oil wells, but it was too damaged by pipelines and canals. The state gave up on trying to save the island last year.
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Elmer’s Island, a town just south of Grand Isle, is home to a popular wildlife refuge that spans its coastal marshes, sand dunes, and beaches. Damage to the region is still unreported.
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Grand Isle in Jefferson Parish, a far south coastal town reachable by only one major highway, is a barrier island that suffered extensive damage from Hurricane Ida. Just how much damage the popular vacation and fishing spot suffered is still being assessed.
https://www.nationalgeographic.com/environment/article/how-climate-change-is-fueling-hurricanes-like-ida
2021-08-31T19:12:51.941000+00:00
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People clear a tree off their property in Bourg, Louisiana on August 30, 2021, the day after Hurricane Ida made landfall. As first responders comb through the damage, the death toll from Hurricane Ida is expected to climb considerably, Louisiana's governor warned Monday.
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The day after Hurricane Ida made landfall in Louisiana as a Category 4 storm, first responders drive a rescue boat through a flooded street in the town of LaPlace. The storm rapidly grew from a Category 1 to a Category 4 storm in less than a day. Strengthening so quickly in so little time may be more common in a Gulf of Mexico warmed by climate change.
https://www.nationalgeographic.com/science/article/planet-9-may-be-closer-and-easier-to-find-than-thought-if-it-exists
2021-08-31T18:48:57.428000+00:00
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Some astronomers believe an undiscovered planet, some six times the mass of Earth, is lurking in the outer reaches of the solar system.
https://www.nationalgeographic.com/travel/article/reeling-from-covid-19-italy-violin-capital-is-rebounding-with-music
2022-01-26T17:10:02.296000+00:00
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The new Stauffer Center for Strings launches in October 2021. The music school and cultural center will be located in a restored 17th-century palace.
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An artisan works on a violin in the workshop of master luthier Giorgio Grisales in Cremona on June 9, 2020.
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A young luthier carves the scroll of a violin in the Cremona, Italy, workshop of master instrument maker Giorgio Grisales.
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A luthier puts a back plate on a violin in a Cremona workshop in September 2017. The plates, which identify both who made the instrument and where, are a point of pride for the craftspeople.
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Students practice at the Stauffer Center for Strings, a new music conservatory located in a restored 17th-century palace in Cremona, Italy.
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Violin maker Daniele Tonarelli is one of more than 150 luthiers based in Cremona. Although the COVID-19 pandemic hit this Italian city hard, a new music conservatory may help revive the economy and bring tourists back.
https://www.nationalgeographic.com/photo-of-the-day/media-spotlight/carnival-ontario-michigan-detroit
2021-08-31T13:19:26.207000+00:00
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Across the Border
https://www.nationalgeographic.com/culture/article/thousands-demand-the-us-protect-voting-rights-under-fire
2021-08-31T16:51:02.796000+00:00
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Participants in the March On for Voting Rights in Washington, D.C. hold signs that say Black Votes Matter and Stop Voter Repression as they head to the National Mall to rally for voter protection legislation.
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In this archival photograph from Aug. 28, 1963, civil rights leaders including Martin Luther King, Jr. (center front row) take part in the March on Washington, also known as the March on Washington for Jobs and Freedom, to draw attention to continuing challenges and inequalities faced by African Americans a century after emancipation. It was also when King delivered the now-iconic I Have A Dream speech.
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Grammy Award-winning gospel singer-songwriter Le’Andria Johnson performs at the March On for Voting Rights event held at Pilgrim Rest Baptist Church in Phoenix, Arizona. Marches took place in several cities across the nation to protest Supreme Court rulings and various state-level legislation, which organizers say weaken the Voting Rights Act Of 1965 and threaten to push America back to the Jim Crow era.
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Linda Hall, 62, stands for a portrait at the March On for Voting Rights event at Pilgrim Rest Baptist Church in Phoenix, Arizona. I’m a believer in teamwork. That means we can’t depend on someone else to do what we should do ourselves. And that doesn’t mean that you should be an individual and you’re by yourself. If you do it, I do it, we do it.”
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Ema Angulo Rodríguez, 19, sits for a portrait after performing and working at the March On for Voting Rights event in Phoenix, Arizona. She says she will not claim a thing that is not filled to the brim with liberation. If ignorance is bliss, may I never know peace.
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Matthew Yatsayte, 25, of Tempe, Arizona stands for a portrait at the March On for Voting Rights event held in Phoenix. Yatsayte, who is Navajo and Zuni, was working at a booth for Arizona Deserves Better. The main thing that I’m out here for is to help protect our voice as Indigenous people, as the original folks who were here. Also we didn’t always have the option to vote until more recently so we’re trying to still protect that. It’s a fragile path but we’re still trying to protect that as recent as it is. Coming from a rural area, having ease of access to get registered, to be able to vote, to make sure my voice gets heard means a lot.
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Rivko Knox, 83, collects signatures for the Stop Dirty Money petition at the March On for Voting Rights event in Phoenix. Current Arizona law allows anonymous campaign contributions of any amount. “I’ve been doing this kind of stuff since I was in my 20s. And my philosophy is, we don’t give up. I am an intellectual pessimist but an operational optimist. So, I may wake up in the morning and think, 'oh it’s useless.' But then I say, 'I’ll go out and collect signatures.' I mean it’s like, what is the option? I’m not going to crawl into a hole and, you know. So I’m gonna do what I can do in my limited way and I encourage everyone to do their small bit.”
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Demonstrators stop at a mural in honor of the late civil rights activist and former U.S. Rep. John Lewis during a March On for Voting Rights event in Atlanta, Georgia marking the 58th anniversary of the March on Washington. Voting rights advocates rallied across the country to call for sweeping protections against a further erosion of the Voting Rights Act of 1965.
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Family members of the late American statesman and civil rights activist John R. Lewis pose for a photograph after speaking at the March On for Voting Rights rally in Washington, D.C. From left to right are Lewis' nephew, Ron Lewis, 47, and brothers Samuel Lewis, 72, and Henry Lewis, 69. John Lewis, a Georgia Democrat, died on July 17, 2020 of pancreatic cancer.
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John Lewis, chairman of the Student Nonviolent Coordinating Committee, speaks at the Lincoln Memorial during the March on Washington on Aug. 28, 1963. Also known as the March on Washington for Jobs and Freedom, or The Great March on Washington, the gathering was to advocate for the civil and economic rights of African Americans.
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A group of voters line up outside a polling station at the Sugar Shack small store in Peachtree, Alabama, to cast their votes on May 3, 1966, a year after the Voting Rights Act was passed.
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American civil rights demonstrators approach the Capitol building in Montgomery, Alabama, at the end of a historic march that began in Selma to protest the blocking of Black Americans' right to vote and sweeping violations of African Americans' civil rights.
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Birmingham, Alabama residents Terry G. Collins, 73, and Hezekiah Jackson, 65, pose for a portrait at the March On for Voting Rights rally in Washington, D.C. We both grew up in Birmingham. We remember the church bombing and I was a part of the march that happened in Birmingham for civil rights in 1963, says Collins. Our hope for today is that Congress will realize that this country will be what it's supposed to be. It's supposed to stand for equal rights and for anyone who is a citizen to be able to vote. We want the millennials to understand that we have unfinished business.
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Marchers pass the Washington Monument en route to the National Mall during the March On for Voting Rights event held in various cities across the nation on Aug. 28. The simultaneous gatherings took place on the 58th anniversary of the 1963 March On Washington when Martin Luther King, Jr. delivered his I Have A Dream speech. In 2021, 18 states have enacted 30 new laws that restrict voter access. The laws establish harsher voter ID requirements and make mail-in voting and early voting more challenging, among other restrictions, which protest organizers say, amount to shameful, outright voter suppression. Here, participants hold signs from two different eras, each speaking to the urgency in protecting voting rights.
https://www.nationalgeographic.com/travel/article/see-dismalites-light-up-dismal-canyon-natural-area
2022-01-26T17:10:10.796000+00:00
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Glowing like constellations of stars, dismalites shine from the wet, moss-covered rock faces of Dismals Canyon in Alabama.
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Dismalites, the larve of bioluminescent Orfelia fultoni, steals the show during early spring and midautumn at Alabama’s Dismals Canyon. Designated a National Natural Landmark in 1974, the canyon is one of a few places to see the small insects glow.
Amazing Time-Lapse of Blue Glowworms in New Zealand
Travel bloggers captured incredible video of glowworms—and avoided eels—in New Zealand’s Waitomo Caves. Learn the story about how the video was made at natgeo.com/travel.Video courtesy of Stoked for Saturday
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2021-08-30T13:11:25.046000+00:00
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Quiet Beach
https://www.nationalgeographic.com/environment/article/how-hurricane-ida-could-reshape-new-orleans
2021-08-30T20:32:55.623000+00:00
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A view of San Francisco's Sacramento Street after a catastrophic earthquake hit in 1906. Despite the destruction to the city, San Francisco, a growing city before the quake, was able to continue growing.
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Hurricane Betsey struck New Orleans in 1965, causing immense damage and swamping portions of the city.
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Refugees from Hurricane Betsy wait in a long line to file for relief benefits at a temporary Red Cross office in New Orleans on September 15, 1965. Hundreds were homeless in the aftermath of the storm.
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Earl B. Mathews holds his dog amid the ruins of his apartment building, destroyed when Hurricane Camille hit Mississippi on August 19, 1969.
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When Hurricane Katrina struck New Orleans in 2005, water spilled over the city's levees, leading to deadly floods inside the city. Here, water overtops a levee along the Inner Harbor Navigational Canal in New Orleans.
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Hurricane Katrina did not impact all the residents of New Orleans equally. In the lower ninth ward, a predominantly Black, low-income neighborhood, many still have not recovered from the hurricane that struck 16 years ago.
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As Hurricane Ida's outer rain bands hit New Orleans on Sunday, a group of people walk through the New Orleans French District. The storm made landfall on Sunday afternoon as a Category 4 storm with 150 mile per hour winds.
https://www.nationalgeographic.com/family/article/why-city-trees-can-be-good-for-kids-brains
2022-02-23T16:27:31.721000+00:00
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https://www.nationalgeographic.com/environment/article/photos-show-hurricane-ida-slamming-louisiana
2021-08-30T17:58:18.336000+00:00
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Vehicles drive past a petrol chemical plant near Highway 61 in Norco, Louisiana, on August 30, 2021 after Hurricane Ida made landfall. The Category 4 storm battered the southern state, leaving at least one dead and knocking out power for more than a million people, including the entire city of New Orleans.
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A man helps a stranded motorist in floodwaters on Beach Boulevard in Biloxi, Mississippi. Hurricane Ida made landfall in Louisiana and brought flooding and wind damage along the Gulf Coast.
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New Orleans Firefighters assess damage as they look through debris after a building collapsed from the effects of Hurricane Ida, Monday, Aug. 30, 2021, in New Orleans, La. All of New Orleans lost power right around sunset Sunday as the hurricane blew ashore on the 16th anniversary of Katrina, leading to an uneasy night of pouring rain and howling wind. The weather died down shortly before dawn.
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Montegut Fire Chief Toby Henry walks back to his fire truck in the rain as firefighters cut through trees on the road in Bourg, Louisiana as Hurricane Ida made its presence known. The powerful Category 4 storm struck the coast of Louisiana with 150 mph winds and was later downgraded to a tropical storm though still classified as extremely dangerous by the National Hurricane Center.
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New Orleans Police Detective Alexander Reiter looks over debris on Monday from a building that collapsed during Hurricane Ida in New Orleans. The storm knocked out power to all of New Orleans and inundated coastal Louisiana communities on a deadly path through the Gulf Coast that is still unfolding and promises more destruction.
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Hotel staff brace a door to keep it from opening in high winds after the hotel lost power in New Orleans, Louisiana during Hurricane Ida. The Department of Homeland Security said the storm battered the southern state of Louisiana.
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The downtown skyline along Canal Street in New Orleans is largely shrouded in darkness as electricity throughout Orleans Parish was knocked out by Hurricane Ida. Some relied on generators to light buildings. There is concern that the electrical grid could take weeks to repair. Ida blasted though Louisiana 16 years to the day after Hurricane Katrina wreaked havoc.
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Vehicles are damaged after the front of a building collapsed during Hurricane Ida on August 29, 2021 in New Orleans, Louisiana.
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A man passes by a section of roof that was blown off of a building by Hurricane Ida in the French Quarter area of New Orleans.
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A man uses his cell phone to take pictures of high waves along the shore of Lake Pontchartrain in southeastern Louisiana as Hurricane Ida nears landfall on Aug. 29, 2021. Ida arrived on the 16-year anniversary of Hurricane Katrina, a Category 3 storm that ravaged the Gulf Coast. Katrina killed more than 1,800 people and left an estimated $100 billion worth of damage in its wake.
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Traffic moves bumper to bumper along I-10 West as residents evacuate towards Texas before the arrival of Hurricane Ida in Vinton, Louisiana. Photograph taken with a drone.
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Ann Colette Boudreaux comforts her grandson, Abel, ahead of Hurricane Ida in New Orleans, Louisiana. Ida barreled through Louisiana after making landfall as a powerful Category 4 hurricane Sunday afternoon.
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A young girl blocks her face from the wind and rain produced by Hurricane Ida in New Orleans, Louisiana.
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Utility workers battle the wind from Hurricane Ida as they wait for the storm to pass to begin repairs in New Orleans, Louisiana. Ida made landfall on Sunday southwest of New Orleans.
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A news crew documents effects from Hurricane Ida as storm surge pushes water from Lake Pontchartrain over Lakeshore Drive in New Orleans on August 29, 2021.
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A person seeks shelter at a train stop ahead of Hurricane Ida's arrival in New Orleans, Louisiana.
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Terry Shelvin loads a case of water and food into his car in Lafayette, Louisiana as Hurricane Ida approaches on Sunday.
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Jean-Luc Bourg, 8, catches a spider in front of his sister Olivia, 10, as his parents Jean Paul and Christina enjoy a glass of wine after boarding up their property in preparation for Hurricane Ida in Morgan City, Louisiana.
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Crews reopen a levee flood gate across Louisiana Route 1 after motorists missed a closure deadline and became trapped ahead of Hurricane Ida in Golden Meadow, Louisiana.
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A man bikes along the Mississippi River near the French Quarter as the sun rises and the early effects of Hurricane Ida are felt before landfall at Port Fourchon, Louisian shortly before 1 p.m. eastern standard time on Sunday as a Category 4 storm with 145 mph winds.
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Rain soaks a wall of sandbags in Montegut, Louisiana before Hurricane Ida makes landfall on August 29, 2021.
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Angelina Coxum walks down a street in Kenner, Louisiana flooded by Hurricane Ida to check on a relative’s home. Ida made landfall as a Category 4 storm on Sunday but the aftermath effects, including flooding and power outages, continued through Monday.
https://www.nationalgeographic.com/culture/article/for-afghan-women-20-years-of-gains-face-an-uncertain-future
2021-08-30T04:42:17.381000+00:00
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Women shop at the market in Faizabad, the capital of Badakhshan Province, on April 10, 2021. Exactly four months later, the small northeastern city fell to the Taliban.
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Soraya stirs a pot of food in her home this past spring in preparation for Khatm-i Quran, a ceremony in honor of the dead in which one family hosts all the men from a village or neighborhood.
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Nazdana (center), her husband, and his extended family fled fighting in their village last winter. By February 28, 2021, they had settled in a crowded house on the outskirts of Kandahar, Afghanistan’s second largest city, which the Taliban captured on August 13.
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Kabul streets are lined with concrete blast barriers, a sign of the precarious security situation even before the Taliban captured the city.
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Male and female students squeeze into a lecture hall at Mawoud Academy in Kabul on March 20, 2021. More than two years earlier a suicide bomber in an algebra class killed at least 40 students, most of them from the Hazara ethnic minority group.
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Decrying Nowruz as a pagan holiday, the Taliban banned the spring festival when the Islamist group first ruled. Last March thousands of people attended a celebration in Nalij village in Daikundi province.
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On December 1, 2020, students take their end-of-term exams in English class in Khandud, in the district of Wakhan in the province of Badakhshan.
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Mina Rezai takes a driving lesson in Kabul on February 15, 2021. While female drivers remain a minority on the streets of Kabul, there has been a rise in the number of women passing their driving test in recent years. Outside of Kabul, women drivers are still taboo.
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Outside the woman-owned Simple Cafe in Kabul, high school girls sell crafts, woodwork, and accessories on February 13, 2021. An entire generation of largely urban Afghans has grown up with basic liberties that the Taliban forbade during the 1990s.
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Fakhria helps her mother stretch at their Kabul home on February 16, 2021. Fakhria and her husband founded a yoga studio in 2016, which became a safe haven for more than 500 students.
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Singer Aryana Saeed gets her hair tended to by her personal make-up artist as her fiance Hasib Sayed takes pictures for her social media accounts before recording an episode of “Afghan Star,” a talent quest TV show, on February 18, 2021. Threats against the show forced her and other participants to stay in a safe house during production. Saeed and Sayed fled Afghanistan on August 17.
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An Indian music video playing on Afghan television on March 1, 2021, at Cafe Delight in Aino Maina in Kandahar province is censored to hide the performers’ bare skin.
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Young women attend a taping of the television show “Afghan Star,” a show that scouts for musical talent across Afghanistan, on February 18, 2021. Threats against the station, TOLO TV, were serious enough that judges and participants stayed in a safehouse while taping the season.
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Artist Rada Akbar was forced to cancel her art exhibition Abarzanan, or Superwomen, celebrating trailblazing Afghan women due to security concerns. Instead, she streamed a video honoring victims of terrorist attacks. “For me it’s insulting and disrespectful when people look at [Afghan women] as if we came into existence in 2001,” she says. “The world needs to know about the history of women in Afghanistan.” After Kabul fell, Akbar escaped to Paris.
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In Kandahar on March 1, 2021, women line up to register at an office of the Department of Refugees and Repatriation. Most of the internally displaced people arriving then were from Arghandab and Panjwai districts where the Taliban had been advancing for months.
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Students from Daikundi province walk to the campus of the only public university in the region, which sits on top of a mountain outside the city of Nili. Students who can’t afford to take a minivan or motorbike walk for one to two hours daily to reach the school.
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In Bamiyan province, student scouts from grade 10 and 11 get ready for a bell ringing ceremony. Each year on the first day of the school a bell is rung simultaneously across 35 provinces of Afghanistan.
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Fatima, 25, and Zeinab, 21, (right) attend the opening of a new boutique in March, 2021. Zeinab is a saleswoman and Fatima is a TV presenter and social media influencer. The sisters hold differing religious beliefs, but work together as well: last year they started a cafe.
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Women and girls gather on the outskirts of Kohna Deh village in Nili District to wash clothes, blankets, and textiles the day before Nowruz in a tradition known as Khana Tekaani or house shaking.
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Members of the Momtaz Yoga Studio picnic and practice yoga at the Chihilsottun Palace in Kabul. The founder of the studio started it out of the office of an IT studio and it became a hub for more than 500 students.
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Thousands of people celebrating the spring festival of Nowruz travel hours or days to a remote Afghan village called Nalij. The village has hosted a celebration for perhaps over a hundred years. Under Taliban rule, the holiday was banned for its pagan traditions.
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For Afghan women, 20 years of gains face an uncertain future under a new Taliban regime.
https://www.nationalgeographic.com/environment/article/climate-change-comes-for-favorite-summer-pastime-fishing
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Chad Brown shows Stephen Green (front) how to fly-fish on the Clackamas River near Portland, Oregon. Brown leads Love Is King, an organization that empowers people of color to feel welcome in the outdoors. The number of Black fishers in the United States is growing.
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A Trout Unlimited team drains Upper Independence Creek, in the Sierra Nevada. To preserve a rare native population of Lahontan cutthroat trout, the team is culling intruders: hybrids carrying the genes of rainbow trout. Until the 1960s, California stocked nearby Independence Lake with such non-native fish.
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Kalispell, Montana, is a gateway to Glacier National Park and to some of the best fly-fishing in the world, on the Flathead River. Outdoor recreation pumps about $2 billion a year into Montana’s economy. Rainbow trout are plentiful in the state’s rivers—but they’re non-natives, introduced by people.
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Fly-fishing guide Hilary Hutcheson (center) and daughters Ella (at left) and Delaney stand in the Middle Fork of the Flathead River, near their home in Montana. Watching climate change affect the river impelled Hutcheson to activism. She has lobbied government officials to get them to address the problem.
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Peering into an Oregon creek, “super excited to get into the headspace of a beaver,” Northwest Youth Corps member Hannah Clifford builds a faux beaver dam near the Grande Ronde River. The Trout Unlimited program aims to slow the flow of water in the creek to attract spawning salmon and steelhead trout.
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Aquatic ecologist Clint Muhlfeld studies westslope cutthroat trout in the Flathead River. He’s found that climate change is helping rainbow trout spread upstream and hybridize with the native cutthroat. In the hybrids, you see a dramatic decline in fitness, he says. So that’s a major concern.
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Aquatic ecologist Clint Muhlfeld studies westslope cutthroat trout in the Flathead River. He’s found that climate change is helping rainbow trout spread upstream and hybridize with the native cutthroat. In the hybrids, you see a dramatic decline in fitness, he says. So that’s a major concern.
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New fishers get the experience of wading on a rocky riverbed during a Love Is King outing on the Clackamas. The organization was founded in 2020, it says, out of a conviction that the freedom to roam in nature is a basic human right—one that’s often impeded by racism and low income.
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During a severe drought last year, U.S. Geological Survey hydrologist Brandon Overstreet records the flow and temperature in the Donner und Blitzen River. A camera mounted on the pole documents the appearance of the landscape.
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The Donner und Blitzen terminates in Malheur Lake, in the Malheur National Wildlife Refuge—an important stopover for migrating birds. Last year the water level was so low that you could see the tracks of wading birds in the mud.
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Joseph Metzler, a retired Coast Guard rescue swimmer, spearfishes in Oregon’s Coquille River for smallmouth bass—an introduced species that competes with native fish and recently was declared fair game. The bass thrive in warming waters.
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A large redband trout (at right) swims among mountain whitefish in the Donner und Blitzen River, in the high desert of eastern Oregon. A designated wilderness, the river is a redband reserve. Warming waters and low flows have forced restrictions on fishing.
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Justin Futch and son Zade of the Coquille Indian Tribe spearfish for smallmouth bass on the Coquille River. Futch, who carved the canoe himself, fishes to feed his family and to feel his heritage. “The river is at the heart of the Coquille people,” says tribe biologist Helena Linnell.
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Brook trout prepare to spawn in fall in a northwestern Virginia stream. They’re the state fish—but climate change threatens the cold water they need.
https://www.nationalgeographic.com/photo-of-the-day/media-spotlight/montana-glacier-national-park
2021-08-27T20:15:36.845000+00:00
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Lake Days
https://www.nationalgeographic.com/photo-of-the-day/media-spotlight/civil-rights-march-washington
2021-08-27T20:14:59.438000+00:00
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March on Washington
https://www.nationalgeographic.com/science/article/why-donating-covid-19-booster-shots-isnt-that-easy
2021-08-27T16:13:36.096000+00:00
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Workers unload more than three million doses of Sinovac vaccines from a truck under police escort in Surabaya, Indonesia, on January 4, 2021.
https://www.nationalgeographic.com/environment/article/how-many-natural-disasters-can-one-city-endure
2021-08-28T17:52:35.094000+00:00
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After struggling to find a contractor to rebuild their home, John and Judy Jolivette now hope to move into their new house this November. In the meantime, the couple is living in a 30x30 shed on their property that has been retrofitted with air conditioning, electricity, and running water. The Jolivettes say they love their neighborhood, but if a hurricane were to ever destroy their home again, they would likely move. “I just pray that we don’t ever have another hurricane. It’s hard to think about it,” says Judy.
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casey-clears-trees
Two months after Hurricane Laura damaged his house on August 27, Casey Brown clears more debris left by Hurricane Delta, a storm that struck Lake Charles on October 4. In February, Lake Charles was hit by a rare winter storm, and in May, a 1,000-year flood.
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devine-and-camie
A few weeks after Devinne Leger and Camie Duplechainhe repaired the damage to their home done after Hurricane Laura, a tornado touched down in their home in Iowa, Louisiana. Leger was ejected from her home, sustaining only a few bruises and scrapes.
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On Charles and Valerie Bourgeois’s farm in Iowa, Louisiana, Hurricane Laura destroyed their barns, but the roughly 700 beef cattle they raise survived. The couple chose not to evacuate and say the hurricane sounded like a loud, rumbling train as it passed over them.
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Windows were blown out in the 22-story Capital One Tower in downtown Lake Charles. Currently, the building’s windows are still boarded up and entrances have been blocked, a visible reminder of the work still needed to rebuild the storm-battered city.
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Two months after Hurricane Laura and a month after Hurricane Delta, spray paint on the side of a building shows the region hasn't given up. Southwest Louisiana is the home of Cajun culture, a uniquely southern permutation of French-Canadian dialect and cuisine. “We have a very close-knit sense of community here. Our downtown and festival atmosphere is very well known and celebrated,” says Lake Charles Mayor Nic Hunter.
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On the first Sunday after Hurricane Laura made landfall, Pastor Frederick Lafleur held an outdoor service in the parking lot of The Church at Lake Charles. A handful of members from his congregation gathered around him, broadcasting the sermon on Facebook for other church members to see. Pastor Lafleur has been preaching at his church since 1997 and says it was important to keep preaching that Sunday to “offer a word of hope” to his destroyed city.
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In the parking lot at the Church at Lake Charles, Linda Marie Davis prays during a service. Behind her, an uprooted tree is still strewn over a house three months after Hurricane Laura and a month after Hurricane Delta. The church is in the northern half of the city where low-income and minority residents are concentrated and efforts to rebuild have been slower.
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Lake Charles residents LaShonda and Soney Lafleur host a birthday party for their daughters Alayna, Alyssa, and Hannah at Prien Lake Park. In Calcasieu Parish, enrollment was down 4,000 students this fall because of inadequate housing, according to the Calcasieu Parish school board.
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Brandy Bushnell’s son Jayden rests on one of the family’s horses at their home in Iowa, Louisiana. During Hurricane Laura, they lost two of their four horses, they think from tornadoes that touched down during the storm.
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Kayzia Jack graduates from Barbe High School on May 23, 2021. Due to the COVID-19 pandemic, this ceremony is the first time since March 2021 that the students have gathered in full. Due to historic flooding in Lake Charles, the Barbe High School was forced to relocate graduation to Sulphur High School in Sulphur, Louisiana.
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Hurricane Thomas was born at home in 1957 as Hurricane Audrey, the seventh deadliest storm to strike the U.S., swept over southwest Louisiana. Hurricane has lost three roofs to hurricanes, and days after Hurricane Laura destroyed his home, he looks out into a pasture where his third roof landed. Though they've lived in Iowa most of their lives, if another storm hits, they say they're likely to relocate.
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A school bus picks up Debbie and Hurricane's grandchildren. When they finally moved into their reconstructed home in July, Debbie says, “We were all happy. I think the kids were more happy than us. They were running all over the place.”
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Debbie Thomas and her husband Hurricane have dinner with three of their grandsons at their home in Iowa, Louisiana. With their home in disrepair, their carport became their new living space where they shared meals and the kids played. To celebrate moving into their new home, Debbie made a gumbo.
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Moving into their new home has been bittersweet for the Thomases. Debbie says she still misses her old house. It's where she married hurricane, where her kids grew up, and where her grandkids grew up. On the new house, she wrote scriptures on the studs. Her favorite, she says, is: As far as me and my house, we will serve the Lord.
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Judy Jolivette walks through her home in Iowa, Louisiana. She and her husband John’s roof was damaged by Hurricane Laura, and Hurricane Delta finished the job. “I don’t think we’ll ever be normal,” says Judy. “Not just one storm but two. Then the ice storm. The flood. So many things happened to us back-to-back.”
https://www.nationalgeographic.com/photo-of-the-day/media-spotlight/palmyra-syria-ancient-ruins
2021-08-27T13:19:15.987000+00:00
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Remains of Palmyra
https://www.nationalgeographic.com/travel/article/travel-to-canyonlands-in-utah-to-see-the-power-of-the-threatened-colorado-river
2022-01-26T17:10:00.552000+00:00
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The Loop, a double oxbow in Canyonlands, highlights the Colorado River’s power to carve its own path. The walls of this dramatic “entrenched meander” are 500 feet tall—about as high as a 50-story building.
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An explorer peeks over into a canyon above the Colorado River in a photo from a 1914 issue of National Geographic Magazine.
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Canyon walls surround hikers eating dinner around a campfire at Lavender Canyon in this archival photo from National Geographic Magazine in 1962.
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The Great Gallery in Horseshoe Canyon holds detailed pictographs (or rock paintings) of life-sized figures painted between 2000 B.C. and A.D. 500 by the Puebloan nomads.
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The wide-open spaces of Canyonalnds National Park provide the ideal backdrop for backcountry camping.
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The sun peeks through Mesa Arch in Canyonlands National Park. The largest and most undeveloped of Utah’s national parks, Canyonlands offers backcountry adventures, scenic landscapes, and two major rivers.
https://www.nationalgeographic.com/animals/article/american-pika-sounds-alarm-for-global-warming
2021-08-26T20:19:10.518000+00:00
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Volunteers attend a training session in the park in June with the Colorado Pika Project. It relies on these community scientists—the Pika Patrol—to help gather data on the animals at 72 sites throughout the Colorado Rockies.
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American pikas are most commonly found high in the mountains—up to 14,000 feet above sea level. Because they’re so fine-tuned to thrive in their environment, they’re affected by even the smallest change in climate.
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During the summer, pikas dash back and forth between their rocky dens and nearby meadows to gather and store grasses that will sustain them through the winter.
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A pika sits in a trap set by researchers in Brainard Lake Recreation Area, Colorado. They’ll take its measurements and vital signs, and attach an ear tag before releasing it.
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Pika researcher Chris Ray (at right) and student Austin Nash (center) measure the tiny back foot of a pika, as student Crystal Gonzalez records the information in a notebook.
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Pika Patrol volunteers, accompanied by Ray (front right) and trainer Patrick Crowell (behind Ray), make their first pika sighting.
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Using an anesthetizing chamber, researchers sedate a pika before taking its measurements.
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The cool microclimate that pikas rely on is the same one that preserves ice—ice that melts late in the summer and flows into creeks and reservoirs, providing water for millions of people. “I think that where pikas are disappearing, we are also losing our subsurface ice,” Rays says. “So [pikas] are like an indicator species for the health of our western watershed.”
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Ray releases a tagged pika close to its hay pile, so it can continue to prepare for winter, which it’ll spend in its den beneath the rocks, sheltered by an insulating blanket of snow.
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A pika in Colorado’s Rocky Mountain National Park heads out of the sun and into a rocky den, where it’s cooler. Adapted to survive high-elevation winters, pikas are especially sensitive to warming summers. The Colorado Pika Project aims to gather as much data as possible to better protect the beloved native species.
https://www.nationalgeographic.com/science/article/as-kids-head-back-to-school-battles-over-masks-are-pitting-parents-against-governors
2021-08-27T22:54:41.905000+00:00
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Anti-mask advocate Heather Tanner, right, tries to persuade Mary Tereilleger, who teaches three-year-olds in Broward County's Head Start program, that students do not need to wear masks when they return to school during a protest outside of a Broward County School Board meeting on Tuesday, Aug. 10, 2021.
https://www.nationalgeographic.com/animals/article/why-some-female-hummingbirds-masquerade-as-males
2021-08-26T14:27:31.329000+00:00
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New research shines light on the benefit of female white-necked jacobins having flashy, colorful plumage like males, instead of their more usual brown.
https://www.nationalgeographic.com/photo-of-the-day/media-spotlight/sami-norway-boy-dog
2021-08-26T13:10:08.985000+00:00
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Dog Days
https://www.nationalgeographic.com/travel/article/fires-feast-on-a-national-park-in-northern-california
2022-01-26T17:10:06.080000+00:00
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Benjamin F. Loomis Historical Photograph Collection:Lassen Peak over Jessen Meadow before mud flow
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Benjamin F. Loomis Historical Photograph Collection:Lassen Peak from head of Lost Creek after mudflow and hot blast with trees on side of Crescent Crater blown away. Hot Rock(large boulder) in foreground, 04/30/1915
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Dozens of old-growth trees were torched by the Dixie Fire near the town of Canyondam, California. The fire’s exact cause is unknown, but it’s being fueled by extremely dry conditions and strong winds.
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Benjamin F. Loomis Historical Photograph Collection:Six successive views of Lassen Peak in eruption seen from Manzanita Chute, 06/13/1914
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Benjamin F. Loomis Historical Photograph Collection:View of Lassen Peak in eruption from downtown Red Bluff, CA
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California’s Dixie Fire, currently the second largest in the state’s history, blazes through Canyondam, a small town near Lassen Volcanic National Park, on August 5, 2021. The wildfire, which destroyed a historic fire outlook from the 1930s, thrust Lassen into national attention.
https://www.nationalgeographic.com/history/history-magazine/article/robert-koch-bacteria-tuberculosis-anthrax-cholera
2021-08-26T15:04:13.751000+00:00
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Robert Koch’s microscope, from his time in Wolsztyn, Poland, ca 1872.
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While studying anthrax, Koch detected shiny, bead-like spores in samples under his microscope. Under certain conditions, the spores grew into the rodlike anthrax bacilli that cause the disease. Such spores can survive in soil for years before springing back to deadly life.
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Tuberculin, developed by Koch in 1890, promised to be a single cure for tuberculosis. Although the drug was not successful, it is now used in testing patients for the disease.
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Robert Koch peers into a microscope in his laboratory around 1900.
When cities were cesspools of disease
Cities have historically been centers of commerce, industry, and...disease. In the early 1800s, cities became so populated and densely packed that diseases began to spread at an unprecedented rate. All hope seemed lost until a series of critical scientific discoveries, which triggered a revolution in urban sanitation and health.
https://link.theplatform.com/s/ngs/media/guid/2423130747/00000172-37ae-de41-a3fa-3fae11170000
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https://www.nationalgeographic.com/family/article/masked-up-kids-may-struggle-to-communicate-heres-how-to-help
2022-01-20T22:08:28.923000+00:00
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https://www.nationalgeographic.com/science/article/stunning-fossil-seized-in-police-raid-reveals-prehistoric-flying-reptiles-secrets
2021-08-27T14:19:28.615000+00:00
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The new fossil skeleton reveals that this species of pterosaur could likely fly only short distances due to the massive crest on its head.
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Entombed in limestone blocks, the newly studied fossil is the first nearly complete skeleton of a pterosaur species that was first described in 2003.
https://www.nationalgeographic.com/culture/article/reviving-the-cajun-dialect
2021-08-26T02:19:30.460000+00:00
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Janice Prejean, who lives in Scott, Louisiana, grew up speaking French with older relatives. She's now taking classes to improve her reading and writing.
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Mavis Frugé founded the Saint-Luc French Immersion and Cultural Center, which will eventually host students from around the world as well as provide programming for those interested in learning and preserving Louisiana French.
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Over the years, artist and educator Ashlee Michot has collected poetry, songs, and art documenting Louisiana French into many journals.
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The Saint-Luc French Immersion and Cultural Center maintains a library of works about Cajun culture, including this book of nursery rhymes.
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Louis Michot stands under a live oak tree on Bayou Teche.
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Louis Michot pilots his boat on Bayou Teche, the main route for Acadian migration into the region.
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Ashee Michot holding a mamou plant in the backyard of the Michot family’s home. Indigenous to Louisiana, the mamou plant’s seeds, while naturally poisonous, were specially brewed and used in Cajun culture as a remedy for colds and coughs. Arnaudville, Louisiana, 2021.
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Ashee Michot holding a mamou plant seed in the backyard of the Michot family’s home. Indigenous to Louisiana, the mamou plant’s seeds, while naturally poisonous, were specially brewed and used in Cajun culture as a remedy for colds and coughs. Arnaudville, Louisiana, 2021.
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At the one-room schoolhouse in Arnaudville, students weren't allowed to speak French because the Louisiana Board of Education made English the sole language of instruction in 1916.
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When Bayou Teche was the area's main thoroughfare, Rose and Floyd Knott's back porch was the house's front porch, overlooking traffic on the bayou.
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Cajun children fish in a bayou in Terrebonne Parish in 1940.
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Cajun musicians enjoy a jam session in a music store in Eunice, Louisiana.
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Jamie Lynn Fontenot (left) and Miriam McCracken practice for their Cajun band, the Daiquiri Queens. Fontenot grew up speaking French with her grandparents and other family, while McCracken learned the language playing Cajun music.
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Young Cajun women attend the National Rice Festival in Crowley, Louisiana, in 1938. The event, now called the International Rice Festival, is held in the heart of Cajun country, where French-speakers settled in the 18th century after being expelled from Canada's Acadia region by the British.
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2021-08-25T13:20:56.172000+00:00
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Drum Circle
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2022-01-26T17:10:04.848000+00:00
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Local students participate in a seining program at New York’s East River, through the Brooklyn Bridge Park Conservancy. Seining is a humane fishing method that uses a large net to catch and release animals.
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The Snake River’s Buffalo Fork winds through Grand Teton National Park, in Wyoming.
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A volunteer surveys a saguaro in Arizona’s Saguaro National Park. The National Park Service studies the cactus species every 10 years with the help of volunteers.
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College of Charleston student Sam Fink and another volunteer with NASA’s Space Grant Ballooning Project prepare a test launch for an upcoming solar eclipse. The pair are on board a U.S. Coast Guard response boat near Charleston, South Carolina, on August 17, 2017.
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People document a sea turtle hatchling heading for the ocean in Costa Rica. Volunteer scientists collect important data that help professional researchers understand the world.
https://www.nationalgeographic.com/travel/article/see-the-best-of-the-west-at-these-family-ranches
2022-01-26T17:09:55.402000+00:00
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Visitors at Wilson Ranch get to be a cowboy for the day and participate in activities such as cattle driving, or moving a herd of cattle, as seen here.
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A horse grazes in Wyoming’s Grand Teton National Park, where rugged peaks can reach an elevation of more than 12,000 feet.
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Brian Anglin, co-owner of Wilson Ranches Retreat in Fossil, Oregon, leads a morning horseback ride with guest. Dude ranches across the West are offering their wide-open spaces for the ideal pandemic-era family vacation.
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CF8R33 Wilson Ranch, Fossil, Oregon, USA, United States, America, Cowboy, cowboys, open range, riding, horse
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2021-08-24T12:55:42.726000+00:00
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Excavating Pompeii
https://www.nationalgeographic.com/magazine/article/the-stories-behind-ruth-bader-ginsburgs-iconic-collars
2022-06-20T15:28:22.777000+00:00
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Ginsburg wore this pink-and-blue beaded collar, a gift from women’s groups at Georgetown University Law Center, to President Barack Obama’s 2015 State of the Union address.
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Ginsburg was a fan of opera; this is a copy of a jabot worn by opera singer Plácido Domingo, from the Metropolitan Opera gift shop.
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One of Ginsburg’s original lace jabots, which she frequently wore on the bench between 1993 and 2008 and in official portraits.
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Ginsburg sometimes wore this vibrant red-and-gold collar, a thank-you gift from a staff member, to weddings.
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This white-beaded South African collar was said to be Ginsburg’s favorite.
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This doily-like lace collar was a gift.
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Ginsburg wore this spiky metal piece in the first official Court portrait with Justice Brett Kavanaugh in 2018.
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Ginsburg first wore this rainbow pride collar from Ecuador in 2016.
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The justice considered this gold-and-purple collar to be elegant.
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Ruth Bader Ginsburg served on the high court from 1993 until her death in September 2020.
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This collar made for the late Ruth Bader Ginsburg is imbued with personal meaning: Each of the four layers of fabric represents one member of her immediate family.
https://www.nationalgeographic.com/magazine/article/the-small-wonders-unlocking-secrets-of-the-solar-system-feature
2022-06-20T15:22:32.108000+00:00
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A solar array for NASA’s Lucy spacecraft unfurls as it is tested at a Lockheed Martin facility in Colorado. Set to launch in October, Lucy will need two of these arrays to generate power during its 12-year mission to explore Jupiter’s Trojan asteroids. These ancient swarms, which orbit the sun alongside the giant planet, may hold clues to the solar system’s original layout.
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On February 22, 2019, the Japanese spacecraft Hayabusa2 was hovering within a hundred feet of the surface of the near-Earth asteroid Ryugu. Moments before, Hayabusa2 had fired a projectile into Ryugu’s surface—creating this image’s central blemish—and captured some of the resulting debris. Hayabusa2 returned those samples to Earth in December 2020, completing humankind’s second mission to bring pristine bits of an asteroid home for study.
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On December 6, 2020, a capsule released by the Japanese spacecraft Hayabusa2 landed among the silvery saltbushes and terra-cotta soil of the Australian outback. The container held debris the spacecraft had collected from the near-Earth asteroid Ryugu in 2019.
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The ancient material now resides at the Extraterrestrial Sample Curation Center (right) in Sagamihara, Japan. Scientists hope it will help unlock secrets about early planet formation and perhaps even the origins of life on Earth. Although Hayabusa2’s cargo has returned, the spacecraft is now on an extended mission that will take it to another asteroid in 2031
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As wide as the Empire State Building is tall, the asteroid Bennu is the smallest body ever orbited by a spacecraft. On October 20, 2020, Bennu became the third asteroid to be sampled by spacecraft when NASA’s OSIRIS-REx plunged its arm into the surface (below) and collected some of its dust and pebbles. A capsule carrying the sample should land on Earth in 2023.
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Near-infrared images, captured by the Gemini South telescope in Chile, reveal planetary leftovers around other stars. Each disk of icy, rocky debris surrounds a young star (blocked out here). Many disks have inner “holes” likely carved out by newly formed planets. These disks resemble our solar system’s Kuiper belt, which lies beyond the orbit of Neptune.
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Near-infrared images, captured by the Gemini South telescope in Chile, reveal planetary leftovers around other stars. Each disk of icy, rocky debris surrounds a young star (blocked out here). Many disks have inner “holes” likely carved out by newly formed planets. These disks resemble our solar system’s Kuiper belt, which lies beyond the orbit of Neptune.
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Near-infrared images, captured by the Gemini South telescope in Chile, reveal planetary leftovers around other stars. Each disk of icy, rocky debris surrounds a young star (blocked out here). Many disks have inner “holes” likely carved out by newly formed planets. These disks resemble our solar system’s Kuiper belt, which lies beyond the orbit of Neptune.
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Near-infrared images, captured by the Gemini South telescope in Chile, reveal planetary leftovers around other stars. Each disk of icy, rocky debris surrounds a young star (blocked out here). Many disks have inner “holes” likely carved out by newly formed planets. These disks resemble our solar system’s Kuiper belt, which lies beyond the orbit of Neptune.
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Near-infrared images, captured by the Gemini South telescope in Chile, reveal planetary leftovers around other stars. Each disk of icy, rocky debris surrounds a young star (blocked out here). Many disks have inner “holes” likely carved out by newly formed planets. These disks resemble our solar system’s Kuiper belt, which lies beyond the orbit of Neptune.
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RAIN OF ROCK? Astronauts collected the first pristine samples from another world, including soil ejected from the moon’s Copernicus crater (above), which was retrieved during the Apollo 12 mission (below). Those samples suggest the crater formed about 800 million years ago, possibly during intense asteroid showers that bombarded Earth and its natural satellite.
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RAIN OF ROCK? Astronauts collected the first pristine samples from another world, including soil ejected from the moon’s Copernicus crater (above), which was retrieved during the Apollo 12 mission (below). Those samples suggest the crater formed about 800 million years ago, possibly during intense asteroid showers that bombarded Earth and its natural satellite.
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Engineers huddle beneath the two-foot-wide sensor array that will power the Vera C. Rubin Observatory’s 3.2-gigapixel digital camera, the biggest ever built for astronomy. Under construction in Chile, the U.S.-funded observatory is expected to find about five million more asteroids, comets, and other small bodies after it goes online in 2023.
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The European Space Agency’s Rosetta mission included the first spacecraft to orbit a comet. Between 2014 and 2016, the spacecraft circled comet 67P/Churyumov-Gerasimenko, collecting valuable information on comets’ role in the solar system’s formation and evolution. Rosetta was there when the comet made its closest approach to the sun in 2015, warming up its surface ices and releasing streams of primordial dust that the spacecraft was able to study.
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As seen by Rosetta, distant stars, glittering dust, and cosmic rays combine to make the so-called cliffs of Hathor on comet 67P/Churyumov-Gerasimenko look like an alien snowscape. The cliffs seen here are more than half a mile tall.
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SPACE INVADER In 2019 Crimean comet hunter and telescope engineer Gennadiy Borisov (below) spotted an object moving too fast to be orbiting the sun. Now called 2I/Borisov, that comet (above) is one of just two large bodies from other stars we’ve seen moving through the solar system. Thousands of interstellar interlopers are likely out there right now.
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SPACE INVADER In 2019 Crimean comet hunter and telescope engineer Gennadiy Borisov (below) spotted an object moving too fast to be orbiting the sun. Now called 2I/Borisov, that comet (above) is one of just two large bodies from other stars we’ve seen moving through the solar system. Thousands of interstellar interlopers are likely out there right now.
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The Double Asteroid Redirection Test (DART) team prepares to integrate the spacecraft’s panels, which house an array of hardware and wiring that will eventually be tucked safely within spacecraft structure. The panels were opened to allow for efficient integration and testing.
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In 2015 comet C/2014 Q2 Lovejoy—seen here in a two-photo mosaic—neared the sun for the first time in millennia. Lovejoy likely hails from the Oort cloud, a distant shell of icy objects thought to surround the solar system. It’s one of the roughly 4,000 known comets among the billions estimated to exist in our cosmic backyard.
How the hunt for a 'missing planet' revealed asteroids in our solar system
Following a hunch that there might be a missing planet in between Mars and Jupiter, early 19th-century astronomers serendipitously discovered the first asteroids. Today, spacecraft missions provide scientists a closer look at these important building blocks of our solar system.
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https://www.nationalgeographic.com/science/article/what-full-fda-approval-of-the-pfizer-vaccine-means-for-the-course-of-the-pandemic
2021-08-24T14:28:30.606000+00:00
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A nurse holds up a vial of the Pfizer-BioNTech COVID-19 vaccine after it was used to vaccinate the first five staff members at Roseland Community Hospital on December 17, 2020.
https://www.nationalgeographic.com/history/article/cdc-fda-nih-whats-the-difference
2021-08-23T18:52:51.458000+00:00
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The Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC) was originally tasked with eradicating malaria in the American South by using measures such as spraying for disease carrying mosquitoes.
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Federal meat inspectors examine butchered meat in 1910. Part of the FDA mandate is to assure the safety of the U.S. food supply.
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Public health workers pose in front of the Marine Hospital Service (MHS) headquarters in an undated photo. Responsible for inspecting incoming ships for disease and enforcing quarantines, the physicians of the MHS, later the National Institute of Health, became experts on infectious diseases.
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The Atlanta headquarters of the CDC, shown in 1976. Today, the agency plays a major role in monitoring the pandemic and providing guidance to public health departments across the U.S.
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Harvey Washington Wiley, the “Crusading Chemist,” pushed for tighter regulations over the food and medicine Americans consumed. His efforts helped lead to the passage of the Pure Foods and Drugs Act of 1906, which created the Food and Drug Administration (FDA).
https://www.nationalgeographic.com/travel/article/can-science-solve-the-seaweed-problem-on-mexican-beaches
2021-08-23T13:25:00.490000+00:00
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A worker removes sargassum from the beach near Tulum in Quintana Roo State, Mexico, in May 2019. Hotels and resorts along the coast employ full-time workers (and spend thousands of dollars) attempting to stop the seaweed from piling up on shore.
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Mexican scientist Marta Garcia examines sargassum at the Institute of Marine Sciences in Puerto Morelos, Mexico. Researchers and businesses are looking for ways to repurpose the seaweed, from using it at as fertilizer to turning it into biofuel.
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A woman hangs sheets of paper made from sargassum to dry in Cancún. The sheets will be made into notebooks, one of many products (soap, shoes, construction bricks) that entrepreneurs hope can turn the scourge into a cash crop.
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Workers remove sargassum from a Playa del Carmen beach uses rakes and a tractor. The seaweed has been blanketing beaches in Mexico’s Yucatán since 2011.
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Masses of rotting seaweed blanket the Fundadores Park beach in Mexico’s Playa del Carmen region on July 4, 2021. Called sargassum, the macroalgae is washing up on Caribbean beaches every spring and summer, bringing ecological problems and hurting the tourism economy.
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2021-08-26T13:02:51.393000+00:00
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These sunflower sea star larvae, raised at Friday Harbor Laboratories, are among the first ever to be grown in captivity.
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Naomi Scott, of Salish Sea Sciences, films an adult sunflower star feeding. Because adult feeding behaviors in the wild are poorly studied, researchers are taking the opportunity to document them in captivity.
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An aerial view of a healthy giant kelp forest off Point Sur, California. Giant kelp can grow up to 150 feet high.
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Using the cover of a fallen piece of kelp, an octopus casts an arm at passing fish off San Diego.
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Pacific purple sea urchins coat the seafloor off Monterey, California, in what's called an “urchin barren.”
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Brown sea nettles swim in a bull kelp forest off Carmel, California.
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Jon Holcomb, a retired urchin fisherman, uses his homemade airlift vacuum and rake to suck urchins off the seafloor.
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Tristin McHugh, the Nature Conservancy’s kelp project director, studies the health of sea urchins caught by commercial fishermen in Fort Bragg, California. Such data can inform future plans for restoring kelp forests.
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Crates of smashed urchins spill over in a parking lot in Fort Bragg. After urchins are removed from the ocean, they are weighed and sampled, then either donated to experimental projects or destroyed.
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Workers at Pacific Rim, Inc., work to process red and purple urchins collected off Mendocino. Uni, the edible insides of sea urchins, is a popular sushi dish.
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A starry skate rests in an urchin barren near Fort Bragg. With reefs overrun by urchins, it’s harder for skates to find a place to rest and find food.
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The California sea lion is one of the many marine mammals that rely on healthy kelp forests for safety and food.
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Urchins climb on a baited trap off Fort Bragg. The Nature Conservancy is experimenting with trapping urchins as a way to control the overpopulated species.
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An ochre sea star tries to blend into a kelp forest off Point Loma, California. All 20 species of west coast sea stars suffered during the die-off, which began in 2013.
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2021-08-23T13:15:11.225000+00:00
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A firefighting helicopter flies past smoke plumes during the Dixie Fire on August 18, 2021, near Coppervale in northern California. As of August 22, the wildfire had burned more than 724,000 acres and destroyed 1,259 structures and was continuing to grow.
https://www.nationalgeographic.com/photo-of-the-day/media-spotlight/senegal-slavery-museum-memorial
2021-08-23T12:10:34.415000+00:00
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House of Slaves
https://www.nationalgeographic.com/family/article/what-kids-really-think-about-masks-vaccines-and-in-person-school
2022-01-20T21:51:14.582000+00:00
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Third-grade teacher Becky Maturo (right) welcomes students back to in-person learning at Stanford Elementary School in Garden Grove, California. Both children and instructors will be wearing masks inside classrooms.
https://www.nationalgeographic.com/environment/article/why-new-england-rarely-sees-hurricane-threats-like-henri
2021-08-20T23:16:54.183000+00:00
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In Woods Hole Massachusetts, an employee watches floodwaters produced by by Hurricane Bob, which struck 30 years ago on August 19, 1991.
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A satellite view shows tropical storm Henri off the coast of Florida on the morning of August 20. While not unheard of, hurricanes making landfall in this part of the country is rare.
https://www.nationalgeographic.com/photo-of-the-day/media-spotlight/popocatepetl-volcano-mexico-climb
2021-08-20T19:54:59.248000+00:00
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Waiting Volcano
https://www.nationalgeographic.com/photo-of-the-day/media-spotlight/honeybee-caper-flower-hawaii
2021-08-20T19:54:15.691000+00:00
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Hungry Honeybee
https://www.nationalgeographic.com/science/article/evidence-mounts-that-people-with-breakthrough-infections-can-spread-delta-easily
2021-08-20T16:18:06.339000+00:00
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A healthcare worker administers a dose of the Pfizer-BioNTech Covid-19 vaccine at a vaccination site in Lake Worth, Florida, on Friday, Aug. 13, 2021.
https://www.nationalgeographic.com/travel/slideshow/paid-content-wild-world-of-extreme-watersports
2021-08-10T14:28:00.881000+00:00
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Plunge into the wild world of extreme watersports
https://www.nationalgeographic.com/travel/article/rare-dreznica-goats-thrive-in-idyllic-mountain-village-in-slovenia
2022-01-26T17:10:06.360000+00:00
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The goats, a genetically distinct breed, are prized by farmers because they are independent-minded and self-sufficient, foraging on their own in the region’s mountainous terrain.
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Janja Berginc keeps a herd of 40 Drežnica goats. With so few of them left, she thinks they should receive the kind of attention that is devoted to animals like elephants.
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Drežnica is an exquisitely idyllic village, presided over by the century-old Sanctuary of the Sacred Heart of Jesus and the 7,362-foot Krn Mountain.
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A Drežnica goat helps itself to some foliage on Berginc’s farm.
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Drežnica is in Slovenia’s Soča Valley, carved by the milky emerald river of the same name. The area is popular with hunters and, more recently, with paragliders.
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Goat cheese ages at Berginc’s farm. She also makes yogurt and ricotta. Drežnica goats produce less milk than other breeds, but the dairy products made from it are light and delicious.
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In nearby Bovec, a young couple, Tine and Tina Cuder, raise 40 goats. As the goats, and nearly as many sheep, munch in a nearby meadow, Tine’s mother tends to a garden on the farm.
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Goats roam freely on Berginc’s farm.
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Eva Cuder caresses a goat on her parents’ farm. The animal features in a folk song that asks where the goats have gone, which parents in Slovenia sing to their children.
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Simon Horvat, an animal sciences professor, leads his goats. He believes their hardiness will appeal to farmers seeking animals that can survive as the climate becomes hotter and drier.
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Goats take shelter in this rustic barn on Berginc’s farm.
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Under the watchful eyes of her herd, Tina Cuder cares for a young goat.
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The village of Drežnica, in western Slovenia, is home to the country’s only indigenous goat. About 600 remain, so few that the United Nations considers them at high risk for extinction.
https://www.nationalgeographic.com/history/article/what-afghanistan-and-the-world-could-lose-with-the-talibans-return
2021-08-20T14:37:43.875000+00:00
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Afghan police take a break next to a poppy field in Badakhshan Province in the northern part of the country. In 2010, writer Robert Draper and photographer David Guttenfelder traveled there to report on efforts to shut down the poppy farms that supply the illicit opium trade, which the Taliban was using to fund its operations.
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Men smoke opium as sunlight streams through shrapnel holes in a shipping container in Kabul. The drug’s presence in Afghanistan is said to date to Alexander the Great. Poppies show up in country’s recorded history 300 years ago.
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An Afghan man buys tomatoes at Kabul’s central market more than a decade before the Taliban would retake the city, sparking chaos. Kabul is now a more prosperous and cosmopolitan city than when it was last under Taliban control.
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In early August, Afghan troops still held a military post on a hill in the Arghandab District in Kandahar Province. The troops failed to stop the Taliban from reclaiming the country’s second-largest city and their former capital.
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Afghans crowd into an internet café in the city to apply for visas to immigrate to the United States. Thousands of Afghans who worked as interpreters and translators for the Americans and now fear for their lives.
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Afghans seeking refugee status show documents for their visa applications while gathering in a Kabul city park after a small protest on August 4. Under the visa program, the first group of Afghans arrived in the U.S. in July.
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A U.S. soldier guarding an entrance at Hamid Karzai International Airport in Kabul yells to two women in front of him to sit down as the soldiers try to control the crowds of thousands desperately trying to enter the airport to be evacuated.
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A 15-year-old student raises her hand in class at Zarghona high school in July. The girls school is the largest in Kabul, with 8,500 female students. Afghans fear that the Taliban will once again bar girls and women from education, work, and public life.
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Taliban fighters ride through the streets of Kandahar, a city of particular significance to the militants. Mullah Omar, the founder of the Taliban, was born near the city and ruled Afghanistan from Kandahar when his forces controlled the country.
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Taliban supporters gather outside Kandahar’s airport, which is adjacent to a sprawling military base. The airport once had the distinction of having the busiest single-runway airport in the world as a result of U.S. military operations in the region.
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People board an aircraft sent by Spain’s government to evacuate its citizens from Kabul on August 18. The aircraft was headed to Dubai, where another plane was waiting to continue the evacuation.
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Hundreds of people run alongside a U.S. Air Force C-17 as it rolls down a runway at the Kabul airport on August 16. Some clung to the jet as it took off and plunged to their deaths.
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An Afghan soldier patrols a mountainous area near Kandahar in the days before the Taliban took control.
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A Taliban fighter in Kabul keeps watch from the top of a Bradley Fighting Vehicle. The armored vehicle was one of many seized by the Taliban when military bases were abandoned by the Afghan armed forces. On August 15, the Taliban streamed into the capital city, bringing a startlingly swift end to the Afghan government and two decades of American military presence.
https://www.nationalgeographic.com/photo-of-the-day/media-spotlight/japan-baby-nursery-crib
2021-08-20T13:18:41.161000+00:00
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Japanese Nursery
https://www.nationalgeographic.com/animals/article/bears-baboons-tigers-are-getting-covid-vaccines-at-zoos-across-the-us
2021-08-20T14:41:40.584000+00:00
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Wild turkeys strut across the Oakland Zoo parking lot in April 2020, when it was closed to visitors because of the COVID-19 pandemic. The zoo is among 70 across the U.S. that hopes the experimental vaccine will protect its apes and carnivores from the virus.
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Archie the ferret receives the Zoetis COVID-19 animal vaccine at Oakland Zoo on July 21, 2021. He licks up some “ferret-vite”—a tasty vitamin supplement—from his keeper’s hand, which distracts him from the shot.
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Amy the chimpanzee receives her COVID-19 vaccination while already under anesthesia for her annual exam. Primates are known to be particularly susceptible to the virus; several at other zoos have tested positive.
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A chimpanzee examines an toy at California’s Oakland Zoo in April 2020. The ape is one of 48 animals at the zoo to receive a COVID-19 vaccine made exclusively for animals. Thousands more doses are rolling out to zoos, research institutions, and sanctuaries around the United States.
https://www.nationalgeographic.com/history/article/haitis-humanitarian-crisis-leaves-people-scrambling-for-the-basics-food-shelter-and-healthcare
2022-01-26T17:09:55.125000+00:00
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A child who was airlifted from the Haitian city of Jeremie by the U.S. Coast Guard is taken by rescue workers to a hospital in Port-au-Prince, the capital.
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In the city of Jeremie, old colonial buildings collapsed during Haiti’s latest 7.2 magnitude earthquake. But the devastation was worse in the rural areas.
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In Corail, the local school (College Pierre Apotre) barely stands. Many lives were likely spared here since the earthquake struck on a weekend day, when school was not in session.
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Just days after the powerful earthquake that hit Haiti this week, residents of Haiti’s southern peninsula were busy cleaning the rubble, bricks and stone that littered the streets. Here a man clears the wall that fell from a second-story hotel.
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The sun rises along the northern coast of Haiti’s southern peninsula—known for its rural beauty. It can be as dangerous as it is beautiful.
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The western reaches of Haiti’s southern peninsula are mountainous and mostly rural areas of banana and pineapple farmers. Motorcycles are the transportation of choice. Roads can be washed out or blocked by rocks from untrained cliffs.
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Lener Joseph receives medical attention for broken bones at the Hospital Saint Antoine in Jeremie. His sister, Evie Joseph, waits with him.
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In Corail, families huddle together on mattresses and sheets wrestled from the wreckage of their homes.
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Most of the homes in Corail, Haiti, are uninhabitable. If they didn’t fall completely, they are broken, cracked and unsafe, leaving an entire town to sleep on the streets.
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Small boats carrying the injured begin to arrive in calm weather for the first time since Tropical Storm Grace passed.
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A water truck stops on the main road between Jeremie and Corail to bring water to villagers desperate for a drink. The nearby Lacombe River is normally the main source of water for the region.
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A woman wrestles jugs of water away from neighbors also desperate for their share. After the earthquake the Lacombe River, like many on the western peninsula, became brown and, locals, who have lived through cholera issues, believe it is polluted.
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Desperation for clean water is increasing daily. Though water trucks have visited the rural villages, it is not enough to sustain the residents who once depended on an entire river for their water needs.
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The Joseph family starts their walk from the village of Duquillon to Beaumont, which will take them a day. They packed up their two children and remaining belongings to move from their home, destroyed by the earthquake.
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A resident of Corail, Haiti, sleeps on the streets in a makeshift shelter. “Most of this town is now homeless,” said Alex Maxcia, the magistrat (mayor) of Corail. Those who didn’t flee the city of 23,000 people, a two-hour drive from Jeremie, sleep on the streets. Their cracked and broken homes are unlivable.
https://www.nationalgeographic.com/culture/article/photographer-gives-an-inside-look-at-the-fall-of-kabul
2021-08-20T00:11:59.108000+00:00
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On August 15, 2021, people gather in front of Azizi Bank in Shahre Now to withdraw their money. Panic spread among Kabul residents as the Taliban swept through the capital.
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A plane from Turkish Airlines takes off from Hamid Karzai International Airport on August 15, 2021. It's one of the last commercial flights to leave Kabul before the Taliban takeover.
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KABUL | KABUL | AFGHANISTAN | 5/1/21 | Downtown area of Kabul. Almost everywhere on streets, there are thick and tall blast barriers made of concrete. They are a sign of the precarious security situation. With every blast that shatters the calm of the city, more barriers go up changing the face of Kabul further.
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KABUL | KABUL | AFGHANISTAN | 5/1/21 | Downtown area of Kabul. Almost everywhere on streets, there are thick and tall blast barriers made of concrete. They are a sign of the precarious security situation. With every blast that shatters the calm of the city, more barriers go up changing the face of Kabul further.
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A woman mourns at Karte Sakhi cemetery in western Kabul on a Thursday evening in September 2019.
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Students gather in the schoolyard of Marshal Dostum High School, in Shibirghan in northwestern Afghanistan on May 5, 2021. More than two dozen girls from Darzab and Qosh Tepa districts came to study after the Taliban shut down the schools in their villages. Their families have come to the city so the girls can continue their education.
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Unaccompanied minors wait in a truck to be transported to the transit center located in Zaranj City in 2019. They had smuggled themselves into Iran, where they were caught and sent back to Afghanistan.
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Young Afghans hang out at Simple Cafe, located in the Pul-e Surkh neighborhood of Kabul, in 2019. There has been a rise of cafe culture in western Kabul, particularity in the Karte 3 and Karte 4 neighborhoods.
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Ali, 30, registers at the Afghan border on November 18, 2019. He had been living in Iran for 15 years, where he was caught on his way to work in Tehran.
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Mohammad Barat, 34, is transported to the transit center in the southwest border city of Zaranj. He fell from the fourth floor of the construction site he was working on in Shiraz, Iran, and broke his ankle. He was at the hospital, waiting for the result of his X-ray, when he was arrested by Iranian police and immediately put on a bus to be sent back to Afghanistan.
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Relatives and neighbors prepare the body of 16-year-old Basgul, who was killed in the May 8, 2021, bombing of a Kabul high school.
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In an unfinished basement of the Qamar Bani Hashim mosque, neighbors and relatives of two girls killed in a Kabul high school bombing gather to support the victims' mothers.
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A three-day-old infant rests on a chair after he was breastfed by his mother at a west Kabul maternity ward. On May 13, 2020, a gunman entered the ward and killed 24 people. This baby's mother managed to follow the medical workers to one of the safe rooms. Ten mothers, two infants, and pregnant women were among the dead.
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Night falls over the site of an explosion in west of Kabul.
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Families and friends visit graves on Tappe Shuhada (Martyr's Hill) where 18 victims of a powerful triple explosion outside a high school in western Kabul on May 8, 2021, were buried. Almost all of the victims of the attack, which killed at least 86 people and wounded more than 160, were teenage girls leaving their classrooms.
https://www.nationalgeographic.com/environment/article/siberias-massive-wildfires-are-unlocking-extreme-carbon-pollution
2021-08-19T16:43:17.603000+00:00
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Varvara Ignatyeva, 30, (left), Konstantin Ignatyev, 27, (center), and Boris Ignatyev, 37, (right) collect hay for the family cows around the village of Argas, in far northeastern Siberia, as smoke from local wildfires hangs overhead.
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Trees are scorched and charred, the ground blackened, from a forest fire along the road between Byas-Kyuyol and Kobyay in Yakutia, Russia.
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Terentiy Ignatyev, 64, works with his family members in the fields around Argas as smoke hangs overhead.
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Wildfire smoke shrouds horses near Taryn Kyuyel lake, in Saga.
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A forest fire approaches Kyuyorelyakh, sending heavy clouds of smoke over the motorway and across the village, near Yakutia.
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Nikolay Vasilyev, 38, a local volunteer firefighter, covers his face before setting out to tackle the blaze that came close to Kyuyorelyakh.
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Heavy clouds of smoke turn the sun red over the village of Kyuyorelyak.
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Albina Kovrova, 31, hangs out laundry in the smokey air.
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Kovrova cares for her one-month-old daughter at home in Kyuyorelyakh. An hour later, she took a bus out of town with her baby and 6-year-old son to escape the smoke.
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Blocks of ice lie in an abandoned permafrost cellar of Kyuyorelyakh’s butter-making plant.
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Galina Diakonova, 67, milks one of the seven cows and around a dozen calves she and her partner raise in Yakutia. But after a nearby wildfire, just three of 20 returned home from pasture, covered in soot, some burned, and the cows started to produce less milk after the experience, she said.
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The couple had completed harvesting hay from their fields for the winter, but then the haystacks were burned by the fire.
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Volunteer firefighter Kim Konstantinov, 36, extinguishes a fire near Kyuyorelyakh.
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Firefighters refill their water tank before returning to the blaze.
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The local firefighters are mostly farmers who set out to extinguish the fire with mainly the tools, tractors, and clothing they would usually use to work in the fields.
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Oleg Shcherbakov, 37, fights the fire near Kyuyorelyakh.
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Firefighter Yegor Fedorov, 60, rests amid heavy smoke from the nearby forest fire.
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Other volunteer firefighters take a break.
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August 1, 2021—Andranik Khosrovyan, 73, talked about the danger the smoke posed to his health. “It’s horrible… there’s no oxygen,” Andranik said. “When the smoke disappears, it becomes easier to breathe.” Andranik has a pacemaker. “As soon as there’s smoke, I start feeling bad,” he said. “When it’s clear, I feel fine.
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July 27—Elizabeth Yefimova, 18, and Ilya Alekseyev, 20, wear respirators as thick smoke hangs over the city of Yakutsk from forest fires raging in the area.
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July 31—Ekaterina Kondrateva, 43, her daughter Diana, 7, Tatiana Venzel, 39, and her daughter Anna, 1, spend a day at the beach as thick smoke hangs over Yakutsk. “We have a very short summer,” Kondrateva said. “In the winter, we have the fog. In the summer, it’s the smoke. Of course we’re tired of the smoke.”
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August 1—Cars crawl through thick smoke hanging over the city.
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Oleg Shcherbakov, 37, a local volunteer firefighter, pushes his motorcycle through wildfire smoke as he heads toward the blaze in Yakutia, Russia.
https://www.nationalgeographic.com/family/article/your-kids-might-now-be-socially-awkwardand-theyre-not-alone
2022-01-20T22:08:51.075000+00:00
https://i.natgeofe.com/n/63576876-c6d4-423d-8dc7-40e4f38ff99a/Kids_Classroom_Socially-Awkward_FAMILY_0821.jpg
https://www.nationalgeographic.com/history/article/the-most-popular-music-festival-youve-probably-never-heard-of
2021-08-19T18:53:13.019000+00:00
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Count Basie on stage during the 1969 Harlem Cultural Festival in Mount Morris Park (now Marcus Garvey Park).
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The Chambers Brothers sing quintet, June 29, 1969.
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Veteran actress Butterfly McQueen (Gone With the Wind) gestures towards a photographer while speaking with Dorinda Drake, August 30, 1975, on Harlem Day. I was one of the organizers for the original Harlem day and I was trying to get [McQueen] in her place where she was supposed to be and what she supposed to do, Drake recalled recently. What I remember most about that time was the difficulty in organizing a festival like that for the first time sponsorship, cultural needs, and entertainment, banking on the success, so that we could do it again, bigger & better.
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The group the 5th Dimension.
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Actress Abbey Lincoln.
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Former New York Mayor John Lindsay with the gospel singer Mahalia Jackson outside her dressing room, during the Harlem Cultural Festival in New York, July 13, 1969. Over six weekends in the summer of 1969, the festival, which became known as Black Woodstock, drew more than 300,000 people.
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Children listen to Tony Lawrence's band at the Harlem Cultural Festival in New York, June 27, 1967.
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Former New York Mayor John Lindsay, left, is escorted by Black Panthers, who helped provide security, at the Harlem Cultural Festival in New York, July 13, 1969.
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Crowds gather for the CBS television special, the Harlem Cultural Festival, featuring Black artists in the entertainment world. The festival was sponsored by Maxwell House.
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Harlem Cultural Festival in Mount Morris Park (now Marcus Garvey Park), July 14, 1968.
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Sly Stone was among the performers on stage during the Harlem Cultural Festival in 1969. The legendary event is the focus of the documentary Summer of Soul (... Or, When the Revolution Could Not Be Televised) now available on Hulu.
Summer of Soul, Harlem Then And Now
Questlove describes the location, and history of the Harlem Cultural Festival, i.e. the Summer of Soul.
https://link.theplatform.com/s/ngs/media/guid/2423130747/0000017b-3a9d-de2f-ab7b-badd3cf70001
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https://www.nationalgeographic.com/animals/article/rattlesnakes-farther-away-than-they-sound
2021-10-19T21:30:29.912000+00:00
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A western diamondback rattlesnake prepares to strike.
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A western diamondback gets into strike position. New research finds that rattlesnakes change the speed of their rattles when a potential threat gets closer.
https://www.nationalgeographic.com/photo-of-the-day/media-spotlight/hawaii-food-humanitarian-aloha
2021-08-19T13:10:25.763000+00:00
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Helping Neighbors
https://www.nationalgeographic.com/magazine/article/13-essential-tools-for-a-colonial-wigmaker
2022-06-20T15:33:01.692000+00:00
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Curling irons
Heated on a stove, the tongs are used to shape buckles, the curls at a wig’s temples.
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Shaving equipment
A wigmaker could give shaves using a steel straight razor, brass basin, and bristle brush.
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Formal wig
White wigs (this one’s horsehair) are for occasions such as balls or portrait sittings.
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Powdering mask
During touch-ups with wig powder, this leather mask shields the wearer’s brow.
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Combs
They’re carved from horn, probably cattle or deer, for a lady (left) and gent.
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Braided queue
Attached at the back, it makes hair look longer.
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Hackle
This device helps remove knots from hair and secure it for weaving.
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Hair ruler
Before it’s woven into sections called wefts, hair is carefully measured.
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Powdering bellows
A squeeze of this device lightens a wig’s color by dusting it with powder.
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Powdering cone
The bewigged can breathe with his face inside this during heavier powder applications.
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Pink powder
Powders with tint—here, from dried rose petals—can match wig to clothing.
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Blockhead with caul
Wigmakers’ terms for the wooden head form and the caplike wig base, blockhead and caul are both sized to the customer.
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Silk thread
It’s used to sew hair wefts on the caul.
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The tools and fashions of 18th-century wigmaking are replicated in the living history museum at Colonial Williamsburg, Virginia.
https://www.nationalgeographic.com/magazine/article/these-monster-waves-test-even-the-most-daring-surfers
2022-06-20T15:31:01.817000+00:00
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A swimmer navigates the water near Teahupoo’s famed surf break, which sits just a few feet above a coral reef.
https://www.nationalgeographic.com/environment/article/5-possible-climate-futures-from-the-optimistic-to-the-strange
2021-08-18T20:21:48.239000+00:00
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Five future climate scenarios underpin the UN's Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change's latest report. Here, plants climb the red trellises in Singapore's Gardens by the Bay.
https://www.nationalgeographic.com/culture/article/giant-mural-of-aztec-god-makes-a-big-statement-about-mexican-identity
2022-01-26T17:09:59.073000+00:00
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The Tlaloc Fountain and adjoining Cárcamo de Dolores—or pumping station—occupy an enormously dynamic ecological site in Mexico City's Chapultepec Park.
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Nubbled stone mosaics adorn the Tlaloc Fountain, honoring the god of water and capturing symbols from Mexico’s past, including two sacred corncobs—the reason ancient Mexicans prayed so desperately for Tlaloc’s rainy benevolence.
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Mexican artists Frida Kahlo with her husband Diego Rivera, who was commissioned by Mexico's government in the 1950s to create the Water Garden Museum, a complex featuring a giant mural of Tlaloc, god of water.
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A view of Diego Rivera's Tlaloc Fountain, part of an old municipal water system station, in Mexico City, Mexico. Picture taken with a drone.
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An aerial view of the Fuente de Tlaloc, or Tlaloc Fountain, featuring work by muralist Diego Rivera honoring the god of water in Chapultepec Park, Mexico City, Mexico. Picture taken with a drone.
https://www.nationalgeographic.com/science/article/how-does-covid-19-affect-the-brain-a-troubling-picture-emerges
2021-08-19T14:26:00.254000+00:00
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Radiologist Arshid Azarine (R) consults with a medical team as they conduct an MRI scan on a patient at the Paris Saint-Joseph hospital on October 29, 2020 in Paris, France. France has imposed another national lockdown as the number of coronavirus cases soar during the second wave. Hospitals are reaching saturation and urgent coronavirus cases are being transferred across country.
https://www.nationalgeographic.com/environment/slideshow/paid-content-welcome-to-the-jewel-of-the-kalahari
2022-05-09T09:18:12.811000+00:00
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Okavango 1
https://www.nationalgeographic.com/animals/article/amazing-ice-worms-threatened-melting-glaciers
2021-08-18T16:51:16.379000+00:00
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Glacier ice worms cover the surface of the Paradise Glacier on the south side of Mount Rainier, Washington. These animals thrive at the freezing point of water, a scientific “paradox.”
https://www.nationalgeographic.com/science/article/the-us-is-expected-to-authorize-boostersbut-many-already-got-a-third-dose
2021-08-18T16:28:17.806000+00:00
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A medical assistant looks back at cars while administering a COVID-19 test during a drive-thru vaccination clinic on August 13, 2021 in Houston, Texas. Across the Houston metropolitan area, testing has significantly increased as the Delta variant overwhelms hospitals, and schools and business's continue to reopen.
https://www.nationalgeographic.com/animals/article/mammals-have-extremely-diverse-pregnancies-heres-why
2021-08-20T14:45:30.669000+00:00
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The foot of an unborn elephant is shown in a simulation created for “Growing Up Animal.”
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An unborn sea lion is shown in a simulation created for “Growing Up Animal.”
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A kitten in-utero is shown in a simulation created for National Geographic’s “Growing Up Animal” on Disney+. Sculptors handcrafted and painted lifelike 3D animal babies with detailed precision, down to blood capillaries and hair follicles.
Pregnancy 101
While customs and traditions involving pregnancy vary worldwide, the developmental process is essentially universal. Find out about the science of pregnancy from conception, through the three trimesters, and to labor and delivery.
https://link.theplatform.com/s/ngs/media/guid/2423130747/00000167-a4b2-d142-af67-fff21a850000
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https://www.nationalgeographic.com/photo-of-the-day/media-spotlight/women-suffrage-civil-rights
2021-08-18T13:06:20.742000+00:00
https://i.natgeofe.com/n/d96d179f-9d09-4657-9e5d-a402ebd1a780/POD-18-08-2021_NationalGeographic_2755863.jpg
Votes for Women
https://www.nationalgeographic.com/travel/article/partner-content-chasing-fall-in-ontario-and-quebec
2021-08-18T13:06:57.396000+00:00
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The autumnal splendor of Ontario is on display in Algonquin Provincial Park, where colorful conifers and deciduous trees blanket the hillside along Lake of Two Rivers.
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An Inukshuk, or human-shaped cairn, by Inuit artist David Ruben Piqtoukun is part of the McMichael Canadian Art Collection in Kleinburg, Ontario.
https://i.natgeofe.com/n/dd813c59-cd3a-48d3-85a3-0a425c0f0338/fall-colors-in-ontario-quebec-lady-love.jpg
Among the McMichael Canadian Art Collection sculptures is Lady Love, 2010, a bronze by acclaimed, Saskatchewan-born artist Ivan Eyre.
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Charming cottages, some built in the 19th century, line the shores of idyllic Lake Rosseau in Muskoka Lakes, Ontario.
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National Geographic Travel writer and Ontario native Heather Greenwood Davis plunges into a cranberry bog at Muskoka Lakes Farm & Winery in Bala, Ontario.
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Luxury glamping with Cotton Co. in Muskoka, Ontario is a hassle-free, lakeside camping experience in safari tents equipped with the comforts of home.
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Roasting marshmallows over a campfire is a nightly tradition at lakeside Deerhurst Resort in Huntsville, Ontario.
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A canoeist enjoys a serene fall paddle across Mayflower Lake in Ontario’s Arrowhead Provincial Park.
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Family-owned Henrietta's Pine Bakery specializes in European-style pastries at its Muskoka region locations in Dwight and Huntsville, Ontario.
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Sweden-native Elke Blum, the previous owner of Henrietta’s Pine Bakery, still enjoys serving customers at the Dwight, Ontario location of the popular pastry shop.
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The brilliant fall colors of Algonquin Provincial Park are reflected in the glassy waters of Peck Lake in Ontario’s Muskoka region.
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Guests at Killarney Lodge in the heart of Ontario’s Algonquin Provincial Park stay in cozy cabins tucked in the woods on the peninsula by Lake of Two Rivers.
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Following the decommissioned bed of the historic Ottawa, Arnprior, and Parry Sound Railway, the Old Railway Bike Trail in Ontario’s Algonquin Provincial Park is open to all bikes in snow-free seasons and to off-road, fat bikes during the winter.
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The brilliant fall colors of Algonquin Provincial Park are reflected in the glassy waters of Peck Lake in Ontario’s Muskoka region.
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The world-class exhibits in the Algonquin Art Centre tell the story of the provincial park’s natural and human history.
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The viewing deck at the Algonquin Park Visitor Centre offers sweeping views of the surrounding Ontario wilderness.
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The menu at White Water Brewing Company’s lakeside brewpub in Cobden, Ontario regularly changes to incorporate seasonal produce grown in the local Ottawa Valley.
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Pass by the beautiful Ottawa skyline, capital city of Canada that lies in the eastern extreme of Ontario, as you head to Gatineau, Quebec.
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The postcard-perfect Wakefield Covered Bridge is located in the village of Wakefield in La Pêche, Quebec, Canada.
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Located just outside Gatineau Park in Chelsea, Quebec, Nordik Spa-Nature promotes health and wellness through multisensory thermotherapy and relaxation experiences, such as the hot-cold-rest thermal cycle originating in Scandinavia.
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Inspired by the traditional dwellings of nomads in Central Asia, the yurt sauna offers meditation and houses a central fire with oil infusions refreshed a few times a day.
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The historical ruins, English and French gardens, and hiking trails at Gatineau Park’s Mackenzie King Estate—former summer home of Canada’s tenth and longest-serving prime minister—are open year-round.
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The Aylmer section of Gatineau, Quebec and the west end of Canada’s capital city, Ottawa, Ontario, are viewable from the Huron Lookout in Gatineau Park.
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Saddle up to see the fall foliage from a different perspective on a horseback riding excursion through Kanatha-Aki Nature Center in Val-des-Lacs, Quebec.
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The five-line zipline tour at Mont-Tremblant, Quebec offers a bird’s-eye view of the autumn colors.
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The Tonga Lumina illuminated trail at Mont-Tremblant, Quebec begins at the midway chairlift station and weaves downhill through the woods.
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Canada’s best road trips: Chasing fall colors in Ontario and Quebec
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2021-08-17T22:15:00.466000+00:00
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The fossilized egg from the Cretaceous period, containing a rare turtle embryo inside.
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A fossilized egg found in China revealed a surprise inside: the baby of a giant prehistoric turtle.
https://www.nationalgeographic.com/environment/article/taking-down-old-fences-to-help-migrating-wildlife-
2021-08-17T18:12:21.047000+00:00
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A remote camera captures a mule deer walking a game trail above the Buffalo Fork River near Grand Teton.
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Barbed wire disappears to the horizon in Wyoming, where a single county has been found to have 4,500 miles of fencing.
https://www.nationalgeographic.com/travel/article/canada-salmon-are-at-risk-how-can-tourists-help
2022-01-26T17:10:12.853000+00:00
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Pink salmon, one of five species of salmon in British Columbia, are pictured migrating to their spawning grounds in the Great Bear Rainforest.
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An Indigenous Yupik man is shown drying salmon in Tuluksak, Alaska. Many Indigenous people depend on the fish for food as well as ceremonial purposes.
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Wild sockeye salmon sits on ice at a fish market in Steveston, British Columbia.
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The Nimmo Bay Wilderness Resort in British Columbia’s Great Bear Rainforest has stopped serving salmon at its restaurant to help save the fish.
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A Kermode bear catches a salmon in the Great Bear Rainforest in British Columbia, Canada. Bears, whales, and Indigenous peoples are dependent on Pacific salmon, but the fish population is threatened. This means some restaurants have stopped serving the fish, and scientists are studying how to better protect it.
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2021-08-17T13:31:47.715000+00:00
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Double Rainbow
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2021-09-22T18:39:33.694000+00:00
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Rangers at Samburu National Reserve watch as the young, female cheetah limps to find shelter for the night. Cheetahs have lost more than 90 percent of their habitat range in the past century, and fewer than 7,000 adults remain in the wild.
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Nairobi-based veterinarian Michael Njoroge, with the Kenya Wildlife Service, arrives two days after rangers reported the injured cheetah. He kneels to examine her as Cosmas Wambua, cofounder of Action for Cheetahs in Kenya, and Ljalu Lekalaile, a ranger with Samburu National Reserve, prepare to assist.
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The injured cheetah spent most of the day lying under a bush. To ensure she wasn’t harmed by other predators, photographer Nichole Sobecki, guide Julius Lesori, and others kept watch nearby until a veterinarian arrived. Here, the cheetah growls at a ranger, but she is too weak to move.
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After spending a two-hour drive semi-conscious in the back of a truck, the cheetah is unloaded at North Kenya Veterinary Services, a private clinic in Nanyuki, to be stabilized.
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Veterinary staff turn her over to treat her puncture wounds, which are three to four days old now and becoming necrotic. Rangers who accompanied her to the clinic have named her Nichole, after the photographer.
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Njoroge checks on Nichole, who is receiving intravenous fluids and antibiotics.
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Njoroge and two rangers move the cheetah into a truck to bring her to Nairobi for further care. Her health is still precarious, and making the 120-mile drive to the capital is a risk.
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Somewhat more alert, Nichole looks out from her crate in the back of the truck. She survived the journey, but a day after arriving at Kenya Wildlife Services headquarters in Nairobi, she died.
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The cheetah, pictured here in Samburu National Reserve before help arrived, is one of four to die—all of different causes—in the area in the past month. “Being witness to the last few days of this cheetah’s life is an experience I’ll never forget,” says photographer Nichole Sobecki. “My hope is that we choose to act more decisively for the species as a whole.”
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A veterinarian checks the pupils of a barely conscious cheetah, dehydrated and suffering from infected puncture wounds, likely caused by another animal. The cheetah is one of an estimated 20 that live in Samburu National Reserve and nearby Buffalo Springs, in northern Kenya.
https://www.nationalgeographic.com/animals/article/see-efforts-to-save-cheetahs
2021-08-20T13:54:46.559000+00:00
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Leah and Deniel Lentaam corral their goats in Meibae Community Conservancy, in northern Kenya, to keep them safe from predators such as cheetahs. In addition to the illegal cub trade, cheetahs also face threats from conflict with humans: If a cheetah kills livestock, it may be killed in retaliation.
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Nailepu Leparselu gives her children goat milk for breakfast in Meibae. The milk has been a staple for generations, which is why losing goats to cheetahs is of such concern to pastoralists.
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When Sailepi Leodip was out grazing his family’s goats in March 2021, cheetahs attacked the herd and killed four, despite his efforts to scare them off. “Now I’m not allowed to graze the goats. [My family] doesn’t trust me,” he says, pledging that next time, he’ll respond with his spear. Elders in his community are urging more restraint, as communities struggle to balance their own survival with broader ecological goals
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Cosmas Wambua, Timothy Maivo, and Learkeri Joseph (left to right)—who are on the staff of Action for Cheetahs in Kenya—collect cheetah scat in Meibae. Scat analysis, which can provide information about health, diet, and genetics is crucial for understanding the status of local cheetah populations.
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Shukri Haji Ismail Mohamoud, minister of environment and rural development, leads Somaliland’s efforts to combat the illegal cheetah trade. Because of her initiative and determination, protecting cheetahs has become a high-profile objective for the government.
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Somaliland’s 18th Battalion is a specialized anti-trafficking army unit that patrols smuggling routes and junctions along remote stretches of coastline.
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The Action for Cheetahs in Kenya team prepares to host a workshop for rangers who respond to attacks on livestock. If rangers can identify whether the predator was a lion, leopard, hyena, cheetah, or other animal, they’ll be able to offer more specific strategies to prevent future attacks.
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Samatar Abdi-Goulid, founder of the British Islamic Academy, in Hargeysa, smiles as 12-year-old Maxamed volunteers to answer a question during a presentation from the nonprofit Cheetah Conservation Fund (CCF). CCF visits local schools to teach children about cheetahs, including the role that predators play in a healthy ecosystem and why they shouldn’t be feared.
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Solar-powered lights glow around the perimeter of a manyatta, or family compound, in Meibae. The lights help protect livestock by keeping predators away. Though cheetahs are more likely to hunt during the day, nighttime attacks by lions and leopards lower pastoralists’ tolerance for all predators.
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Lentaam Chris and other field officers with Action for Cheetahs in Kenya each carries out four transects a month to monitor the numbers and densities of different species. The organization’s research provides insight into the health of cheetah populations, helping conservationists define strategies to address threats to their survival.
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Somaliland coast guard officers from the town of Saylac settle down for the night on a nearby island in Saacada Diin archipelago, as light from neighboring Djibouti glows in the distance. When the tide rises in the morning, they’ll patrol the waters for illegal fishing and smuggling.
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Coast guard patrols leaving from Lughaye and other towns along Somaliland’s 500-mile coastline are the foundation of efforts, starved for funding, to prevent cheetah smuggling—as well as smuggling of humans, arms, and gems—and illegal fishing.
https://www.nationalgeographic.com/animals/article/how-you-can-help-fight-the-illegal-cheetah-cub-trade
2021-08-20T16:21:28.247000+00:00
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Siblings Frigga and Freya, at the Cheetah Conservation Fund’s rescue center in Hargeysa, Somaliland, look curiously at the camera. Somaliland law enforcement rescued them in July 2020 from the illegal cub trade.
https://www.nationalgeographic.com/animals/article/how-trafficked-cheetah-cubs-move-from-the-wild-and-into-your-instagram-feed
2022-04-07T19:36:55.098000+00:00
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The National Geographic Society, committed to illuminating and protecting the wonder of our world, has funded Timothy Spalla’s research on cheetah trafficking since 2019 and Explorer Nichole Sobecki’s current work in the Democratic Republic of the Congo.
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At the entrance to a popular restaurant in Hargeysa, Somaliland’s capital, a cheetah sits on display near a trash can and rusty paint pail. Somaliland, not recognized as an independent nation by most countries, is striving to fight the illegal wildlife trade. Still, for many Somalilanders who are struggling to get by, protecting wildlife isn’t a priority.
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After intercepting Astur, the young cheetah, and a five-week-old leopard near Xariirad, members of the rescue team stop at a roadside overlook to pray. Cheetahs often change hands in Xariirad, a remote town in western Somaliland near the Ethiopian border.
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The rescue team, the cheetah, and the leopard make the rough drive from Xariirad to Boorama, several hours away. Cheetahs are the most commonly smuggled cats, but leopard cubs show up too. This leopard cub was from a litter a herder said he took as revenge for their mother having eaten his goats.
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With an airline eye mask and a tissue in his ears to help him stay sedated, Astur undergoes an intake exam at one of the nonprofit Cheetah Conservation Fund’s (CCF) rescue centers in Hargeysa. Cubs smuggled or intercepted from criminal rings often get sick, typically because they’re subjected to long, grueling journeys and deprived of proper nutrition. Many don’t survive.
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Asma Bile Hersi (at center), a veterinarian who volunteers with the Cheetah Conservation Fund, buys goat meat at a market in Boorama to feed Astur and the leopard. One of Somaliland’s rare female wildlife veterinarians, she estimates she’s helped save more than a dozen cheetahs, treating them in the field until they reach a rescue center in Hargeysa.
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Five rescued cubs are corralled in a tent in front of a heater. Just six weeks old, they require feeding every few hours. One CCF veterinarian at a time serves as the primary caretaker for very young cubs, even sleeping next to them. The organization houses and cares for all of Somaliland’s confiscated cheetahs—nearly 60 as of mid-2021.
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Akbar the Great, a 16th-century ruler of Mughal India, hunted deer with cheetahs, once found across the subcontinent. In a painting from the 1590s, he’s capturing wild cheetahs, trapped in pits to be brought to his palace and trained for the hunt.
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Ethiopia’s last emperor, Haile Selassie I, stands with his pet cheetahs at the Jubilee Palace in 1962.
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Cabaret star Josephine Baker poses with her cheetah, Chiquita, in the 1930s. A gift from a club owner, Chiquita became part of Baker’s act and later traveled with her.
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Soprano singer Charlene Chapman is shown with pet cheetah Flossie in her New York State home in 1956.
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Smoking a cigar in his Parisian shop, Raymond Cordier had a waiting list of “40 jet-set wives” in France standing by to buy cubs, a newspaper reported in 1969.
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Four-year-old Phillida Theobald sits in London’s Hyde Park with Spot, brought back from Kenya by pilot Guy Wilfred “Bill” Harben before World War II.
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For those who buy pet cheetahs, “the novelty wears off quickly, aside from the picture you get,” says veterinarian Hollis Stewart, who has cared for captive wildlife in Dubai.
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For those who buy pet cheetahs, “the novelty wears off quickly, aside from the picture you get,” says veterinarian Hollis Stewart, who has cared for captive wildlife in Dubai.
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For those who buy pet cheetahs, “the novelty wears off quickly, aside from the picture you get,” says veterinarian Hollis Stewart, who has cared for captive wildlife in Dubai.
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Social media sites like Instagram also act as a marketplace. The caption above says, “Four-month-old male cheetah for sale. Contact in-box.” Cheetahs aren’t easy to breed in captivity; most pets were poached from the wild.
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Storm, Guhad, and Leo (left to right) rest on a wooden shelter in their enclosure at a CCF rescue center. Trafficked cheetahs typically are taken from the wild as babies; because they never learned to hunt, they can’t be returned to the wild. Until Somaliland’s rescued cheetahs have a protected reserve where they can live in natural surroundings, they’ll be confined here.
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Before his rescue, Freya had been kept in a wood-and-wire cage and was skinny and dehydrated. Now healthy, he loves climbing on logs, sitting on high platforms, and playing with toys.
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When Idris was brought to a CCF rescue center with his sister Elba, he was skittish around people. He would let Elba investigate new situations first, staffers say, but now he has grown more confident.
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Siblings Link and Zelda were among 10 cubs rescued last October after the high-profile arrest of Cabdiraxmaan Yusuf Mahdi, better known as Cabdi Xayawaan, on wildlife trafficking charges. Named after characters in Nintendo’s Legend of Zelda, the pair are inseparable—even when Link annoys Zelda with his roughhousing.
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Called “Nose” in Somali, San is another of the cubs rescued in Cabdi Xayawaan’s case. She had a badly injured nose and cried at first, but since she’s been housed with Link and Zelda, she’s settled down.
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Major, whose ruff is marked with red paint to differentiate him from his siblings, is one of five cubs rescued from poachers in July 2020. He’s the most affectionate of the group, according to sanctuary staff.
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When nine-month-old Apollo and Artemis were rescued, their front paws had been bound with zip ties and half of Artemis’s tail was missing. Artemis has since died from feline coronavirus, which can spread quickly among captive cheetahs.
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Coast guard officers sit in the yard of the run-down and underresourced station in Ceel Shiikh. They all know of Cabdi Xayawaan, Somaliland’s most notorious cheetah smuggler, and even spray-painted his name on the side of the station building as a reminder that he was at large.
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The Somaliland National Army patrols the border with Ethiopia, source of many smuggled cheetah cubs. The rugged terrain makes policing difficult.
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Somaliland Coast Guardsman Cilmi Xaamud Axmed (at center) climbs aboard a Yemeni boat to check fishing licenses as part of a routine patrol off Lughaye. Yemen is just hours away by boat, making these waters a busy trade route for trafficking—of humans, gems, weapons, and wildlife. The coast guard is the last chance to intercept smuggled cubs before they’re out of Somaliland’s reach.
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On trial in Hargeysa for cheetah trafficking, Cabdi Xayawaan stands behind the bars of the courtroom cell as the judge speaks to him. Cabdi Xayawaan, who has three past convictions and a reputation as Somaliland’s most prolific cheetah smuggler, pleaded not guilty.
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The judge (at left) looks at five of the 10 cheetahs confiscated in Cabdi Xayawaan’s case and brought to court as evidence. Cabdi Xayawaan was found guilty last November and sentenced to four years in prison in a case that was widely seen as a landmark.
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Lobikito Leparselu cares for his family’s goats at dawn in northern Kenya. Here, as in Somaliland, losing livestock to cheetahs can be devastating. “I probably lose more than 20 a year out of my hundred,” his father, Leparselu Lemongu, says. “That’s my wealth, and I see it slipping away.” Predation pushes some herders to capture and sell cheetah cubs to smugglers, but buyers seek- ing an exotic pet are the ones perpetuating the illegal trade.
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A seven-month-old cheetah in the back of an SUV hisses at a rescuer’s outstretched hand. Authorities intercepted the cub, later named Astur, before he could be sold to a smuggler. But every year scores—perhaps hundreds—of mostly very young cheetahs are trafficked out of Somaliland to Persian Gulf states to be sold as pets.
https://www.nationalgeographic.com/science/article/how-the-hunt-for-a-missing-planet-revealed-asteroids-in-our-solar-system
2021-08-16T17:56:48.375000+00:00
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Following a hunch that there might be a missing planet in between Mars and Jupiter, early 19th-century astronomers serendipitously discovered the first asteroids. Today, spacecraft missions provide scientists a closer look at these important building blocks of our solar system.
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A wildland firefighter monitors a controlled burn in Branson, Colorado. Scientists say controlled burns are becoming more necessary as more people move into areas prone to wildfires.
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Smokey Bear wears a protective face mask as he warns of High Fire Danger at L.A.'s Griffith Park. As the U.S. West endures record-breaking fire and drought, some scientists are urging Americans to rethink a few traditions they hold dear, including Smokey.
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A bathtub ring is visible at the Lake Mead reservoir behind Hoover Dam. With the water level below an elevation of 1,075 feet, the U.S. Bureau of Reclamation has declared a water shortage on the Colorado River for the first time since the dam was built in the 1930s.
https://www.nationalgeographic.com/history/article/centuries-long-struggle-for-afghanistan
2021-08-16T20:45:48.716000+00:00
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In 1839, the British invaded Afghanistan and restored Shah Shufa to the throne as Emir of Afghanistan. He was assassinated in 1842. Britain tried to annex Afghanistan three times to block Russian expansion and protect its colonial interests in India.
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In the 1880 Battle of Maiwand, during the Second Anglo-Afghan War, Afghan forces destroyed British and Indian troops.
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Sikh soldiers guard Afghan prisoners near the Khyber Pass. The British invaded Afghanistan in 1878 after Emir Sher Ali Khan gave an audience to a Russian representative but refused to let a British diplomatic mission enter the country.
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Amanullah Khan, the king of Afghanistan (center), shares a row boat with Mustafa Kemal Ataturk, the president of Turkey, in 1928. Amanullah obtained Afghanistan’s freedom from Britain and introduced modern reforms, for which he was eventually exiled.
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The Soviet Union also attempted to extend its influence over Afghanistan. In 1955, Soviet leader Nikita Khrushchev (center) reviewed Afghan troops with Afghan Prime Minister Sardar Mohammed Daud Khan (left, in cap).
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Mohammed Zahir Shah, the last king of Afghanistan, was deposed in a bloodless coup in 1973 and went into exile. After the U.S. pushed the Taliban back, he returned to Afghanistan, where he died in 2007.
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Soviet and Afghan soldiers greet each other in 1980. A Communist coup in 1978 led eventually to the Soviet Union’s invasion of Afghanistan in 1979.
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Soviet leader Leonid Brezhnev (right) celebrates his birthday at the Kremlin in 1981 with Babrak Kamal, the Afghan president installed by the Soviet Union.
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In 1983, President Ronald Regan met with Afghan fighters to discuss Soviet depredations in Afghanistan. The U.S. had begun to supply arms to anti-Soviet groups in 1980.
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Afghan president Mohammed Najibullah (center) greets Soviet soldiers in 1986. He stepped down in 1992 when mujahideen forces seized Kabul. When the Taliban took control in 1996, he was tortured and killed.
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A Red Army paratrooper trains Afghan soldiers in close combat at the Kabul airport in 1988. The Soviets withdrew from Afghanistan the following year.
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Mujahideen soldiers dance on President Najibullah’s bed after his overthrow and the establishment of an Islamic government in 1992.
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Taliban soldiers drive a Soviet tank into the Afghan city of Mazar-e-Sharif in 1997.
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Two Afghan fighters seek scant cover during the conflict in 2001. The United States invaded Afghanistan after the September 11 attacks.
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Afghan fighters search the wreckage of an al Qaeda training camp destroyed by U.S. bombing in December 2001.
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In 2004 mujahideen parade in Kabul to celebrate the 20th anniversary of their victory over the Soviets. They carry portraits of assassinated leader Ahmad Shah Massoud and Hamid Karzai, the country’s first elected president.
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A child waves at a passing column of German military vehicles. NATO forces joined the U.S. in Afghanistan.
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U.S. Defense Secretary Donald Rumsfeld (left) meets with Afghan President Hamid Karzai at the presidential palace in Kabul to discuss the country’s upcoming elections in 2004.
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Many girls in Afghanistan get no education at all. Even those who do enroll in a school typically study for just four years. So these members of Kabul University's class of 2010 are definitely in the minority. Wearing hijab under their mortarboards and seated in separate rows from their male peers, the women pictured are graduates of the department of language and literature. The Taliban had banned the education of women, but classes resumed after the regime fell in 2001. This graduation was held under tight security at a hotel in Kabul because of an upsurge in terrorist attacks.
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After the Taliban was ousted in 2001, women were able to take larger roles in government, although it was still dangerous. In 2019 Marjan Mateen, deputy minister of education, heads to a meeting accompanied by an armed guard.
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In 2020, young men and women could train to be models with Afghanistan’s first model agency.
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In the midst of unrelenting violence in 2019, Afghans attend a campaign rally for Abdullah Abdullah, chief executive of Afghanistan, in Bamyan, where the Taliban had destroyed monumental statues of Buddha in 2001.
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General Austin Miller, the top U.S. commander in Afghanistan, greets General Bismillah Khan Mohammadi, the Afghan defense minister, during a ceremony on July 12, 2021, in Kabul that marked the end of the U.S. presence in Afghanistan.
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People desperate to be evacuated after the Taliban takeover try to scale the walls surrounding Hamid Karzai International Airport in Kabul on August 16, 2021.
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Taliban fighters seized the presidential palace on August 15, 2021, just hours after President Ashraf Ghani fled the country. The Taliban now controls Afghanistan.
https://www.nationalgeographic.com/history/article/how-centuries-of-strife-shaped-modern-afghanistan
2021-08-16T21:51:23.680000+00:00
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2022-01-26T17:10:04.564000+00:00
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Boxwork, honeycomb patterns made from thin blades of calcite, form over the walls and ceiling of Wind Cave.
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Spelunkers rappel 300 feet (90 meters) into the Greenland ice sheet. Glacier caves such as these form when seasonal meltwater or geothermal vents cut fissures and channels through an ice sheet. Because they are made of ice, glacier caves can be quite unstable and present unique challenges to spelunkers.
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Looking like the set of a science fiction movie, China’s Reed Flute Cave is bathed in purple-blue light. Created by an underground river more than a half million years ago, this highly accessible karst formation is one of the region's most popular tourist attractions. But during World War II the cave served a different purpose—it doubled as an air raid shelter.
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A caver is dwarfed by calcite columns that stretch some 50 feet (15 meters) to the top of Tower Place in Lechuguilla Cave. Located in Carlsbad Caverns National Park in New Mexico, this famous cave attracts spelunkers from all over the world.
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Mineral deposits in caves can create amazing shapes, such as these chocolaty-looking cave pearls. These unique spherical formations are created in cave pools when layers of calcite are slowly deposited around a grain of sand or dirt.
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Cave divers explore a flooded chamber of Florida’s Diepolder Cave, 250 feet (76 meters) below the Earth's surface. Named after the man who originally owned the land, Diepolder Cave is located on Sand Hill Boy Scout Reservation near Brooksville, Florida.
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Two tiny figures look back towards the entrance of Deer Cave in Mulu National Park in the island of the Borneo’s State of Sarawak. The pair is dwarfed by one of the world's largest known cave passages, 1.2 miles (1.9 kilometers) long, 500 feet (152 meters) wide, and 400 feet (122 meters) tall. The massive cave system here draws explorers from all over the world-and is also home to much well-adapted wildlife. Deer Cave alone houses three million wrinkled-lipped freetail bats-whose droppings in turn feed countless dung-eating insects.
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Steam rises from the Pacific as molten lava pours from the fiery interior of a lava tube near Kilauea, Hawaii. Lava tubes are created when lava flows through a channel for long periods of time, gradually building natural levees along its sides that eventually connect into an overlying roof. When lava flows stop, the caves may be left behind for exploration. Kilauea’s tubes extend from the ocean to vents on the flank of the Puu Oo cone.
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Their headlamps dimming in the distance, a group of cavers descends into Ellison's Cave far under Pigeon Mountain in northwest Georgia. The cave's “Fantastic Pit,” seen here, is the deepest cave drop in the continental United States at a staggering 586 vertical feet (179 vertical meters).
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A caver rappels into the first pit of Krubera Cave in the Caucasus Mountains of Abkhazia, a politically disputed breakaway region of Georgia. Krubera is the deepest known cave in the entire world, delving more than 7,188 feet (2,191 meters) underground. Exploring it requires a kind of reverse mountaineering, as teams spend weeks moving from camp to camp while working their way even further into the Earth.
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A spelunker takes a close look at the Hand of Dog stalagmite in Hang Son Doong Cave. The “Mountain River Cave,” in a remote part of Vietnam's Annamite Mountains, was first explored in 2009 and boasts caverns large enough to hold a 747 airplane. In fact, though explorers have only scratched the cave's surface it may be the world’s largest with continuous passages as wide as 300 feet (91 meters) stretching more than 600 feet (183 meters) high.
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A sea kayaker cruises through a glacier cave carved out from among the giant icebergs of Resurrection Bay near Seward Alaska. Glacier caves are often created by the action of water on ice, though not all end up partially submerged as this iceberg example.
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Boaters on an underground river enjoy a facsimile of the night sky created by a galaxy of glowworms on the roof of the Waitomo Caves on New Zealand's North Island. The tiny worms have become a rather large tourist attraction, and the caves they call home also boast notable stalactites, stalagmites, and interesting limestone rock formations.
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A caver explores an otherworldly landscape in the aptly named Cave of Crystals in Naica, Mexico. The ice-cooled suit isn’t just for show, the cave’s 90 percent humidity and high temperatures (118 degrees Fahrenheit, 48 degrees Celsius) could kill a person in half an hour. The 36 foot-long (11 meter-long), 55-ton gypsum crystals here formed in hot, mineral-rich water that filled the cave until local mining operations pumped it dry. Should the mine close and pumping cease, the caves will refill and crystal growth will begin again.
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A caver examines single-celled organisms, called “snotties,” that produce a prodigious slime with a nasty acidic level rivaling battery acid. In Tabasco, Mexico’s Cueva de Villa Luz these bacteria oxidize sulfur compounds that enter the cave from subterranean springs. Sulfur is the basis of nearly all life forms in this toxic-to-humans environment and cavers wear respirators for protection against sulfurous vapors.
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Like spiders on silk, cavers begin an eye-popping descent into the Cave of Swallows, a Mexican open-air pit cave whose floor lies some more than 1,200 dizzying feet (366 meters) below-far enough to accommodate the Empire State Building. This free fall plunge is so exhilarating that it has become a major draw for adventure seekers including BASE jumpers. Animals have called it home for far longer and the cave takes its name from the many birds who nest in its vertical walls.
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The Chandelier Ballroom is a spot of extreme beauty, where gypsum crystals up to 20 feet (6 meters) long sprout from the ceiling of Lechuguilla Cave in Carlsbad Caverns, National Park, NM. Lechuguilla, one of the world's premier caves, lies some 1,640 feet (500 meters) below the desert and stretches for some 120 miles (193 kilometers).
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Mammoth Cave is massive, in fact it’s the world’s longest known cave system, but cavers must still be prepared to deal with the many tight spots familiar to all who explore underground. Under south central Kentucky the cave’s linked honeycomb has been surveyed for more than 360 miles (580 kilometers). Experts believe that its full extent might be more than 1000 miles (1600 kilometers).
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A small “glacier cave” on the north polar ice cap offers a frigid refuge and and a wide sampling of exotic ice crystals. While many conventional caves are born from the actions of water and rock they form differently on Arctic's floating pack ice. Large glacier caves here grow where fissures are cut, and subsequently enlarged through the ice sheet, by the actions of seasonal meltwater or geothermal vents.
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These stairs take visitors under Mammoth Cave National Park in Kentucky. It contains more than 400 miles of caves, making it the longest cave system in the world.
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Lanterns light the way into an old silica sand mine inside a cave in South Dakota’s Black Hills.
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Visitors explore Wind Cave National Park in South Dakota. With 130 miles of explored passages, it is among the world’s longest cave systems and a popular spot for spelunking enthusiasts.
https://www.nationalgeographic.com/animals/article/thirsty-animals-stay-hydrated-using-these-ingenious-techniques
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Chimpanzees drink from leaves soaked in fresh rainwater.
https://www.nationalgeographic.com/science/article/ripples-in-saturns-rings-reveal-the-planets-giant-slushy-core
2021-08-19T23:37:15.338000+00:00
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Saturn's core, which contains about 17 times the mass of Earth, is filled with a mixture of hydrogen, helium, ice, and rock.
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By observing waves in Saturn's rings, scientists were able to measure the size and shape of the planet's core—and it's much larger and more bizarre than anyone could have guessed.
https://www.nationalgeographic.com/photo-of-the-day/media-spotlight/roller-coaster-pyongyang-north-korea
2021-08-16T13:00:47.334000+00:00
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Thrill Seekers
https://www.nationalgeographic.com/magazine/article/september-11-2001-pausing-to-remember-those-who-were-lost
2022-06-20T15:27:39.728000+00:00
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Members of the group traveling with National Geographic pause in Dulles International Airport for a photo before their flight. From left to right: James Debeuneure, Rodney Dickens, Bernard Brown, Hilda Taylor, Asia Cottom, Joe Ferguson, and Ann Judge.
https://www.nationalgeographic.com/magazine/article/artifacts-pulled-from-the-rubble-of-9-11-become-symbols-of-what-was-lost
2022-06-20T15:26:53.944000+00:00
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Dispatched to the twin towers after the first attack, EMT Benjamin Badillo stayed with his ambulance as his partner, EMT Edward Martinez, looked for survivors. Hearing an awful roar, Badillo saw “the top of the building coming down.” Martinez was struck by debris. Both men sought cover as the south tower disintegrated. Martinez was taken to a hospital and survived thanks to emergency surgery. Badillo recalls searching the area, “screaming for my partner.” Their ambulance was destroyed, but part of its map book survived.
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Witnessing the destruction inspired Gully and others to make their own “individual memorials,” says Chief Curator Jan Seidler Ramirez of the 9/11 Memorial & Museum. When Gully donated his pants to the museum in 2012, he attached a singed shipping invoice that he’d snatched out of the blizzard of paper in the air and tucked in his pocket. It came from Marsh & McLennan, an insurance company that took a direct hit from the plane that slammed into the north tower. The firm lost more than 350 people.
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Recovery workers spent nine months excavating debris from ground zero and searching for remains of victims. In 2006, New York City’s Office of the Chief Medical Examiner launched another search for remains in the area where the World Trade Center buildings had stood. Among the many everyday items discovered during that canvas: a broken, dirt-encrusted keyboard from investment holding company Garban Intercapital.
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Also found in the excavation of debris from ground zero was this plastic lid from a food container.
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J.J. McLoughlin says his father almost tossed out the boots, whose soles had dry-rotted years ago. Instead, the family gave them to the 9/11 Memorial & Museum. John McLoughlin was in a medically induced coma for six weeks, had more than 30 operations, spent months hospitalized, and still has health issues. Now 68 and retired since 2004, he volunteers with the Boy Scouts.
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Many of the recovered objects were distorted by force and fire. Investigators identified this fragment as a Boeing 767 aircraft wing-flap support, most likely from the jet that hit the south tower. It was wedged in a crevice between two buildings several blocks north of ground zero and wasn’t found until 12 years after the attacks.
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The collapse of the twin towers generated tremendous force: Many objects inside the 110-story buildings were pulverized as upper floors dropped onto lower ones. Hardier materials later recovered from the ground zero debris field include copper wiring.
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Glass fused by heat
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Concrete
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Random debris
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Metal
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Sprinkler head
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Panel from an emergency phone box
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Metal
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Corner of an Otis Elevators sign
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Plane parts
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The pilot of American Flight 77, Charles F. Burlingame III, carried a precious talisman: a laminated prayer card from the funeral of his mother, Patricia, who had died less than a year before. Recovery workers found the card, largely intact, at the Pentagon crash site. Burlingame’s brother said its discovery brought comfort: “My family believed that was my mother saying, ‘Don’t worry. I’ve got him now.’ And that was her little sign to us.”
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When passengers tried to retake Flight 93, hijackers aiming for Washington, D.C., crashed the jet in rural Pennsylvania. One piece of the Boeing 757’s engines was found lodged in a field; another fell into a pond. On the four hijacked flights, 33 crew members and 213 passengers died.
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On February 26, 1993, Smith was among tens of thousands of evacuees from World Trade Center buildings after a bomb in an underground parking garage blasted a hole 130 feet by 150 feet and several stories deep. To celebrate her survival and boost her courage as she returned to work in the north tower, Smith bought herself a present: a gold ring set with sapphires and diamonds. It also was found in the 9/11 wreckage. Her watch, encrusted with dust and missing its crystal, stopped seconds before one o’clock.
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Some once common objects that endured the destruction seem poignantly anachronistic today. A crumpled roll of plastic film was discovered in lower Manhattan years after the initial recovery operation.
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On 9/11, almost every floor of the twin towers had offices. Equipment found after the attacks includes the remains of a Rolodex, a rotating file for cards with contact information—as indispensable in the late 20th century as databases are today. Some of the cards are charred, some warped, others still legible.
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For Capestro—JOJO to friends—seizing her “second chance in life” is a work in progress. Once afraid to return to an office, she’s now an executive assistant to a CEO. Once guilt ridden that she was alive while many parents had died, she’s embraced the kids and grandkids of the man she married in 2018. Penman took the photos at their wedding.
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Long Island resident Joe Hunter earned a business degree from Hofstra University, but he’d known since childhood that firefighting was what he really wanted to do. A television news video from the morning of 9/11 shows Hunter and other FDNY Squad 288 members, sober-faced and laden with gear, heading to the World Trade Center’s south tower to join the evacuation effort. When the tower collapsed, Hunter and his squad mates perished. Hunter’s helmet was found in the wreckage several months later.
https://www.nationalgeographic.com/history/article/how-the-taliban-swiftly-retook-power-in-afghanistan
2021-08-17T19:51:30.194000+00:00
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The author of this article in Kandahar in 2001, after the U.S. takeover of the Taliban stronghold ushered in two decades of U.S.-backed rule in Afghanistan.
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The two maps show the swiftness of the Taliban takever. At left, on Friday, the Taliban (noted in a darker tone) controlled more than half of the country. By Sunday, pictured at left, the capital and nearly all of the country had been captured, and the U.S.-backed anti-Taliban leader had fled.
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Abdul Wahab once was a Taliban member but later joined an anti-Taliban militia and was shown here at an outpost in the Karsai Mountains earlier this year. In July, Wahab was killed when the Taliban overran his position.
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Zarifa Ghafari, one of Afghanistan's first women mayors, was among people profiled last year in a Nat Geo feature on political changes for women worldwide. Today, the 29-year-old Ghafari says she could not escape before the Taliban takeover and is waiting for the rebels to kill her.
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An Afghan family rushes to Kabul’s airport on Monday in an attempt to flee after the Taliban takeover of their nation.
https://www.nationalgeographic.com/history/article/as-the-taliban-rise-again-afghanistans-past-threatens-its-present
2022-06-20T15:25:32.265000+00:00
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Sumbul Rhea, 17, a student at Afghanistan’s National Institute of Music, is from a remote village in Nuristan. Her father was kidnapped and ransomed three times by the Taliban, she says, for letting his daughters study music.
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Samiullah, 16, a Taliban recruit accused of planting a bomb targeting Afghan troops, is in a juvenile rehabilitation center in Faizabad. His father, who commands an anti-Taliban militia, refused to sign papers for his son’s release.
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Kote Sangi bazaar in western Kabul hums with early morning activity during the Islamic holy month of Ramadan, in April. Nearly all of Afghanistan’s 39 million people are Muslim. Most are Sunnis; minority Shiites are targeted by Islamic State and the Taliban.
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Once a haven for provincial newcomers to Kabul from the minority Hazara ethnic group, the Dasht-e Barchi neighborhood in western Kabul has been targeted by Sunni terrorists, including those with Islamic State. In recent years, Shiite holy sites, a maternity hospital, and schools in this neighborhood have been attacked, leaving hundreds dead.
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In a suburban development on the outskirts of Kandahar, Cafe Delight entertains businessmen, officials, and boys with risqué music videos and sports, often past midnight. Women aren’t barred, but only a few have come in the two years since it opened. Under the Taliban, music and TV were banned and women couldn’t leave home without a male relative.
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Officer Abdul Ghafoor, 22, stands guard in Panjwai district in March 2021, a strategic spot on a road to the provincial capital of Kandahar, the birthplace of the fundamentalist Taliban, which the militants reclaimed on August 12. Ghafoor dreamed of studying medicine but took a risky job with the police for $165 a month. He says he wasn’t paid for half a year and had to delay his wedding.
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Hafiza gazes out the window of the small home near Faizabad where she took refuge after the Taliban seized her village in 2019. When one of her four sons joined the Taliban, Hafiza begged his commander to let him come home. “You’ve given two sons to the government and one to [anti-Taliban] militia,” she says he replied. “This one will be ours.”
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After four weeks at remote frontline positions in Badakhshan Province, off-duty Afghan soldiers trek five hours to reach the provincial capital, Faizabad. The Taliban took the area in early July, killing and capturing many soldiers and allied militiamen.
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Abdul Wahab, 28, a former Taliban fighter who joined an anti-Taliban militia, stands guard at a mud outpost in the Karsai Mountains in Badakhshan Province. Wahab and 18 others were killed when the Taliban overran Karsai Peak on July 2-3. Another 25 men were taken hostage.
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Commander Ayatullah, 48, a former mujahideen fighter, commanded a pro-government militia unit on Karsai Peak that included his 17-year-old son. He was killed in the July 2-3 battle.
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Farhad, 17, a son of Commander Ayatullah, was killed along with his father during the fight for Karsai Peak.
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Azimullah, 24, a pro-government fighter, was killed by the Taliban in the July 2-3 battle for Karsai Peak.
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Zubaidullah, 16, a pro-government fighter, was killed by the Taliban in the battle for Karsai Peak.
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Ethnic minority Uzbek girls emerge from Marshal Dostum High School in the northwestern city of Shibirghan, Jowzjan Province. The families of more than two dozen students relocated to the provincial capital after the Taliban seized the province’s southern districts and banned girls’ education again in 2018.
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Boys ages 7 to 14 memorize the Quran at a religious school, or madrassa, in Kandahar that educates and houses students from poor families nationwide. The school, which is not affiliated with the Taliban, has more than one thousand students who are taught Islamic studies rather than a public school curriculum.
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Every morning at the Ministry of Refugees and Repatriation in Kandahar, women and men displaced by fighting in districts contested by the Taliban line up seeking emergency food rations and small cash stipends. Nationwide, thousands are displaced weekly by fighting between the army and pro-government militias on one side and the Taliban on the other.
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Member of Parliament Raihana Azad rides through the streets of Kabul in a bulletproof SUV en route to a legislative session on International Women’s Day. The outspoken 38-year-old survived an assassination attempt and a suicide bombing. She moved her children overseas and fears she may have to follow if the Taliban return to power.
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Thousands of Hazara, minority Shiite Muslims, gather in Daykundi Province to mark Nowruz, the first day of spring. Nowruz is celebrated in Afghanistan, Iran, and Central Asia, but Sunni extremists deem the ancient Persian holiday un-Islamic. The Taliban regime banned it, and terrorists have bombed celebrations.
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On May 8, 2020, three bombs exploded outside a school in the Dasht-e Barchi neighborhood in western Kabul, killing some 90 people, mostly teenage girls. The explosion blasted the windows out of nearby homes, including this one.
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Families grieve at the graves of some of the estimated 90 victims of the May 8, 2020, school bombing in Kabul. The attack on the Hazara neighborhood followed several others on college-prep schools for Hazara youth headed to universities. Sunni terrorists have claimed responsibility for many of the attacks.
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Qari Mehrabuddin, a pro-government militia commander, sits with two of his five children in his home on the outskirts of Faizabad. He developed extremist views at a religious school, or madrassa, in neighboring Pakistan, and returned home to join the Taliban. After a dispute with Taliban leaders, he allied with government forces and, along with his former Taliban bodyguard, Abdul Qias (right), he now recruits militants to switch sides.
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Central Kabul seen from a departing airplane on a winter afternoon. A reconstruction boom fueled by foreign aid money has allowed the once dilapidated downtown, pictured in the distance, to swell into a commercial and residential hive of high-walled compounds, lavish condominiums, and wedding halls.
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Landlocked and mountainous, Afghanistan borders six countries and is dominated by the imposing Hindu Kush range, which towers here (upper left) over Kapisa Province. The country’s strategic location has drawn traders and invaders for millennia, while the rugged topography has stymied foreign and domestic armies and sheltered guerrillas.
https://www.nationalgeographic.com/science/article/heres-what-makes-earthquakes-so-devastating-in-haiti
2022-01-26T17:09:57.528000+00:00
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Shaking from the magnitude 7.2 earthquake crumbled houses and businesses in southwest Haiti, but the full impact of the event is not yet clear.
https://www.nationalgeographic.com/photo-of-the-day/media-spotlight/van-gogh-art-france-hospital
2021-08-14T00:50:19.818000+00:00
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Art Therapy
https://www.nationalgeographic.com/photo-of-the-day/media-spotlight/chameleon-gabon-rainforest-parks
2021-08-14T00:49:45.503000+00:00
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Cautious Chameleon
https://www.nationalgeographic.com/history/article/taliban-destroyed-afghanistan-ancient-treasures-will-history-repeat-itself
2021-08-16T22:20:36.880000+00:00
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Towering over the ancient city of Herat, the citadel that has served as fort, palace, treasury, prison, arsenal, and museum is now in the hands of Taliban forces.
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Taliban forces ransacked the National Museum of Afghanistan in early 2001, smashing images such as this Buddha head held by a curator.
https://www.nationalgeographic.com/environment/article/wildfire-smoke-linked-to-higher-covid-19-cases-death-rates
2021-08-13T18:05:34.064000+00:00
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Wildfire smoke contains dangerous pollution called particulate matter that may make some more vulnerable to COVID-19. Seen here, a firefighter monitors the huge plume from the out-of-control Apple Fire in Cherry Valley, California.
https://www.nationalgeographic.com/science/article/who-qualifies-for-a-coronavirus-booster-shot-why-its-still-unclear-
2021-08-13T17:12:04.379000+00:00
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A patient has blood drawn after receiving a kidney transplant. Some transplant recipients are now eligible to for a third COVID-19 shot to boost their defenses against the Delta variant.
https://www.nationalgeographic.com/science/article/why-kids-are-still-waiting-for-their-covid-19-vaccines
2021-08-13T16:34:04.952000+00:00
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With her husband Stephen by her side, Erin Shih hugs her children after their second doses of Moderna's COVID-19 vaccine on June 25. Ages 6 and 11, the kids are part of the clinical trials evaluating the vaccine's safety and efficacy in young children.
https://www.nationalgeographic.com/animals/article/california-voted-to-improve-pig-welfare-the-pork-industry-is-facing-a-reckoning
2021-08-13T15:30:36.347000+00:00
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Pregnant pigs at a farm in Iowa lie in gestation crates. They’re typically about 14 square feet—too small for pigs to turn around or stretch out. Critics say the crates are cruel; industry groups say they keep the pigs safe.
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Pigs await slaughter in a truck in Los Angeles. There are no federal laws in the U.S. regulating treatment of animals on farms, But some states have implemented bans on certain practices, such as keeping pigs, egg-laying hens, and veal calves in small enclosures.
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Pigs arrive at a slaughterhouse in Los Angeles in 2019. Some 125 million pigs are raised and slaughtered for meat in the United States each year. In 2018, Californians voted to ban pork from pigs born to mothers kept in gestation crates that restrict movement. The law, which goes into effect in January, has faced industry opposition.
https://www.nationalgeographic.com/science/article/how-covid-19-vaccines-are-getting-to-the-worlds-remotest-places
2022-01-26T17:09:56.666000+00:00
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A shepherd receives a dose of COVISHIELD—a COVID-19 vaccine manufactured by the Serum Institute of India—during a June vaccination campaign in the Indian territory of Jammu and Kashmir. Misinformation about the safety and side effects of the vaccine have proven an added hurdle for the region's health-care workers.
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A truck carries vaccines near the village of Jari in Zimbabwe in February 2021 during the first stage of the region's vaccination campaign. While vaccination rates have increased in recent months, the total number of doses delivered remains low. Only 13 percent of the country's population of nearly 14.9 million has received at least one dose.
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Army personnel in Peru carefully transport boxes full of Oxford-AstraZeneca vaccines through a rural region of the Andes on April 21, 2021. Lack of access to health care and low vaccination rates have led to the country suffering the highest rate of COVID-19 deaths per 100,000 people in the world.
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A nurse peers into a farmhouse window during a door-to-door vaccination campaign for COVID-19 in Somaglia, Italy, aimed at finding people unable to travel to vaccination centers.
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A nurse crawls beneath a barbed wire fence while moving from house to house on a vaccination campaign in Chaguani, Colombia, on April 8, 2021. Depending on the treacherousness of the terrain they must travel, the team can administer Novavax doses to 12 to 18 people per day.
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Saturia Campos, 80, grasps her vaccination card after a vaccination campaign traveled to Chaguani, Colombia, to deliver life-saving doses to senior citizens.
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Health workers talk to Kashmiri nomads during a COVID-19 vaccination campaign on June 21, 2021. A major challenge of rural vaccination campaigns has been the onslaught of vaccine misinformation fueling incorrect beliefs that the shots carry high risk of severe or deadly side effects.
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Rafiq Khan, a resident of India's Uttar Batora Island, receives a dose of COVISHIELD vaccine during a door-to-door vaccination and testing campaign in June 2021.
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Residents of Islesford, Maine—Lindsay Eysnogle and her daughter Marina Pickering (left) as well as Kaitlyn Miller (center)—celebrate getting their COVID-19 vaccines on March 19, 2021. A short boat trip transported the vaccines from the mainland to the eager residents of Little Cranberry Island.
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Steve Robbins leads his sled dog team across a frozen lake after helping at a vaccination site in Eagle, Alaska, on March 31, 2021. Despite the rugged landscape and often challenging conditions, the state has strong vaccination rates, largely due to the tireless efforts by health organizations of Alaska Native communities.
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Health workers sit on a platform as they cross the Camaná portion of Peru’s Colca River to inoculate older residents with the Pfizer-BioNTech COVID-19 vaccine on July 2, 2021.
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An official unloads COVID-19 vaccines from an airplane after landing on the Azores' island of Corvo on March 10, 2021. At the time, around 85 percent of the island's population of roughly 400 people had received vaccinations—which means the residents have largely been spared from the pandemic's worst impacts.
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Health-care workers travel along the upper stretches of the Amazon River in Brazil in February 2021 carrying doses of the AstraZeneca-Oxford COVID-19 vaccine to administer to populations who dwell along the waterway's lush banks.
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Seasonal farmworkers in the village of Oguzlar, Turkey, wait to be vaccinated by health-care workers, who arrived with doses of the Pfizer-BioNTech and Sinovac vaccines in tow in July 2021. Turkey has administered more than 80 million doses of COVID-19 vaccines—enough to fully vaccinate almost half of the country's population.
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Anselmo Tunubala, an indigenous nurse of the Misak ethnic group, searches the Colombian forest for elderly people who have yet to be vaccinated for COVID-19. She completes this trek daily to find locals she can persuade to get their vaccines by explaining the importance of the shots in their native language. The community's indigenous people have resisted vaccination due to ancestral beliefs in plant-based medicine and the recommendations of religious leaders.
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Nurse Anselmo Tunubala prepares to give a shot of the Sinovac vaccine to an elderly indigenous man in Colombia's Guambia indigenous reservation on April 14, 2021.
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An accident left Herminia Bacilio unable to walk, so a medical team went to her home on the outskirts of Mexico City to deliver a shot of the Oxford-AstraZeneca vaccine on February 18, 2021. Mexico City's health department has directed medical teams to give in-home vaccinations, such as the one Bacilio received, for elderly residents unable to reach vaccination centers.
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Montana's small town of Cooke City, which has a population of 63, set up a COVID-19 vaccination clinic at the firehouse. Alex Baukus, the Park County public health director, and Ryan Trzcinski avidly wait for people to arrive to get their shots.
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A nurse vaccinates a sick elderly woman in her room at a nursing home in Langreo, Spain, on January 22, 2021. The country quickly rolled out vaccination campaigns and has one of the world’s highest vaccination rates. Yet prioritizing elderly residents and other vulnerable groups has left younger citizens at risk as the Delta variant spreads rapidly and causes many people to develop severe cases of the disease.
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Silhouetted against the sky, a team of health-care workers carries vaccine-filled coolers across a grassy field during a vaccination campaign in Kars, Turkey, in May. The team formed to transport vaccines to Turkey’s most remote regions, trekking from meadows to mountains.
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With a cooler of COVID-19 vaccines in hand, health-care worker Nazir Ahmed searches for shepherds and nomadic herders among the rolling hills southwest of the city of Srinagar in the Indian territory of Jammu and Kashmir in June.
https://www.nationalgeographic.com/travel/article/the-hidden-history-of-japanese-incarceration-in-world-war-ii-era-hawaii
2022-01-26T17:10:03.403000+00:00
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A 1940s photo shows the barracks at Honouliuli Internment Camp, where thousands of prisoners of war and Japanese Americans were incarcerated during World War II. Proclaimed a National Historic Site in 2019, the former camp is currently being researched and should one day open to visitors.
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A drawing by a Japanese American detainee in the 1940s depicts Honouliuli Internment Camp. It’s among artifacts from the camp on display at the Japanese Cultural Center of Hawaii in Honolulu.
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Kilauea Military Camp, inside Hawaii Volcanoes National Park, was used as an internment site for Japanese Americans and POWs during World War II.
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During World War II, the U.S. military strung barbed wire along Honolulu’s Waikiki Beach to prevent enemy attacks.
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Vines cover a fence in current-day Honolulu.
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Waves hit the shore at Waialae Beach in Honolulu, not far from interment camps where Japanese Americans were held against their will during World War II.
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A monk prepares for a traditional dance festival at Honolulu’s Nichiren Mission, which practices a Japanese form of Buddhism. Religious sites frequented by Japanese Americans were shut down during World War II due to racist sentiments.
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The Kilauea Military Camp was used as an internment site for Japanese Americans and POWs during World War II.
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The Honouliuli Internment and POW Camp on the Hawaiian island of Oahu is pictured during World War II. Japanese Americans were wrongly imprisoned here during the early 1940s, and it’s one of multiple nearly forgotten sites around the islands related to this shameful, racist era in United States history.
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2021-08-13T13:14:19.351000+00:00
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Building the Wall
https://www.nationalgeographic.com/travel/slideshow/paid-content-the-perfect-idaho-road-trip
2021-09-02T15:55:31.868000+00:00
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Idaho Road landscape
https://www.nationalgeographic.com/environment/article/does-smokey-bear-need-a-makeover-to-prevent-more-wildfires
2021-08-12T19:44:15.951000+00:00
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A wildland firefighter monitors a controlled burn in Branson, Colorado. Scientists say controlled burns are becoming more necessary as more people move into areas prone to wildfires.
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2021-08-12T18:01:22.524000+00:00
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The split mammoth tusk (foreground) sits in the Alaska Stable Isotope Facility at the University of Alaska Fairbanks. In the background, researcher Karen Spaleta prepares a piece of the tusk for the isotopic analyses that revealed the mammoth’s full life history.
Elephants 101
As the world's largest land mammal, elephants have quite the commanding presence. But did you know elephants can't jump? Or that baby elephants lose their first set of teeth and tusks, just like humans? Learn about both Asian and African elephants and the threats facing these highly intelligent animals today.
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https://www.nationalgeographic.com/travel/article/explorers-guide-8
2021-08-12T16:55:28.975000+00:00
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Tourists to the Monterey Bay Aquarium watch an ocean sunfish (also known as a mola mola).
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Just below the California-Oregon border, Jedediah Smith Redwood State Park promises fairy-tale rainforest paths through towering redwood groves and secret rope swings over trickling creeks. Hunt for banana slugs, pitch a tent (dogs are allowed at campsites), and snorkel in the Smith River, the longest free-flowing river in California.
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Once home to the “crookedest railroad in the world,” Mount Tamalpais’s scenic drives and hiking trails just north of San Francisco still tempt travelers today with sweeping edge-of-the-world views and knee-buckling hairpin turns. Visit in May or June for the annual outdoor Mountain Play, performed in a stone amphitheater dating to the 1930s.
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There are more than a dozen dramatic waterfalls throughout Yosemite National Park, all best seen in spring when snowmelt and rainfall put on a spectacular show. The 2,425-foot-high Yosemite Falls is one of the world’s tallest waterfalls and one of the only places to witness a “moonbow,” a rainbow best glimpsed on a clear spring night under a full moon.
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Point Lobos is the ultimate nature reserve—a place where you can scuba dive with sea otters and gray whales in the morning, visit a historic Chinese fishermen’s cabin in the afternoon, and then sunbathe with seals beside a cobalt cove.
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The evergreen-fringed gem of Sierra National Forest, Bass Lake sits just 30 minutes south of Yosemite’s south entrance. The lake averages a balmy 75°F during the summer—perfect for water sports, including jet skiing and paddleboarding. Angel Falls, located on the northern end, is a scenic spot for a dip.
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Chico’s 3,670-acre Bidwell Park is one of the country’s largest city parks. Golden fishing holes dot Bidwell’s stretch of Big Chico Creek and an extra-large swimming pool dating to the 1930s offers free admission. Other popular activities include paragliding, disc golf, mountain biking, and observatory stargazing.
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Redwood trees first set their roots down roughly 240 million years ago. Today they convert more carbon dioxide to oxygen than any other plant on Earth. Only 45 minutes from Silicon Valley, Portola Redwoods State Park is a 2,800-acre haven of waterfalls, lush glens, logging roads turned mountain bike paths, and old-growth redwoods—some more than 35 feet in circumference.
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Shady hiking trails along Northern California’s Yuba River cross boardwalks and dogwood groves to an abundance of picturesque swimming holes, all against the backdrop of the Sierra Nevadas. Head out early to have Edward’s Crossing and Hoyt’s Crossing all to yourself.
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See coho salmon spawn, swim in Lagunitas Creek, or hike through quiet redwood forests to Barnabe Peak in Samuel P. Taylor State Park, just a few miles northwest of Lagunitas. In the summer, California State Parks and local collaborative One Tam host a “Zen of Weeding” event where volunteers work together to remove invasive species from the park—the perfect opportunity to help while you hike.
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South of San Mateo County’s Halfmoon Bay, Martin’s Beach is punctuated by Pacific waves, dramatic bluffs, and Sharkfin Rock—an arched sea stack frequented by starfish, brown pelicans, and avid surfers. Far from city lights, the wide sandy beach is also a great location for stargazing.
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Death Valley’s four-mile Mosaic Canyon makes for a family-friendly scramble. Just remember to check the weather and bring water—summer temperatures can reach 108°F, and unexpected flash floods are the very phenomenon that created the valley’s snaking slot canyons.
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Bordered by Gold Rush towns and the snow-topped Sierra Nevada mountains, Carpenter Valley is preserved and protected by the Truckee Donner Land Trust. Docents lead five-mile-long hikes through wetland, fen, and forest habitats, which are home to black bears, mountain lions, bobcats, and coyotes.
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Forty miles of hiking trails cross the fern-floored forest of Butano State Park, founded in 1957 to protect second and third-growth redwoods from logging. Butano’s misty atmosphere refreshes resident newts, banana slugs, orchids, redwoods (which consume 30 percent of their water through fog), and intrepid mountain bikers riding the 12-mile Butano Rim.
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On the eastern edge of the Santa Cruz Mountains, Uvas Canyon County Park’s one-mile waterfall loop stretches through half a dozen rushing, moss-lined waterfalls. Uvas Canyon is native habitat for the flowering shrub yerba santa, long cultivated by Native California tribes for medicinal use. Today the plant is being studied as a treatment for Alzheimer’s.
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A subrange of the Klamath Mountains, the Trinity Alps Wilderness is the second largest wilderness area in California, with summits up to 9,000 feet. Hundred-year-old horseback riding trails, once used by miners and pioneers, wind past wildflower meadows, craggy mountain peaks, and willow-lined creeks.
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Adjacent to Golden Gate Park, San Francisco’s Ocean Beach is the birthplace of wet suits and a beloved, though challenging, surfing venue. The beach’s quirky history makes for unique sightseeing—from Sutro Baths to tombstone seawalls to the shipwrecked King Philip.
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Sonoma County’s Salt Point State Park protects underwater marine habitat, coastal meadows, and thick forests of Douglas firs, oaks, and Pacific madrones. The park is named for its coastal salt deposits, once scraped and harvested by Kashaya Pomo Native Americans. Explore the wave-worn tafoni rock formations in South Girstle Cove, where tide pools sparkle with red abalone, sea urchins, crabs, and starfish.
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At Hendy Woods State Park, 2.5 hours north of San Francisco, the 1.6-mile wheelchair-accessible Discovery Trail curves through gray fox habitat, spring-blooming irises, and thousand-year-old redwoods. The park’s pebbly Navarro River is a favorite for canoeing, kayaking, and swimming.
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Formed by volcanic faults more than 20 million years ago, Pinnacles National Park is a jungle gym for rock climbers, spelunkers, condors, cougars, and some 400 species of bees. Photographer Mason Trinca suggests a sunrise or sunset hike up Condor Gulch Trail or High Peaks trail for prime photo ops, but reminds visitors to “set the camera aside, enjoy the sunset, and soak up the views.”
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First inhabited 8,000 years ago by the Calendaru people, Moss Landing’s marshy location along Elkhorn Slough makes it one of the best places in the country for birding. Pelicans, snowy plovers, nesting ducks, and more than a hundred other bird species can be spotted in a single day.
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Along California’s Central Coast, Fisherman’s Wharf is the launching point for several wildlife watching tours in Monterey Bay.
https://www.nationalgeographic.com/animals/article/kenyas-orphaned-elephants-goats-to-the-rescue
2022-01-26T17:10:24.704000+00:00
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A herd of elephants passes through an area southeast of Reteti Elephant Sanctuary. Because orphaned elephants at Reteti are raised close to where they were rescued, some eventually are able to return to their herds.
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Goats and cattle are the cornerstone of Samburu livelihoods in northern Kenya.
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Young Meibae reaches out to keeper Naomi Leshongoro.
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Keeper Lemarash Kalteyo greets a baby elephant the traditional way a Samburu elder would a child. Placing the palm of the right hand on the head is a way of passing on the goodness of one’s spirit.
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Samburu women walk to a wedding near the Reteti sanctuary. The sanctuary is in Namunyak, a community-owned conservancy.
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A security team with the nonprofit Northern Rangelands Trust helps protect wildlife in northern Kenya’s conservancies, where pastoralists, livestock, and wild animals share space, grazing land, and water—an increasingly scarce resource.
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In a noisy, slurpy affair, orphaned elephants at Reteti get a bottle of formula about every three hours. The switch from baby formula to a goat milk-based diet has been good for the calves’ health, says Katie Rowe, co-founder of Reteti.
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A knit blanket covers the intravenous catheter delivering fluids to an orphaned elephant. Estimated to be about a month old, she became separated from her herd after she fell into a well and couldn’t get out. Such accidents are becoming more common as communities must dig deeper wells to deal with persistent droughts caused by climate change.
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A Samburu woman pours fresh goat milk into a container, which Reteti staff will come collect. During the pandemic, when livestock markets closed and tourism to wildlife conservancies dropped, selling milk to Reteti helped families continue to send children to school, pay medical bills, and buy food, pastoralist Stamen Lemajong says.
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Women head home after selling goat milk to Reteti.
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Goats are corralled in a manyatta, or traditional Samburu family compound, near Reteti. Overgrazing by livestock has degraded much of the pasture in Namunyuk, but Reteti is working with pastoralists to implement sustainable grazing practices.
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Nturuyayi Lengees collects milk to bring to the sanctuary.
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Mike Learka cools the goat's milk off after pasteurizing it for the elephants at Reteti.
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Two elephants try to stop keeper Lemarash Kalteyo from walking away after mealtime.
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Mary Lengees, one of the first female keepers at Reteti, spends time with Shaba in 2017. The calf was rescued by the sanctuary in 2016 after losing her mother to poachers and had a hard time adjusting. Shaba eventually gained confidence, and until her release in 2019, helped welcome each new orphan.
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At the Reteti Elephant Sanctuary in northern Kenya, orphaned calves such as Hamsini, above, used to be fed imported human infant formula. Now many drink a formula made of local goat milk, which is cheaper, more sustainable, and easier to source.
https://www.nationalgeographic.com/photo-of-the-day/media-spotlight/elephant-orphan-raincoat-kenya
2021-08-12T13:26:45.276000+00:00
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Elephant Orphan
https://www.nationalgeographic.com/family/article/the-challenge-of-teaching-race-in-the-classroom
2022-01-20T21:52:31.280000+00:00
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A girl holds up a sign at a June 12 rally in Leesburg, Virginia, protesting the teaching of what some call critical race theory in schools.
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Demonstrators argue during a protest against what some call critical race theory before a school board meeting in Louisville, Kentucky, on July 27.
https://www.nationalgeographic.com/magazine/article/inspiring-the-next-generation-of-scientists-of-color
2022-06-20T15:32:21.495000+00:00
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Wildlife ecologist Rae Wynn-Grant promotes diversity in the sciences as well as biodiversity in the natural world.
https://www.nationalgeographic.com/magazine/article/the-magnetic-chomp-of-a-venus-flytrap-and-more-dispatches-from-sciences-front-lines
2022-07-06T19:27:13.557000+00:00
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This glove trapped a fish—just one example of the menace posed to wildlife when personal protective equipment is discarded improperly.
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The first known fossilized feather, believed to be 150 million years old, was found 160 years ago in Bavaria, Germany.
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New research has found that a Venus flytrap in action produces a small magnetic field, a rarity in plants.
https://www.nationalgeographic.com/history/article/500-years-after-aztec-rule-mexico-confronts-complicated-anniversary
2021-10-18T14:26:40.329000+00:00
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This collage map, made by photographer Eunice Adorno, features archival photographs of important ancient routes and monuments in Tenochtitlan, as well moments from the city's history. The base of the map is a blue plastic widely used by modern merchants in Mexico City, and represents the water on which Tenochtitlan was established some 700 years ago.
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A 1556 woodcut plan of the island city of Tenochtitlan.
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A view of the borough of Iztapalapa in Mexico City. Cortés' troops marched through this landscape 500 years ago to reach the Aztec stronghold of Tenochtitlan.
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A painting in the British Embassy collection in Mexico City depicts Cortés' retreat from Tenochtitlan in May 1520. According to tradition, on the evening of his defeat, Cortés sat beneath a cypress tree and wept.
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The Capture of Tenochtitlan, by an unknown painter, is one of eight panels in the Library of Congress that depict the events of 1521. Created 150 years later, they also reveal late 16th-century attitudes on the Spanish colonization of Mexico.
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A large model of the main Aztec temple, the Templo Mayor, rises in Mexico City's central square ahead of the 500th anniversary of the fall of Tenochtitlan. The ruins of the ancient Templo Mayor are located just off the square.
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A dancer dressed in feathers stands in front of the 16th-century Metropolitan Cathedral on the zocalo, or main square, of Mexico City. Dancers commemorate the founding of Tenochtitlan each year.
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Jaime and Valeria pose on Mexico City's historic Corregidora Street. The couple enjoy participating in traditional dances in downtown Mexico City.
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Sculptures are shielded from rain in an excavated section of the Templo Mayor. A hailstorm in April of this year damaged protective roofing on the site, exposing parts of the temple to the elements.
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The Calzada (Avenue) de los Misterios, also known as Calzada del Tepeyac, was one of three great roads that led to the island capital of Tenochtitlan. The monument celebrating the Mysteries of the Rosary was built during colonial times.
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Visitors rest on a monument to Cortés in the Cortés Pass in Amecameca, some 35 miles east of Mexico City. His troops crossed the pass, 11,800 feet above sea level, to reach Tenochtitlan.
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A corner of the Old Palace of the Counts of Santiago de Calimaya, today the Museum of Mexico City, features a snake carving that once graced an Aztec pyramid.
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A shrine to Ehecatl, a Mesoamerican god of air and winds, is showcased that the Pino Suarez metro station in Mexico City where it was discovered. Vendors around the metro station sell clothing and other products.
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Aztec emperor Moctezuma is depicted surrendering to Cortés in this 1807 engraving.
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Tenochtitlan is documented in a 1524 map that accompanied the first European publication of Cortés' letters to the Spanish king.
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Bicycle taxis await customers in Amecameca, Mexico. The Spanish colonization of Mexico sparked a rapid phase of globalization that continues to this day.
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*NEW* Mendoza Codex depicting the mexican coat of arms . 16th century. Unknown CodexMendoza01
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Generations of Mexican schoolchildren were taught the story of the Tree of the Sad Night, where Spanish conquistador Hernán Cortés wept after being routed by Aztec forces at Tenochtitlan (modern downtown Mexico City). New signage also designates the tree (which nearly burned down in 1980 in a fireworks mishap) the “Tree of the Victorious Night” and “Tree of the Happy Night, here he cried.”
https://www.nationalgeographic.com/family/article/yes-you-can-get-kids-to-wear-masks-coronavirus
2022-01-20T22:09:14.376000+00:00
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https://www.nationalgeographic.com/science/article/mystery-swirls-around-nasa-perseverance-rovers-failed-sample-attempt
2021-08-11T22:51:41.357000+00:00
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During Perseverance's first sampling attempt, the rover drilled a hole in Mars’s surface, shown here, but it didn’t recover a small core of rock as planned.
https://www.nationalgeographic.com/science/article/the-world-needs-more-vaccines-faster-a-tiny-tube-could-make-all-the-difference
2021-08-11T17:16:34.013000+00:00
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A tubular bioreactor prototype designed by scientists in Germany produces viruses for vaccination in a more space-efficient and speedy manner than traditional, large tanks used by vaccine manufacturers.
https://www.nationalgeographic.com/science/article/nasa-osiris-rex-spacecraft-finds-asteroid-bennu-slightly-more-likely-to-hit-earth
2021-08-11T17:50:32.044000+00:00
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Though the risk remains low, NASA scientists have found that the asteroid Bennu, shown here, has a higher chance of hitting Earth in the next 300 years than thought.
https://www.nationalgeographic.com/animals/article/inside-the-murky-world-of-dolphin-therapy
2021-08-11T17:50:47.610000+00:00
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Zachary Bode has been unable to speak or move his limbs since his car accident in 2015. His family turned to dolphin therapy to help aid his recovery.
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Weeks before Zachary’s accident, Kamin Bode celebrated her new job at the Ocala, Florida, police department with him.
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At dolphin-assisted therapy sessions in the Bahamas, run by Integrative Intentions, participants spend time in an enclosure with bottlenose dolphins, rented from a company that also uses them for swim-with-dolphin tourism.
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Dolphin-assisted therapy programs are premised on the idea that spending time with dolphins can help treat a range of human health problems. Here, Leonardo Araujo, 12, swims with Amazon river dolphins in northern Brazil.
https://www.nationalgeographic.com/history/article/a-tight-knit-island-nation-hopes-to-rebuild-while-preserving-the-barbudan-way
2022-01-26T17:10:11.889000+00:00
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In the eastern Caribbean, Barbuda is in a fight to preserve its land, culture, and way of life as developers seize land to turn the small island into a tourist destination.
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Historical scrapbook
Historical scrapbook of images of Barbuda.
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Manager's House, Barbuda, taken at the period of occupancy by Robert Dougall, 1886.
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Historical map of Barbuda
Historical map of Barbuda.
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Phosphate mines of Barbuda showing excavations by Robert Dougall, 1886.
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Stables at end of fort, during occupancy of Robert Dougall,1886.
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Children jump off the wharf into the Codrington Lagoon in Barbuda. Barbudans have participated in activities and built a fishing industry that allows the protected spaces along the coast and within the lagoon to thrive.
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Aerial view of the Codrington Village in Codrington, Barbuda. Hurricane Irma inflicted catastrophic damages when it swept through the island in 2017. Storm surge changed its landscape.
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A horse walks among damaged government buildings on the nearly destroyed island of Barbuda on December 8, 2017. Barbuda, which covers only 62 square miles, was nearly leveled when Hurricane Irma made landfall with 185mph winds on Sept. 6, 2017. Only two days later, fearing Barbuda would be hit again by Hurricane Jose, the prime minister ordered an evacuation of all residents. Most had to seek shelter in Barbuda's much larger sister island Antigua.
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Deondre Cox and Maverick Weatherhead haul debris with retired U.S. military veteran Mike Harris on Barbuda in January of 2018. Harris and Sean Charles led the grass-roots initiative, RebuildBarbuda, to unite Barbudans to help clean up and rebuild after the storm.
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Codrington Village sits adjacent to the Codrington Lagoon in Barbuda. In the aftermath of Hurricane Irma in September 2017, the Antigua and Barbuda government repealed the Barbuda Land Act, changing the definition of who is Barbudan, stripping Barbudans of communal land rights, and paving the way for major development.
https://www.nationalgeographic.com/travel/article/pastis-an-iconic-french-aperitif-makes-a-comeback
2022-01-26T17:10:05.534000+00:00
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Distilleries et Domaines de Provence uses custom-made copper stills to produce Henri Bardouin, one of the most popular artisanal pastis brands in the region.
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A staff member plucks rosemary from the garden at Château Creissauds in Aubagne. Fresh herbs drive the flavors of the pastis produced at the chateau’s Maison Ferroni distillery.
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Guillaume Ferroni holds star anise and licorice in his hands. Both herbs are the main ingredients in the pastis made at Maison Ferroni.
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A Mauresque cocktail is served alfresco on Île de Bendor, with views of the town of Bandol in the distance. A Mauresque is a pastis made with Orgeat, a sweet almond syrup, and diluted with plenty of water.
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La Pastisserie, in Aix-en-Provence, highlights lesser-known pastis brands.
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Pastis distillers, such as Château des Creissauds’s Maison Ferroni (pictured here), are reimagining the classic Provence drink with fresh botanicals and unique processes.
https://www.nationalgeographic.com/photo-of-the-day/media-spotlight/chile-mountains-national-park
2021-08-11T13:27:31.293000+00:00
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Torres del Paine
https://www.nationalgeographic.com/science/article/why-this-years-perseid-meteor-shower-will-be-one-to-watch
2021-08-11T15:25:06.173000+00:00
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A Perseid meteor streaks over sandstone cliffs at the World Heritage site of Meteora in Greece.
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https://www.nationalgeographic.com/culture/article/covid-19-threatened-alaskas-fishing-industry-but-fishermen-fought-back--and-won
2022-01-26T17:10:03.806000+00:00
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Timothy Poole, safety officer coordinator for Silver Bay Seafoods, the largest industry employer in Naknek, works with Nurse Lawanda Pulley to do temperature checks on quarantined workers who had recently arrived from overseas. Silver Bay Seafoods, like other processors in the Bristol Bay region, operate as closed campuses, which means that once workers arrive, they are not permitted to go into the town or leave, a measure that was put in place during the 2020 season to prevent the spread of COVID-19 to local populations.
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Thomas Tilden, First Chief of the Curyung Tribal Council and a commercial fisherman, poses for a portrait in his yard in Dillingham, Alaska. He was among local and tribal groups who organized and petitioned the Alaska government and industry officials for strict regulations for fishermen and processing plants. Tilden, who has been fishing since he was a toddler, remembers listening to elders talk about the 1919 Spanish flu epidemic, which was thorough and ruthless in its devastation, leaving behind many orphans in the region.
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The LFS boatyard in Naknek in June. Last year, fishermen had to call local stores for parts and food, and rely on runners to bring them the materials. This year, fishermen are able to walk around the yard and are not strictly confined to their boats.
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View from the small boat harbor in Dillingham, which opens into the Wood River, a tributary of the Nushagak River.
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Susie Jenkins-Brito stacks nets into bags before the start of the season. Jenkins-Brito is a nurse and a commercial fisherman. The pandemic was top of mind in 2020, when it was unclear as to whether the fishery would open for salmon fishing as usual given the community fear of a COVID-19 outbreak.
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A cemetery in Naknek, Alaska, where nets and photographs of fishing adorn some of the graves. Naknek’s commercial fishing industry started in the late 1800’s.
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Roylene Gottschalk
Gottschalk stands for a portrait on her property in Naknek, Alaska. Gottschalk grew up in Naknek hearing stories about the 1919 Spanish flu epidemic, and when news about the coronavirus spread, she was worried. A member of the tribal council and an active community member, Gottschalk, who has been involved in fishing since early in her life, was among the voices who called for strict protocols on the processing plants and fishermen coming to Naknek from outside. Graves from the era of the Spanish flu epidemic are still being pulled from the banks, she said. She was told as a child that the virus was still alive in the remains. She says that she, although coming from a long line of fishermen and being part of a fishing family, was personally adamant to close the fishery. “If you do not learn, history repeats itself,” she says.
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Melissa Davis and Max Mancuso
Davis and Mancuso are the newest owners of the Red Dog Inn, which has been a frequented haunt for 50 years. They purchased the local dive bar during the pandemic. The couple says that when Lynn Johnson, the former owner of the establishment who had owned it for 49 years, put the bar up for sale, they feared that a non-local would purchase the property or that it would be altogether lost. So they bought it. They were celebrating their decision to purchase the property in Saint Thomas, US Virgin Islands, at the start of the U.S.’s acknowledgement of the pandemic. Mancuso, also a fisherman, was hit in the pandemic in two ways; the bar that he and his partner were in the process of buying could not operate during the summer months, which are the busiest ones of the year in Naknek, and the strict mandates put in place for fishermen made fishing untenable for Mancuso as well. But the couple is hopeful. Davis has created a food program for the establishment that so far has been a success she says. Mancuso has chosen to lease out his permit and his boat this year to focus on building up the business at the Red Dog Inn. He believes that businesses like the Red Dog are important to the community because they circulate money directly within the community, while much of the revenue made from fishing leaves after the season ends.
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Alannah Hurley
Hurley stands for a portrait outside of her home in Dillingham, Alaska. A commercial fisherman, captain, and the executive director of the United Tribes of Bristol Bay, Hurley was active in organizing and petitioning the government for safer protocols during the commercial fishing season in 2020. “I was so thankful for our leadership, and the fact that our leadership said we’re not repeating history, we’re not doing this anymore, where industry and so-called economies outweigh the value of our people. We aren’t going to stand by and allow that to happen. We demand more. And I think Bristol Bay has been doing that for a while. If you look at the Pebble issue, we’re justnot willing to have a seat at the table, we’re going to run our own table, and we are not going to allow others to dictate our future,” says Hurley.
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Jeremy Kern
Kern is a port foreman at the port of Naknek. In 2020 and again in 2021, the port has been closed to the public to limit interaction between out of state workers and the local population during the pandemic.
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Thomas Glass
Glass, a fisherman from Dillingham, Alaska, did not fish during the 2020 season. When things felt uncertain in the spring and much less was known about the novel coronavirus, he told his crew that he couldn't guarantee that he would go out even if the fishery moved ahead, and that they should look for other boats to work with. He moved his boat from the boatyard to his home to avoid the crowds and chose to work a construction job for the summer instead. This year, Glass went out with a new crew but worked on his boat, the Brown Dog, in his yard at home.
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Rubis and Margaret Gervais play near their mother's boat in the PAF Marine Services boatyard while she works on getting ready for the season. Gervais says this year feels more normal than last year, when the children couldn’t visit with all of their neighboring boats.
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During the pandemic, conversations about the 1919 Spanish flu epidemic, which ravaged communities in the Bristol Bay region, were a part of the discourse about whether or not to open up the lucrative commercial fishing season. Bristol Bay implemented strict protocols at the insistence of its communities, and there was not one documented case of COVID-19 in the local population in Dillingham until the fall. Statewide, Alaska Natives have the highest death rate from COVID-19 of any other group.
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A four-wheeler drives down a road in Naknek, Alaska. During the second season of the pandemic, locals say that the streets are still much quieter than they would have been in years past.
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South Carolina Captain Taylor Kirkman (right) works on his boat, the “Jezeriah,” with Everett Lee (left), his crewman and long-time best friend who now lives in Hawaii. Commercial fishing operates in tight quarters, which is why if one person contracts COVID-19, the entire boat must quarantine aboard.
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Meghan Gervais cleans up after feeding her children, Margaret and Rubis, in their locker in the PAF boatyard.
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Nighttime in Naknek, where in the summer months the days are long. Near the solstice, the sun does not set until close to midnight, and even then, the sky doesn’t fully darken before the sun rises a few hours later.
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The Naknek River is 35-miles long and flows into Kvichak Bay, an arm of Bristol Bay, host to the largest sockeye salmon run in the world.
https://www.nationalgeographic.com/travel/article/are-public-pools-americas-last-great-communal-spaces
2021-08-13T17:45:56.238000+00:00
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DAVID SQUARE PARK POOL, ILLINOIS
A girl cannonballs into a public pool in Chicago, Illinois.
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TURKEY LAKE POOL, FLORIDA
Outdoor showers provide another mingling spot for swimmers at this Orlando public pool surrounded by tropical trees.
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Iowa Pool
A swimmer makes a dramatic dive at a public pool flanked by cornfields in a farming community in Iowa. Public pools began popping up in cities and small towns at the turn of the 20th century, propelled by civic pushes for health and hygiene.
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NORTHWEST POOL, FLORIDA
Children pose and play at a public pool in Orlando, Florida.
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Sunny Pool
Kids and families chill out at a two-mile long outdoor pool near Los Angeles, California. Built in the 1940s, it is fed by local dams.
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HANSEN DAM POOL, CALIFORNIA
A family gathers in the shallow end of the water at this public pool in Los Angeles.
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Pool play
Patrons play in a pool floating in the Hudson River in the Bronx neighborhood of New York City.
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Cheering at the pool
Swimmers cheer people jumping off the diving board at this public pool in northwest Washington, D.C. Banneker opened in the 1930s to Black residents; like all public pools in the U.S., it is now fully integrated.
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VILLISCA POOL, IOWA
A brother and sister stand by the public pool in Villisca, a small town in Iowa.
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CHIPPEWA FALLS SWIMMING POOL, WISCONSIN
Siblings goof around at the Chippewa Falls Pool.
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Pool Jump
Kids plunge into the water at Highbridge Pool in the Washington Heights neighborhood of New York City. Built in 1936 via the Depression-era Works Progress Administration, it was one of multiple aquatic centers that opened in the early 20th century.
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Under Water
A boy swims underwater at an indoor public pool in Los Angeles, California.
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The Astoria Pool in Queens, New York offers dazzling views of the Robert F. Kennedy Bridge. It’s one of thousands of public pools in the United States, which have offered a place for people to cool off and socialize for decades.
https://www.nationalgeographic.com/animals/article/three-legged-lion-uganda-symbol-of-hope
2021-08-10T16:08:41.893000+00:00
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The snare wound of Jacob’s first injury in October of 2019. Despite a deep gash, the Uganda Wildlife Authority and partner NGOs managed to save his leg with a rapid response.
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Uganda Conservation Foundation veterinarian Mustafa Nsubuga holds up the severed leg Jacob lost in the wheel trap in August 2020. After multiple rounds of treatment by several people, including Nsubuga, Eric Enyel, Bazil Alidria, and others, the wound healed and today Jacob gets by on three legs.
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Jacob walking through Queen Elizabeth in early February 2021. By this time Jacob's leg wound had healed over, roughly five months after injury. He was already able to keep up with his pride and even helping to hunt.
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Jacob resting in the branches of a large fig tree in Uganda’s Queen Elizabeth National Park, where lions have developed a culture of tree-climbing. Photographed here in 2018, Jacob had not yet lost his leg, but even today he’s still able to climb trees.
Filmmaker Reflects on Tragic Poisoning of Lion Cubs in Uganda
April 18, 2018 - National Geographic explorer Alexander Braczkowski knew these lion cubs better than almost anyone. He was blindsided when 8 of them were killed by poison.
https://link.theplatform.com/s/ngs/media/guid/2423130747/00000162-da25-d72d-a9fa-dbf5b3d80000
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https://www.nationalgeographic.com/photo-of-the-day/media-spotlight/lion-kalahari-africa-desert
2021-08-10T13:14:17.957000+00:00
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Lion's Mane
https://www.nationalgeographic.com/animals/article/newfound-carnivorous-plant-lives-in-mountain-bogs
2021-08-09T19:08:47.892000+00:00
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A close-up of the sticky hairs of false asphodel stained using a fluorescent die, which trap and kill small insects.
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Western false asphodel has pretty white flowers and hairs on its stalk that can trap and digest insects.
https://www.nationalgeographic.com/environment/article/greeces-fires-cause-choking-smoke-threaten-heritage-sites
2022-01-26T17:10:06.631000+00:00
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Firefighters take on a forest fire north of Athens on August 5.
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People board a ferry to evacuate ahead of a wildfire approaches the seaside village of Limni, on the island of Evia, on August 6.
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Smoke covers Athens with the Acropolis in the background as fires burn about 20 miles away around Mount Parnes, on August 5.
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A firefighter and a volunteer try to put out a fire in Afidnes, some 20 miles from the Greek capital of Athens, on Aug. 6, 2021. Greek authorities say arson is partly responsible for some of the wildfires across the country.
https://www.nationalgeographic.com/travel/article/inside-the-battle-to-save-a-sprawling-national-forest-in-california
2022-04-26T19:54:53.639000+00:00
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Deanna Lynn Wulff as a child (left) in the southern Sierra Nevada. Wulff as a Sequoia National Park ranger (right) in 2008. Her Unite the Parks campaign aims to shift management of the Sierra National Forest to the National Park Service.
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Piute Canyon is part of the John Muir Wilderness in Sierra National Forest. Its woods and waters are home to a wealth of wildlife, including endangered cutthroat trout.
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California’s Sierra National Forest is at the center of a conservation fight, with environmentalists pushing to turn it into a 2.5-million-acre national monument overseen by the National Park Service.
https://www.nationalgeographic.com/family/article/heres-how-kids-can-make-a-major-eco-impact-at-school
2022-01-24T18:25:59.951000+00:00
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Schools in Montgomery County, Maryland, have done away with polystyrene lunch trays in favor of ones made from recycled cardboard.
https://www.nationalgeographic.com/animals/article/camels-disappearing-in-india-threatens-a-centuries-old-nomadic-culture
2022-01-26T17:09:59.659000+00:00
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India's camels are descendants of wild dromedary, or Arabian, camels.
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Camels are silhouetted against the setting sun in the Thar Desert, a region on the border of India and Pakistan.
https://www.nationalgeographic.com/photo-of-the-day/media-spotlight/bolivia-chipaya-prayer-death
2021-08-09T12:49:37.943000+00:00
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Graveside Prayers
https://www.nationalgeographic.com/environment/article/deadly-heat-waves-floods-drought-will-get-worse-if-warming-continues
2021-08-10T16:23:54.912000+00:00
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Men gather sheep to save them from a wildfire in Turkey, a country seeing some of its worst wildfires in decades amid a lingering heat wave. A new report by the Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change offers a clear look at how climate change will make extreme weather more deadly and common.
https://www.nationalgeographic.com/environment/article/some-irreversible-changes-to-the-climate-can-still-be-headed-off-report-says
2021-08-10T16:24:37.062000+00:00
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Steam and dirty smoke rises from a coal-fired power plant in Poland. Fossil fuel emissions need to be cut immediately and drastically in order to prevent further catastrophic climate change, says a massive new climate change report from the Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change.
https://www.nationalgeographic.com/science/article/why-is-delta-more-infectious-and-deadly-new-research-holds-answers
2021-08-06T19:50:18.946000+00:00
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Nurses attend to 20 COVID-19 patients inside Little Company of Mary Medical Center Friday, July 30, 2021 in Torrance, CA. The majority of these patients are unvaccinated.
https://www.nationalgeographic.com/photo-of-the-day/media-spotlight/garden-cat-shakespeare-herbs
2021-08-06T19:04:57.442000+00:00
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English Garden
https://www.nationalgeographic.com/photo-of-the-day/media-spotlight/lighthouse-maine-pemaquid-ocean
2021-08-06T19:04:15.197000+00:00
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Lighthouse Lore
https://www.nationalgeographic.com/adventure/article/the-middle-east-may-be-the-next-great-hiking-destination
2022-01-28T17:35:01.721000+00:00
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The sun sets on the Red Sea Mountains outside Hurghada. After a day on the trail, hikers and Bedouin guides often share stories around the campfire.
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Hikers along the Jordan Trail can walk right into the famed city of Petra, as travelers have done for thousands of years.
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The Treasury is one of the ancient rock-cut buildings in Petra, accessible from the Jordan Trail.
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Near the town of Hurghada, Egypt, the Red Sea Mountain Trail loops through desert peaks and valleys. It’s just one of many long-distance trails in the Middle East.
https://www.nationalgeographic.com/science/article/how-will-the-pandemic-end-the-science-of-past-outbreaks-offers-clues
2021-08-06T18:15:17.598000+00:00
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A healthcare worker passes out self-swab COVID-19 tests at a drive-thru testing site in Houston, Texas.
https://www.nationalgeographic.com/history/article/these-indigenous-children-died-far-away-more-than-a-century-ago-heres-how-they-finally-got-home
2022-04-07T20:39:08.674000+00:00
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Before they were buried in Lakota lands, the remains of nine Indigenous youth had to be disinterred from graves at the site of the former Carlisle Indian Industrial School in Pennsylvania, now an active military installation and home of the U.S. Army War College. The U.S. Army held a private transfer ceremony at the Carlisle Barracks Post Cemetery. On display were traditional items and photographs in honor of the deceased.
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The drive to get the remains home took two-and-a-half days. As the caravan made its way through Indigenous communities, many came out to pay respects. At the Yankton Sioux Reservation in South Dakota Chris Eagle Bear, 23, leads other youth to a ceremony.
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A U.S. Army official hands an eagle feather to Chris Eagle Bear after the remains of nine Lakota children were disinterred from graves at a former Indian boarding school in Carlisle, PA and returned the the Rosebud Sioux Tribe for the long journey back home.
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The handover on the grounds of the Carlisle Barracks Post Cemetery on July 14 was a somber ceremony attended by relatives of the fallen youth, Rosebud Sioux Tribal leaders, and other dignitaries including Deb Haaland, the first Native American to serve as Secretary of the Interior. “The experience of our people and boarding schools’ legacy has been stifled for generations,” said Haaland, whose great-grandfather attended Carlisle, and whose grandparents were also survivors of Indian boarding schools.
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Asia Black Bull Chu and several other members of the Sicangu Youth Council carry traditional gifts and a box with a folded U.S. flag provided by the Army to the wake for nine Lakota children held at Sinte Gleska University in South Dakota. One of the skeletal remains belonged to Asia’s relative, Rose Long Face. “You are home,” Asia whispered as the procession inched closer to the Rosebud Sioux Reservation. “We are home again.”
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Archival photo of Native American children at Carlisle Indian Industrial School in Pennsylvania. The school, and others that followed, were pioneered by Civil War veteran Lt. Col Richard Henry Pratt with the explicit goal of forced assimilation. Over 39 years approximately 10,000 Indigenous youth were taken to Carlisle. Hundreds didn’t make it out alive.
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Some who greeted the caravan carrying the remains of nine Lakota youth rode horses alongside the procession yelling out Lakota victory cries, fists high in the air, a symbol of resistance and power to the people.
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En route to the Sinte Gleska University where a wake would be held on July 16, hundreds lined the highway to honor the dead. Many dressed in orange—the color that has become synonymous within Indigenous communities with the terrible act of children hauled away to boarding schools.
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The caravan carrying the remains of nine Lakota youth who died at an Indian boarding school in Pennsylvania made a stop in Sioux City, IA, for an event attended by hundreds of people who came to pray and pay their respects to the children.
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A U.S. flag flutters in the wind, as seen through the window of one of the vehicles that took part in a caravan carrying the remains of the nine Indigenous children disinterred from graves at a former boarding school in Carlisle, PA for reburial at the Rosebud Sioux Reservation in South Dakota.
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On the final stretch through Sioux City, Iowa, the caravan stopped at a landing on the Whetstone River. This is where the nine children were last seen by family members before they boarded a steamboat to Pennsylvania in 1879. The pine boxes were carried into a teepee for a spiritual ceremony, then loaded back into the trailer for the final journey home, about two hours away. “Every single one of my peers or people on our reservation is impacted with boarding schools, because either our grandparents or great-grandparents or ancestors have endured it, and they have lived through the abuse,” says Asia Black Bull Chu, who traveled with the caravan.
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Community members gather at Sinte Gleska University on the Rosebud Sioux Reservation in South Dakota for a ceremony and meal preceding the funeral.
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As part of traditional ceremony, family members place the children’s remains — carefully wrapped in buffalo hides — back into wooden coffins to be transported for reburial.
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Asia Black Bull Chu, a member of the Sicangu Youth Council, gets ready to attend funeral services for nine Lakota youth who died at an Indian boarding school after being taken from the Rosebud Sioux Tribe in 1879.
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Just before sundown on July 17, the remains of six of the nine Lakota youth were taken to the Sicangu Akicita Owicahe Tribal Veterans Cemetery at the Rosebud Sioux Reservation in South Dakota. The six were laid to rest side by side as members of an all Native women service member color guard watched over the ceremony. The remains of the other three traveled home with family members to be buried in private locations.
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On the final leg of a drive to the Rosebud Sioux Reservation, families embrace as other community members pay respects to nine Lakota children who died at an Indian boarding school more than a century ago. The remains were returned for reburial on ancestral lands.
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Eric Lapointe tends to the gravesite of his direct relative Alvan One That Kills Horse, one of nine Lakota youth whose remains were returned to the Rosebud Sioux Tribe after a six-year effort led by Tribal youth. Six of the remains were reburied at the Sicangu Akicita Owicahe Tribal Veterans Cemetery. The remains of three children would be buried in private locations.
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Members of the Sicangu Youth Council meet for a picnic in Ghost Hawk Park the day after the funeral for nine Lakota children whose skeletal remains they helped get back to their community from a gravesite on the grounds of a former Indian boarding school in Carlisle, PA.
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The graves of six of the nine Lakota children who were repatriated from Carlisle, PA to the Rosebud Sioux Reservation in South Dakota and laid to rest side by side at the Sicangu Akicita Owicahe Tribal Veterans Cemetery.
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Community members pay their respects as they walk past the new grave sites of Lakota youth who died at an Indian boarding school in Carlisle, PA after their arrival between 1879 and 1896. The skeletal remains of nine children were returned to the Rosebud Sioux Tribe for reburial in ancestral lands following a six-year effort led by Tribal youth. Six were buried side by side on July 17. Three others were returned to family members for private burials.
https://www.nationalgeographic.com/animals/article/how-extreme-heat-can-affect-our-pets-and-how-to-help-them
2021-08-06T14:18:18.946000+00:00
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As heat waves become more common and more intense, pets are likely to require special attention.
https://www.nationalgeographic.com/environment/article/how-extreme-fire-weather-can-cool-the-planet
2021-08-06T14:02:31.539000+00:00
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Bushfire smoke hovers over Canberra, Australia on January 23, 2020. Australia's 2020 fires caused a temporary global cooling effect.
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The setting sun shines through wildfire smoke during the Beckwourth Complex Fire in California on Monday, July 12, 2021. Smoke from fires like this one can cause both local and global weather effects, including cooling.
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2021-08-06T13:17:57.877000+00:00
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Remembering Hiroshima
https://www.nationalgeographic.com/history/article/worlds-oldest-coin-factory-discovered-in-china
2022-01-26T17:10:03.117000+00:00
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Archaeologists have been excavating the Guanzhuang site since 2011, uncovering workshops and hundreds of pits used for foundry waste. Workers began minting spade coins here sometime between 640 B.C. and 550 B.C.
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To mint a spade coin, craftsmen made two outer molds and a core out of clay, then carved the cavity and the “sprue”—a channel for pouring the molten metal (diagram A). The molds were then bound together with cord and core pins were inserted to create a thin void (diagram B). Molten bronze would then be poured through the sprue until the level reached the boundary line between the core head and the body (diagram C). After the bronze cooled, the outer molds would be broken to remove the finished spade coin.
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Spade-shaped coins, unearthed at the site of an ancient bronze foundry in China’s Henan Province, are the oldest known Chinese metal currency and possibly the first in the world.
https://www.nationalgeographic.com/history/history-magazine/article/who-were-the-aztec
2021-08-05T20:29:21.572000+00:00
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A feathered serpent bares its teeth at the site of the Great Temple of Tenochtitlan, in Mexico City. The massive temple complex was dedicated to Tlaloc, god of rain, and to Huitzilopochtli, god of war.
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Located in Mexico City, the temple of Tlatelolco belonged to a city separate from Tenochtitlan. When the Spanish gained control of the region, they dismantled the temple and used its stones to build the Church of Santiago Tlatelolco.
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An eagle lands on a prickly pear, indicating where the Mexica should found their city.
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The Codex Mendoza, preserved today in the Bodleian Library in Oxford, England, was commissioned by Antonio de Mendoza, first viceroy of New Spain, after the conquest. Mendoza ordered the creation of the codex to inform Charles V, King of Spain and Holy Roman Emperor, about the people living there. The codex is the work of an Aztec tlacuilo, or scribe, and uses pictograms. To make it comprehensible to Charles V, a Spanish priest familiar with Nahuatl wrote an explanation in Spanish. The first part of the codex is a list of the Tenochtitlan tlatoanis, or rulers, with the cities that they had conquered. The two pages pictured here correspond to the sixth tlatoani, Axayacatl (r. 1469-1481), and include representations of the 37 cities he captured.
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The Codex Mendoza contains a section that details the tributes received by Moctezuma II, who ruled Tenochtitlan between 1502 and 1520. From the 400 cities under his control, he received a plethora of gifts. In the codex, pictograms correspond to city names and the images next to them show their tributes to Moctezuma. Above each object is a translation in Spanish.
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The Triple Alliance (popularly known as the Aztec) conquered lands so as to be able to control trade routes and raw materials. Scholars believe religion also played a large role in expansion since the Aztec required human sacrifices to maintain the cosmic order.
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The circular Temple of Ehécatl, dedicated to the god of the wind, stands in Calixtlahuaca to the west of Mexico City. Built by the Matlatzinca people, the city was conquered by the Triple Alliance in 1478.
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An imposing disk of basalt, three feet high and more than eight feet wide, is known as the Stone of Tizoc—an Aztec monument to one of its leaders. A priest saved the stone from destruction after it was unearthed in Mexico City in the late 1700s. Scholars found that it was carved during the short reign of Tizoc, the seventh Aztec tlatoani (1481-86). On the top, arrows point to the cardinal directions of the compass around a representation of the sun. Today the altar can be seen in the National Museum of Anthropology in Mexico City.
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As well as commemorating Tizoc’s exploits, the stone may also have functioned as a temalácatl, a platform on which gladiatorial victims fought to the death. An image of gladiatorial sacrifice in the Codex Florentine shows a temalácatl similar to the Stone of Tizoc. A channel carved into these kinds of altars may have collected the victims’ blood, which then flowed into a carving of the mouth of the god Tlaltecuhtili.
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Scenes on the side show Tizoc dressed as the war god Huitzilopochtli in a headdress of hummingbird feathers and pulling an enemy’s hair (right). Each enemy represents one of the 15 cities conquered in his reign.
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The Mexica priest Cuauhtlequetzqui points out the place where his people should found their city in around 1325. The prickly pear evokes the story that the name Tenochtitlan means “place among the prickly pears.” Mexican artist José María Jara painted the scene in 1889. National Museum of Art, Mexico City.
https://www.nationalgeographic.com/animals/article/heres-why-poisonous-animals-dont-poison-themselves
2021-08-05T02:35:36.553000+00:00
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Blue poison dart frogs are native to the Sipalwini region of Suriname.
These Tiny Frogs Are Some of the Most Toxic Animals in the World
Scientists believe poison dart frogs assimilate plant poisons which are carried by their prey. Poison dart frogs raised in captivity and isolated from insects in their native habitat never develop poison.See more of Costa Rica's charismatic wildlife in Untamed from Nat Geo Wild. Follow filmmaker Filipe DeAndrade and his two best friends as they travel throughout Costa Rica in search of the most diverse, iconic and unexpected animal species the country has to offer.
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2021-08-05T13:53:14.490000+00:00
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Drying Dresses
https://www.nationalgeographic.com/travel/article/here-is-how-world-heritage-status-helps-destinations-around-the-world
2021-08-05T13:44:12.904000+00:00
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This Russian Orthodox chapel and pavilion is part of another selection, the Darmstadt Artists’ Colony on Mathildenhöhe, in Germany.
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Another addition to this year’s list, the Kurdish village of Hawraman/Uramanat, in Iran.
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UNESCO also added the Cordouan lighthouse, France’s oldest active lighthouse, built during the reigns of Henry III and Henry IV.
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The historical maritime trading city of Quanzhou, China, is among the sites added to UNESCO’s World Heritage list.
UNESCO World Heritage, Explained
Best of the best: That's the lofty standard for making the World Heritage List. Nations lobby hard to get their glorious buildings, wilderness, and historic ruins on the list, a stamp of approval that brings prestige, tourist income, public awareness, and, most important, a commitment to save the irreplaceable.Travel editor, Gulnaz Khan explains what UNESCO World Heritage is and how sites are chosen to make the list. Lean more here.
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https://www.nationalgeographic.com/environment/article/this-new-technology-could-help-cool-people-down-without-electricity
2021-08-05T15:07:51.331000+00:00
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Tenants cool off in their apartment complex pool in Phoenix, June 17, 2021. Phoenix is facing a double heat and housing crisis that is falling hardest on people who have to suffer the sun.
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An installation of SkyCool panels.
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A radiative film developed by 3M is being tested on Tempe bus shelters.
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At Columbia University, a panel coated with a novel polymer film radiates heat through the atmosphere to outer space, making it dramatically cooler than its surroundings. Panels like this one could reduce the need for air conditioning.
https://www.nationalgeographic.com/magazine/article/why-myths-about-superiority-endure-in-the-face-of-science
2022-06-20T15:28:55.153000+00:00
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https://www.nationalgeographic.com/family/article/helping-kids-deal-with-back-to-school-anxiety
2022-01-20T22:09:35.172000+00:00
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https://www.nationalgeographic.com/history/article/viking-amulet-factory-discovery-forces-rethink-enigmatic-artifacts
2022-01-26T17:09:59.380000+00:00
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Figurine motifs from Ribe, Denmark reveal a variety of designs were manufactured at the site.
https://www.nationalgeographic.com/culture/article/deported-migrants-struggle-to-start-over-in-a-place-that-doesnt-feel-like-home
2021-08-05T15:02:51.839000+00:00
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Mayra Machado, 36, was first deported to El Salvador in January 2017 following a routine traffic stop that alerted immigration authorities to the fact that she was undocumented and that she had a previous conviction for writing false checks at age 18. Desperate to reunite with her three children in the U.S., she migrated again and was deported a second time in January 2020 after spending two years in an immigrant detention facility in Louisiana. She hasn’t seen her children in person since.
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Mayra Machado, who was deported to El Salvador twice, has decided parenting from afar is a better fit for her family. Parenting three children living with their grandmother in Arkansas is done through texts and FaceTime. Communication is all I have, says Machado.
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Mayra Machado, who had lived in the U.S. since she was five years old, was deported to El Salvador twice, most recently in January 2020. She now spends her days in San Salvador fielding calls from parents in the United States desperate to have their children join them. Here, she visits a family of recent deportees in the municipality of La Reina, Chalatenango north of San Salvador.
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Mayra Machado (far right) watches her friend play basketball at the Centenario Park in San Salvador, El Salvador. Since being deported, she has been able to find a sense of community among other deportees and the Central American diaspora that passes through El Salvador.
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Recently deported men arrive at the Migrant Reception Center in San Salvador, El Salvador. That day in June more 70 men arrived on the same plane after being deported from several locations across the United States.
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Mario Blanco Ventura, 40, walks to the entrance of the Migrant Reception Center to get picked up by a family member in San Salvador, El Salvador. Ventura first migrated to the United States when he was 16 and got deported for the second time this year.
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Mario Blanco Ventura reunites with a family member at the Migrant Reception Center in San Salvador, El Salvador.
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Early morning in San Salvador, El Salvador. More than 100,000 Salvadorans have been deported from the United States since 2015, according to the most recent data provided by Salvadoran authorities.
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Alex Morales' martial arts uniform that he wore during his childhood in Arkansas hangs outside his home in La Libertad, El Salvador. Morales, who was deported in 2019, says he got into martial arts as a young boy while living in the United States because he felt responsible for protecting his immigrant family.
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Alex Morales, 29, outside his home in La Libertad, El Salvador. He emigrated to the U.S. at age 5 with his mom and stepdad, living first in Los Angeles, then Arkansas. After nearly two years in El Salvador following deportation, he’s starting to see a path forward. He and his Salvadoran girlfriend welcomed their first child, Rosalyn, last year, and he now runs his own Airbnb.
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Alex Morales spends time with his friend, Rachel Rose, after her soccer game at the Santa Cecilia school in San Salvador, El Salvador. The two met through mutual friends in the beach town of La Libertad.
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Alex Morales buys from a merchant outside the Santa Cecilia school in San Salvador, El Salvador. When his schedule allows for it, Morales likes taking his family on day trips to the capital for a break from their daily routine.
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Alex Morales watches the 2021 ISA World Surfing Games with friends in La Libertad, El Salvador. He has created a new life for himself following deportation in 2019.
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A young woman passes by the main square in Intipucá, a sleepy beachside town in El Salvador that claims to be ground zero for Salvadoran migration.
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Walter Blanco, 50, migrated to Maryland at age 13 and was deported to El Salvador in 2001 after a conviction stripped him of his green card. In El Salvador, he went back to school, earned a law degree and now owns a private family law and legal defense practice. “The U.S. is not for everyone,” he says. “It’s for people who make sacrifices. There’s no way to make it there without sacrifices.”
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A family photo of Walter Blanco and his siblings in their home in Maryland. Blanco, who now lives in the beachside town of Intipucá, says he still feels a strong connection to the U.S.
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Elena Mejía, 91, Walter Blanco’s mother, sits by the sewing machine she used to work with before migrating to the United States. She returned to El Salvador in 2013 to be with her son after she was diagnosed with Alzheimer’s.
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Walter Blanco and his mother Elena Mejía hold hands inside their home in Intipucá, El Salvador. Blanco says his wish is to see his mother live another nine years to reach 100. He lived in the United States for nearly 17 years before being deported in 2001.
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Walter Blanco and his mother Elena Mejía, who holds a family portrait of her four sons. We must not wait until people die to demonstrate our love, she says. We must do it while we are still on this earth.
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Alex Morales, who spent his teenage years in Arkansas, was deported to El Salvador nearly two years ago. Here, the 29-year-old, and his daughter, Rose, watch a soccer game in San Salvador, El Salvador's capital. Growing up with immigrant parents who worked several shifts to sustain his family, Morales shares that what keeps him up at night is making sure his daughter has the same opportunities he had when he lived in the United States.
https://www.nationalgeographic.com/travel/article/these-national-park-facts-will-shock-you
2022-01-26T17:10:12.556000+00:00
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Hidden under hills and hollows in Kentucky, Mammoth Cave National Park contains more than 400 miles of caves, including 10 miles of passages for guided tours.
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The General Sherman tree, located in Sequoia National Park, is the world’s largest living tree.
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Arches National Park has the greatest concentration of natural formations in the United States. It’s just one of many exceptional sites administered by the National Park Service.
Five Must-See Attractions in Yellowstone
As the world's first national park, Yellowstone has astonished visitors for over a century. Have the rare chance to see grizzly bears, bison, and a thriving population of grey wolves in their natural habitat. Located primarily in the state of Wyoming, Yellowstone National Park sits atop an enormous, slumbering supervolcano and is home to half of the world's geysers. From a 300-foot-tall waterfall to giant hot springs, here are five must-see attractions in Yellowstone.
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2021-12-09T20:59:05.378000+00:00
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In 2005, Happy became the first elephant to pass the mirror test for animal intelligence when she recognized the reflection as her own. Researchers think this may indicate that elephants are self-aware.
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This 19th-century drawing depicts the 1457 trial of a pig, convicted of murder and sentenced to be hanged in Lavigny, Switzerland. Her piglets were spared.
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Happy has lived at the Bronx Zoo for more than 40 years. Zoo officials say critics “know nothing of our individual animal, her personality, preferences, or tendencies.”
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This undated drawing shows a sow, dressed in a jacket and pants, being hanged in a public square in 1386 after she was convicted in Falaise, France, of murdering a young child.
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Happy, an Asian elephant at the Bronx Zoo, is at the center of a legal battle over animal rights.
https://www.nationalgeographic.com/environment/article/the-deadliest-flower-in-the-insect-world-is-a-lifeline-to-farmersand-the-planet
2021-08-04T19:53:35.063000+00:00
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The harvesting of the pyrethrum is done once every two weeks, strictly by hand.
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Grace is proud of her work in pyrethrum farming. For local people, the return of the industry means employment prospects and social benefits.
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Joel Maina Kibett, head of the agriculture department at the County Government of Nakuru, is a committed supporter of the revival of pyrethrum farming in the county.
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Pyrethrum is dried in the sun. No part of the production process for the plant is mechanized.
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An employee of Kapi LTD, which produces mosquito coils, performs quality control.
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These spiral-shaped discs, known as mosquito coils, produce an incense-like smoke that repels mosquitoes, but doesn't harm humans.
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The production unit for mosquito coils. The coils are green because the color is preferred in the Western countries where the coils will be sold.
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Pyrethrum flowers are dried on wooden platforms.
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The packaging department for the purple coils that are destined for the market in Kenya.
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Periodically, the facility is cleaned of chemical residues and organic products are made. Pyrethrum is mixed with sawdust to ensure that the coil is flammable, but slow burning.
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The county of Nakuru is perfect for farming pyrethrum, both for the qualities of the soil there and because it flourishes at altitudes of over 6,500 feet (2,000 meters).
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This flower, the pyrethrum plant, contains a potent chemical that is made into an effective, and environmentally friendly, insecticide.
https://www.nationalgeographic.com/science/article/people-who-already-had-covid-19-should-still-get-vaccinated-scientists-urge
2021-08-04T13:53:12.742000+00:00
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Registered nurse Darryl Hana administers a dose of the Pfizer COVID-19 vaccine to Concepcion Witron at Providence Wilmington Wellness and Activity Center in California. For people who’ve already been sick, even a single dose of an mRNA vaccine like Pfizer’s can boost immunity to this deadly disease.
https://www.nationalgeographic.com/photo-of-the-day/media-spotlight/obama-midway-islands-snorkel
2021-08-04T13:21:05.342000+00:00
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Snorkeling With Obama
https://www.nationalgeographic.com/culture/article/germanys-secret-police-archive-shutters-reckoning-for-victims-continues
2021-08-03T18:12:42.683000+00:00
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Buildings holding the archives of the Stasi in Berlin, illuminated in 2014 to mark the 25th anniversary of the fall of the Berlin Wall.
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Records in the Stasi archives in Berlin. Nearly 70 miles of files are stored in the archives.
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Monitors once tracked the movements of inmates at the former Stasi prison Roter Ochse (Red Ox) in the German state of Saxony-Anhalt. The prison is now a museum.
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A uniform belonging to a member of the East German Ministry for State Security. The ministry was also known as the State Security Service (Staatssicherheitsdienst in German), and often simply referred to as the Stasi.
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2BWKYFD Surveillance camera footage shown at the DDR Museum in Berlin, Germany
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Surveillance camera footage shown at the DDR Museum in Berlin, Germany
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2BWKYCC Surveillance camera footage shown at the DDR Museum in Berlin, Germany
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2BWKYD5 Surveillance camera footage shown at the DDR Museum in Berlin, Germany
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Human sweat samples in glass jars on display in Berlin's Stasi Museum.
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A spy camera disguised as a birdbox is exhibited at the Stasi Museum.
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A reconstruction of a Stasi listening station at Berlin's DDR Museum.
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The national emblem of the German Democratic Republic on a belt that once belonged to a member of the Ministry for State Security. The East German ministry was also known as the State Security Service (Staatssicherheitsdienst), often just referred to as the Stasi.
https://www.nationalgeographic.com/culture/article/look-out-veteran-fire-spotter-shares-view-from-mountaintop-perch
2022-01-28T16:17:26.106000+00:00
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On July 21, a lightning strike sparked the Hay Creek Fire, seen here from the Huckleberry lookout tower in Glacier National Park.
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The pack train arrives at Reeves's Numa tower on July 1 with 20 gallons of water, food, and a load of books.
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Smoke and haze from the Hay Creek Fire cast a pall. The air smells like a dirty, wet ashtray, with heavy notes of charcoal added to the mix, Reeves writes.
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The Numa tower was built in 1934. Reeves calls it the ultimate tiny house, with lots of windows, a wrap-around deck, and killer views.
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Binoculars, maps, and a journal are essentials. And a radio. Every morning, Reeves and the other lookouts report weather conditions and any lightning to headquarters.
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Hikers are often surprised to stumble upon a lookout. There are questions about job, the living arrangements, the animals. Reeves's favorite first question: What books are you reading?
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A storm can be a front-row seat to exciting chaos. And if I don't think the color and light changes of the sunsets are worth watching, Reeves says, I should probably find another job.
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Karen Reeves has worked as a fire lookout in Montana on and off since the 1970s. From a tower at altitude, lookouts have a grand view of a huge swath of forest.
https://www.nationalgeographic.com/travel/article/in-the-wake-of-the-pandemic-theme-parks-and-airlines-rethink-lines
2021-08-03T13:28:45.264000+00:00
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On April 15, 2021, guests claim a virtual spot in line at Universal Studios Hollywood in Los Angeles, California. New technology, like this check-in kiosk, is helping airlines and theme parks promote social distancing and reduce crowding during the coronavirus pandemic.
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In August 2020, tourists wearing face masks queue up (with help from social-distancing floor dots) to enter the Louvre Museum in Paris.
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Visitors wait in line to enter the Cologne Cathedral in Germany with help from social-distancing stickers. The COVID-19 pandemic has forced tourist attractions and airports to rethink how people should queue up.
https://www.nationalgeographic.com/photo-of-the-day/media-spotlight/crimea-ukraine-watermelon-farm
2021-08-03T13:03:36.483000+00:00
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Watermelon Farmers
https://www.nationalgeographic.com/magazine/article/five-eco-friendly-ways-to-start-the-school-year
2022-06-20T15:31:38.661000+00:00
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https://www.nationalgeographic.com/animals/article/wild-us-deer-found-with-coronavirus-antibodies
2021-08-07T08:56:58.462000+00:00
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New research suggests white-tailed deer are encountering the coronavirus in the wild, a possible spillover from human infections.
https://www.nationalgeographic.com/travel/article/the-secret-life-of-sake-japans-national-obsession
2022-01-26T17:10:14.100000+00:00
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Workers at Hakkaisan Brewery, one of the largest breweries in Niigata, create the yeast starter (shubo) for sake making.
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An attendant pours sake into a cup for visitors at the Koami Shinto shrine during the doburoku (sake) festival in Tokyo on November 28, 2016.
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Mount Fuji, a two-hour drive from Tokyo, towers over the nearby towns in Yamanashi prefecture.
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Visitors tour the Fukumitsuya Sake Brewery, the oldest sake brewery in Kanazawa.
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A couple visits the kazaridaru (sake barrels), a decorative display giving honor to the gods at Meiji Shrine in Tokyo on January 16, 2021.
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Synonymous with Japanese culture, sake is often served at weddings, consumed merrily at festivals, and paired with kaiseki (traditional, multi-course meals).
https://www.nationalgeographic.com/family/article/heres-an-earth-friendly-guide-to-back-to-school-shopping
2022-01-24T18:26:47.141000+00:00
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All the cool kids are shopping in clearance racks or secondhand shops to keep clothing out of landfills.
https://www.nationalgeographic.com/photo-of-the-day/media-spotlight/fossil-dinosaur-paleontology-argentina
2021-08-02T13:20:01.213000+00:00
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Fossil Tracks
https://www.nationalgeographic.com/photo-of-the-day/media-spotlight/cave-ice-mighican-superior
2021-07-30T20:58:25.655000+00:00
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Ice Cave
https://www.nationalgeographic.com/photo-of-the-day/media-spotlight/rhino-kenya-meru-guard
2021-07-30T20:56:50.007000+00:00
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Standing Guard
https://www.nationalgeographic.com/science/article/struggling-to-assess-pandemic-risks-youre-not-alone
2021-07-30T16:58:47.562000+00:00
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Humans evolved to judge risks based on many psychological factors, and that's influencing people's varied responses to the COVID-19 pandemic.
How fear and anxiety drove human evolution
Experiencing fear and anxiety may not be pleasant, but both are important emotions that drive human evolution. Our brains react to threats, preparing our bodies for what might lay ahead, in a way we learned how to thousands of years ago. But what’s the science behind this inherent reaction and are there consequences?
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https://www.nationalgeographic.com/travel/article/heres-the-revolutionary-idea-behind-americas-urban-trails
2022-04-25T14:02:32.977000+00:00
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The Emerald Necklace, including the Back Bay Fens, links 16 neighborhoods and offers Bostonians a tree-lined respite from the bustle of the city.
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People relax in the Emerald Necklace’s Public Garden. The Necklace was designed by Frederick Law Olmsted, the innovative landscape architect behind New York’s Central Park.
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Two people take a morning walk on the eastside trail of the BeltLine, a greenway project that connects Atlanta neighborhoods via biking and hiking trails.
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Greenways, like Boston’s Emerald Necklace (pictured here), were first built in the late 1860s as a way to connect neighborhoods in busy urban centers. Fueled by climate change concerns, these nature-filled walking, running, and biking trails have become more popular, with new projects in many U.S. cities.
https://www.nationalgeographic.com/animals/article/florida-considering-opening-a-fishery-for-endangered-goliath-grouper
2021-07-30T17:02:39.565000+00:00
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Goliath groupers hover in the Warrior Reef, made of concrete from a demolished high school in Jupiter, Florida. Goliath grouper numbers have improved since the 1990 fishing ban, but many scientists say they’re still too low to reopen fishing.
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A goliath grouper swims through the Castor shipwreck, off Boynton Beach, Florida.
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A juvenile goliath grouper swims through mangroves. Degradation of mangroves, however, has prevented many young from surviving to adulthood.
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During spawning season, dozens of goliath groupers come together to form mating aggregations—a major draw for scuba diving tourists.
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Florida is considering allowing limited catch of Atlantic goliath groupers, fish that can grow up to eight feet long and weigh 800 pounds.
Photographer Swims With Huge Goliath Groupers
“They remind me of my family, like my Uncle Johnny from New Jersey.” That’s how David Doubilet describes the goliath groupers he photographed off the coast of Florida.Read more about goliath groupers online in National Geographic magazine.Read more about Doubilet's experience on the assignment.
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https://www.nationalgeographic.com/photo-of-the-day/media-spotlight/chimpanzee-congo-jane-goodall
2021-07-30T13:14:14.185000+00:00
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Furry Friends
https://www.nationalgeographic.com/culture/article/american-football-fever-grows-ukraine
2021-07-30T15:58:31.211000+00:00
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Members of the Vinnytsia Wolves huddle during the opening game of the 2021 season against the Lviv Lions as cheerleaders look on from the sidelines in Lviv, Ukraine.
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The Poltava Panthers practice on a field behind industrial buildings in Poltava, central Ukraine. A full set of protective gear can cost as much as $500 in a country where average yearly income hovers around $3,400, according to data from the World Bank.
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Poltava Panthers cornerback Ihor Meliukhnov and team communication manager Anna Yehorova take selfies in front of the Mariupol train station before a game with a local team. The self-funded teams often play in the part of country near their home town to avoid the costs of long-distance travel.
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Vinnytsia Wolves head coach of Dale Heffron briefs his team after an away game against the Kyiv Slavs. Heffron retired from Florida to Ukraine in part to coach football in the country.
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The Poltava Panthers celebrate the team's birthday in a gym in Poltava in February 2020, before the pandemic shut down group sports in the country.
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Members of the Poltava Panthers watch Super Bowl LIV, broadcast live from Miami, in February 2020.
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Poltava Panthers running back Tyhran Tovmasian takes a break on the field during a game against Dnipro United.
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Quarterback of the Vinnytsia Wolves women’s flag-football team Kateryna Teteruk (second from left) with her team during the first round of the 2021 ULAF Women's Flag Football Championship in Kamianets-Podilskyi, Ukraine.
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Players from the Vinnytsia Wolves and the Lviv Lions players greet each other after the opening game of the 2021 season. The Wolves won the game 7-6.
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Quarterback Seifadin Almazov practices with the Poltava Panthers, one of more than a dozen teams in the Ukrainian League of American Football.
https://www.nationalgeographic.com/history/article/a-year-after-beirut-explosion-nobody-cares-that-people-died-or-if-people-live-they-dont-care
2021-08-04T14:12:00.010000+00:00
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The Port of Beirut has resumed functioning although piles of wreckage remain a year after the blast. The hazardous ammonium nitrate was stored across a road from residential neighborhoods. Nobody has explained yet how it ignited or why it had been at the port since 2014.
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Debris from warehouses destroyed in the explosion litters a devastated landscape. The Lebanese hope, but don’t expect, that an investigation will identify the perpetrators and deliver justice. Many are calling for an independent international investigation.
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David Mellehe sits near a photo of his brother Ralph taped to what was Ralph’s locker at his firefighting brigade’s headquarters. Ralph died when he and his fellow firefighters responded to the explosion. “I can’t accept that I received my brother in pieces, and not all of him. His coffin was weighed down with bricks and bags of sand and bolted shut,” David says. “I can't stay silent about that.”
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Ralph Mellehe’s casket snakes through the streets in an hours-long procession in his Beirut neighborhood of Ain al-Remmane. Women tossed rice and flower petals, and men set off fireworks and gunshots, in an emotional outpouring of collective grief.
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The aristocratic Sursock family has lived continuously in Sursock Palace since it was built in Beirut in the 1870s. The ammonium nitrate explosion at the port on August, 4, 2020, caused extensive damage to its structural foundations as well as furniture and personal items. Roderick Cochrane Sursock, the owner, says that a year on he has still not finished cataloguing the damage.
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Blocking major roads and highways such as this one leading into the northern Lebanese city of Tripoli has become a common tactic employed by protesters to vent their anger over worsening living conditions and political inaction in the face of the country’s many accumulating crises.
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Hady Fowal, 12, takes a break from helping older boys and men maintain a roadblock with burning tires at a recent protest on the highway to Tripoli. “I should be in school,” he says, “but my parents can’t pay rent. We are hungry.”
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Mahmoud Jaloul, 30, sits in front of burning tires blocking a highway outside of Tripoli. “I am here because of the situation,” he says. “There is no electricity, no food. There is corruption. From the members of parliament to the local council members, they are all corrupt.”
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Lebanon’s main grain silo at the port absorbed much of the impact of the blast, shielding the western part of the city from greater damage. As a result, the silos are structurally unstable, moving at a rate of 2 millimeters per day. Italy’s Tower of Pisa, by comparison, leans about 5 millimeters a year. Experts have recommended demolishing the iconic silos.
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Portraits of George Maalouf, known to his family by his childhood nickname, “JouJou,” are displayed at his parents’ home in Ablah in the Bekaa Valley. George served in the military and was at the port on the day of the explosion. His grief-stricken parents Rita and Elias are building a memorial, a white stone chapel, near their front door in his honor.
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Rita and Elias Maalouf hold a portrait of their son, George. They blame the country’s ruling class for the senseless tragedy that killed their son. “May they all get sick, all of them, and suffer,” Elias says. “Those traitors in Parliament,” Rita says, “those deaf-blind mutes who don't want to see us or hear us, they have no conscience.”
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Hamze Eskandar, 25, was a soldier stationed at the port in Beirut, Lebanon, when tons of stored ammonium nitrate exploded on August 4, 2020, killing him and at least 215 others. His three sisters display his portrait and wear medallions around their necks bearing his image. “Hamze was my mother's greatest happiness, and Hamze took her away,” Hamze’s eldest sister Salam (center) says. “His death broke her. She died two months after him.”
https://www.nationalgeographic.com/science/article/biggest-us-earthquake-in-more-than-50-years-strikes-alaska-heres-what-we-can-learn
2022-01-26T17:10:00.187000+00:00
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A powerful magnitude 8.2 earthquake rattled a remote part of Alaska on Wednesday, spurring a tsunami warning that sent coastal residents heading for higher ground, as shown here in the city of Homer.
Earth 101
Earth is the only planet known to maintain life. Find out the origins of our home planet and some of the key ingredients that help make this blue speck in space a unique global ecosystem.
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https://www.nationalgeographic.com/animals/article/86000-wild-mustangs-that-roam-the-west-are-at-the-center-of-raging-controversy
2022-01-26T17:09:57.249000+00:00
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Wild mustangs roll and graze in the grasses of the Onaqui Herd Management Area in western Utah. BLM, which is tasked with managing the country’s nearly 86,000 free-roaming horses, determined that the herd had grown too large to sustainably live on the land.
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A BLM specialist darts mares in the Onaqui herd with birth control vaccines in 2017. Advocates and many scientists believe that fertility control is the ideal way to control horse populations, but administering it by dart gun can be complicated for some herds and nearly impossible for others.
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Horses roam the desert of the Onaqui Herd Management Area in 2017. Many ecologists say that worsening droughts in the West are making it increasingly difficult for horses—and the animals they share the landscape with—to find water and food.
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Free-roaming horses stand in the foothills of Utah’s Onaqui Mountains in 2017. In July, the Bureau of Land Management (BLM) rounded up 435 of the herd’s nearly 500 horses via helicopter, sending 350 of them into captivity.
https://www.nationalgeographic.com/science/article/prehistoric-wild-dog-found-at-iconic-human-fossil-site
2022-01-26T17:09:58.526000+00:00
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These teeth and jaw fragments, found at Georgia's 1.8-million-year-old Dmanisi site, belong to an extinct canid known as the Eurasian hunting dog. The fossil is the oldest of its kind yet found.
https://www.nationalgeographic.com/photo-of-the-day/media-spotlight/tiger-india-cub-park
2021-07-29T13:17:09.549000+00:00
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Tiger Mother
https://www.nationalgeographic.com/environment/article/restoring-protections-to-bears-ears-will-likely-spark-legal-fights
2021-07-28T21:28:55.269000+00:00
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Bears Ears National Monument, in Utah, is one of three monuments due to get their federal protections back after they were stripped during the last administration.
https://www.nationalgeographic.com/animals/article/cicada-killer-wasps-are-here
2021-07-28T21:15:01.853000+00:00
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Eastern cicada killer wasps are large and colorful but present no danger to humans.
Would You Risk Venomous Insect Stings for Your Job?
September 21, 2016 - This researcher claims to have been stung by insects at least a thousand times during his research! For entomologist Justin Schmidt, getting stung by venomous insects is an occupational hazard. Schmidt collects and studies a variety of stinging insects such as harvest ants and Pacific cicada killers to discover the potential medical benefits of their venom. He believes the venom could be used to treat chronic pain and arthritis in humans without the negative side effects of current painkillers. Schmidt says that though getting stung is unpleasant, it's all worth it to get up close and personal with these fascinating bugs.The Worst Places to be Stung? Ask This Guy.WATCH: Today I Learned - A Venomous Animal May Save Your Life.
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https://www.nationalgeographic.com/culture/article/karapiru-survived-an-amazonian-odyssey-but-became-pandemic-victim
2021-07-28T18:54:52.238000+00:00
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Awá families start out on a hunting trip from Posto Awá, established by the Indigenous affairs agency FUNAI to settle nomadic Awá hunter-gatherers after agents made contact with them during the 1970s and 80s. Today perhaps a hundred uncontacted Awá nomads still live in the forest, as the grip of the outside world tightens around them.
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Seen from the air, Posto Awá is one of four settlements founded by FUNAI within three separate Indigenous reserves to provide food, protection, and medical care to Awá communities. Since the 1970s, the Awá have suffered violence and disease at the hands of outsiders entering their ancestral homelands.
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Karapiru, a member of Brazil’s Awá tribe, poses in his home in Tiracambu in 2017. He survived an ambush in the late 1970s that set him on a 10-year trek in the eastern Amazon. He died of respiratory illness from COVID-19 on July 16.
https://www.nationalgeographic.com/travel/article/you-can-walk-across-san-francisco-in-a-day-heres-how
2022-01-26T17:09:53.396000+00:00
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A young person climbs a flowering tree in Golden Gate Park, one of the parks accessible via the Crosstown Trail.
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The trail winds through natural and urban spaces, highlighting sights like this house decorated with a topiary.
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A view of the city from the Lobos Valley Trail portion of the Crosstown Trail.
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Besides nature, the trail offers scenes of everyday life, such as this one of a basketball game in John McLaren Park.
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The Crosstown Trail passes through Golden Gate Heights.
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A couple gazes out at the city from an overlook in John McLaren Park.
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Children play in the woods of Glen Canyon Park, one of many parks connected to the trail.
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People explore Lands End Lookout at the northwestern end of the trail as the sun sets.
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A field of grass frames a view of the city from John McLaren Park.
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A dock juts out into the bay at Candlestick Point State Recreation Area, located at the southeastern end of the Crosstown Trail.
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Trekkers take the Moraga Stairs, located on Moraga Street, between 15th and 16th Avenues. The 163-step stairway is decorated with a mosaic depicting the sea and stars and was part of a community beautification project.
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A view of a residential garden seen from the Crosstown Trail.
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The Crosstown Trail is an urban hiking trail that cuts diagonally through San Francisco, California. It offers a wide array of sights and experiences, including coastal views such as the one pictured here.
https://www.nationalgeographic.com/animals/article/major-chinchilla-supplier-heads-to-court-with-more-than-100-animal-welfare-violations
2021-07-28T15:23:30.885000+00:00
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Chinchillas, similar to the wild one pictured here in Brazil, are bred in captivity as laboratory animals, pets, and for fur. In the U.S., a supplier of the animals for medical research has accrued more than a hundred alleged animal welfare violations.
https://www.nationalgeographic.com/science/article/890-million-year-old-sponge-fossil-may-be-the-earliest-animal-known
2021-07-28T17:02:05.093000+00:00
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A set of curious fossils may be ancient sponges—relatives of the great bathing sponge shown here—which would make them the oldest fossilized animals ever found.
Fossils 101
Fossils are echoes of an ancient past. Find out about the two major categories of fossils, how fossilization occurs, and how fossils can help paint a picture of the planet's history.
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2021-07-28T12:52:01.487000+00:00
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Military Parade
https://www.nationalgeographic.com/science/article/why-the-cdc-reversed-course-on-masks-indoors-and-how-it-might-affect-you
2021-07-30T19:58:39.022000+00:00
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Los Angeles County, California, is once again requiring people to wear masks in indoor public spaces, regardless of their vaccination status. As the Delta variant of SARS-CoV-2 surges nationwide, U.S. public health officials are recommending mask use in public indoor spaces, in regions with substantial or high transmission of the virus.
https://www.nationalgeographic.com/environment/article/more-good-fire-could-help-california-control-future-catastrophes
2021-08-09T10:52:30.173000+00:00
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Using a drip torch, a forest manager lights a prescribed burn in the Modoc National Forest in the northeast corner of California. Experts suggest the state should burn about one million acres a year to help control its wildfire challenges, but currently it is only burning about 100,000.
https://www.nationalgeographic.com/animals/article/surprising-ways-sharks-keep-the-ocean-healthy
2022-03-14T15:46:27.296000+00:00
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Gray reef sharks, common in the Indo-Pacific region, feed on short-nosed unicornfish.
Where our fear of sharks came from
Seeing a shark can be pretty scary. It’s okay to admit that. They are some of the ocean's most powerful predators. And yes, sharks do occasionally bite humans that enter their habitat. However, the notion that sharks are the vengeful, human-eating beasts that we see in the movies couldn’t be farther from the truth. On the contrary, an estimated 100 million sharks are killed by humans each year, putting a number of species on the brink of extinction. While we often villainize them in our stories, sharks may actually have more reasons to fear us.
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https://www.nationalgeographic.com/science/article/untangling-mysteries-of-the-brain-with-the-remarkable-biology-of-squid
2021-07-27T13:32:44.575000+00:00
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Hundreds of longfin inshore squid gather off the coast of Cape Cod, MA, to spawn each spring.
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Pablo Miranda Fernandez, a neuroscientist at the National Institutes of Health, extracts giant nerve fibers from a squid at the Woods Hole Marine Biological Laboratory.
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Sibling squid hatchlings. one with normal pigmentation—black and reddish brown dots—and one lacking pigments due to editing of the TDO gene. Both hatchlings have darkly pigmented ink sacks.
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The longfin inshore squid has long been an important organism in neuroscience research thanks to its giant axon—a nerve fiber that carries signals through the body.
https://www.nationalgeographic.com/photo-of-the-day/media-spotlight/bedouin-petra-jordan-bread
2021-07-27T12:51:13.932000+00:00
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Bedouin Bread
https://www.nationalgeographic.com/adventure/article/how-sport-climbing-is-helping-to-revitalize-a-greek-island
2022-01-26T17:09:44.811000+00:00
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A fisherman dives for sea sponges off Kalymnos. They used to be a major source of income for the islanders, but local sponges are now scarce.
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The trade in sponges, many now imported, still flourishes in Kalymnos because of the locals’ skill in processing them for sale.
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With the decline of sponge harvesting, the island now draws travelers to its picturesque harbors and mountainous landscapes.
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Today Kalymnos has about 3,900 climbing routes for various skill levels, many with sea views.
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Previously known for harvesting high-quality sea sponges, the Greek island of Kalymnos is now one of the world’s top destinations for sport climbing, a new Olympic event.
https://www.nationalgeographic.com/history/article/indonesia-is-new-covid-epicenter-but-the-peak-has-yet-to-come
2021-07-27T15:50:09.844000+00:00
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Rows of fresh graves fill the burial ground at Rorotan Public Cemetery in Cilincing, North Jakarta. Originally designed to hold 7,200 bodies when it opened in March of this year, the city is planning to add nearly 25 acres to accommodate more remains as the country confronts a record high of COVID-19 deaths.
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Thousands of Jakartans gather to receive one of 10,000 coronavirus vaccines being offered during a mass vaccination program held at Pulo Gebang Main Bus Station in East Jakarta.
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Zahwa Falisha, 16, receives her first dose of the Sinovac COVID-19 vaccine during a mass vaccination event at Otista Sport Hall in Bidara Cina, East Jakarta. So far only roughly 15 percent of the country has received one dose of the shot.
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Fauzi, an informal worker, sells instant coffee near Hotel Indonesia Roundabout, a popular pedestrian area in Jakarta in December 2020. Most of his customers are also informal workers, who have been hit hard by the pandemic. Before COVID-19, he could earn a $25 per day. In December 2020, he struggled to make $10 a day.
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Yono, left, and Faizin pose on a rooftop farm on the fourth floor of the Baitussalam Grand Mosque in Taman Sari, West Jakarta in December 2020. A few locals started the project with a $3,500 donation shortly after Jakarta began enforcing a semi-lockdown. Fifteen workers tend the garden and all of the profits go to the farmers and the mosque’s welfare trust.
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A healthcare worker prepares a dose of the Sinovac COVID-19 vaccine during a mass vaccination program held at the Indonesian Red Cross emergency warehouse in Mampang, South Jakarta, Indonesia on July 16, 2021. The program lasted 10 days and aimed to vaccinate 10,000 people. The government hopes to administer two million doses per day starting in August.
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Indonesian Postal Service employees Mustofa, left, and Alfian pose while distributing cash from the federal government to qualifying residents of Kenari sub-district, Central Jakarta. Around 10 million people received roughly $21 USD per month while the policy was in effect from January to April 2021.
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Residents of Kampung Starling, Senen, Central Jakarta, wait for groceries distributed by the non-profit Foodbank of Indonesia in December 2021. Across the country, 31 percent of families experienced food shortages in the past year.
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Roozmalinie, left, holds her 3-year-old daughter Aquilla, center, as she is measured by Kris Wati, right, in her home in Pondok Melati, Bekasi, a suburban area east of Jakarta. Wati is a volunteer with Posyandu, a community-based health service focused on pregnant women and children. Even before the pandemic, more than seven million children in Indonesia were stunted due to malnourishment.
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Fishermen and workers at the port of Muara Angke, a densely populated area in North Jakarta, receive free meals from Wonder Food Indonesia in December 2020. The non-profit, established in March 2019, provides up to 3,500 meals each week to mainly low income communities. Due to recent COVID-19 restrictions, Wonder Food Indonesia stopped providing food for three weeks this month.
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Volunteers with Foodbank of Indonesia unload and store 20 tons bags of rice in a school classroom in Cipulir, South Jakarta, in December 2020. Today the non-profit is struggling to acquire food donations from cash-strapped businesses and protect its volunteers from the recent outbreak. Four team members died from COVID-19 in the past month alone.
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Workers lower a COVID-19 victim into the earth at Rorotan Public Cemetery on July 21, 2021. During the peak of the latest wave, workers filled the cemetery around the clock while tending to a never-ending line of ambulances and hearses—some with as many as four bodies inside.
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Desti Firdamayanti rests in her home in Kenari sub-district, Central Jakarta in January 2021. Her husband, who works as a newspaper deliveryman, saw his pay drop from $100 a month to only $30 during the pandemic. With their first child due in only a few weeks, the couple worried about their financial situation despite receiving the government’s social assistance benefits.
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Indonesia is now a major epicenter of the COVID-19 pandemic with more than 49,000 confirmed cases a day. Here, relatives pour rose water and offer flowers at a COVID-19 victim’s grave at Rorotan Public Cemetery in Cilincing, North Jakarta on July 21, 2021. According to the federal count, more than 84,000 people have died due to the virus.
https://www.nationalgeographic.com/magazine/article/meet-fernando-gomez-baptista-one-of-nat-geos-amazing-artists
2022-06-20T15:35:15.779000+00:00
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Fernando Gomez Baptista
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Ready for combat, a heavily armed Thraex gladiator holds up his shield and sica, a short sword with a curved blade, in the amphitheater at Pompeii.
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When he creates true-to-life images of sharks, saber-toothed cats, and other creatures that either are or were alive on Earth, National Geographic’s Fernando Gomez Baptista consults with experts to make his depictions as accurate and complete as possible. But when he’s drawing for fun, he likes to invent space aliens and monsters like those that populate science fiction and comic books—and then, he jokes, “at least I don’t have to worry about the experts.”
The History of the Bible, Animated: Behind the scenes
Take a behind the scenes look at how the animated short, The History of the Bible was made.Watch the original version hereAnd click here to read more about the history of the Bible
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2021-07-27T18:25:01.610000+00:00
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Customers wear masks to protect against COVID-19 as they wait for service inside an Apple store in Santa Monica, California. Severe breakthrough infections are very rare, according to CDC data, but experts still advise wearing masks indoors even if fully vaccinated to protect against the virus.
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2022-03-07T21:42:11.266000+00:00
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In March 2020, volunteers form a bucket brigade to transport oyster shells, picked up from restaurants, that will help build oyster beds at the Jack Dunster Marine Reserve in Long Beach, California.
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Oyster larvae, like these from Oregon’s Netarts Bay, are called diploids. Larvae from certain farmed species can escape from cages to seed the wild oyster population.
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In this 2018 photo, diners at The Shop raw bar, in Portland, Maine, slurp oysters during a shucking class.
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Oysters ready for counting lie along the banks of Maine’s Damariscotta River. The river supplies about 75 percent of the state’s oysters and is a stop along the Maine Oyster Trail.
Inmates Make Oyster Cages, Plant Hope for a Cleaner Bay
Oct. 9, 2014 - The state of Maryland is running an innovative oyster gardening program to help improve the water quality of the Chesapeake Bay and bring back the bay's natural filters. Using baby oysters (called spat) provided by the University of Maryland and cages built by inmates at a Maryland prison, volunteers tend to the oysters for a year. The full-grown oysters are then harvested and delivered to sanctuary reefs in the Chesapeake, where they will start the filtering process and provide habitat for other bay species.
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2022-01-26T17:09:39.920000+00:00
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For 35 years, King Mswati III (shown here in 2017), has ruled as absolute monarch of the Kingdom of Eswatini, formerly known as Swaziland.
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Women buy produce at a market in Manzini, Eswatini‘s commercial hub and largest urban center.
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Landlocked Eswatini borders Mozambique and South Africa, shown here at the Oshoek Border Post, on July 1, 2021.
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Swimmer Robyn Young, flag bearer for the Kingdom of Eswatini, leads her contingent in the athletes’ parade at the opening ceremony of the Olympic Games in Tokyo. Pro-democracy protesters in Eswatini have taken to the streets to call for political reform.
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2021-07-26T13:14:28.659000+00:00
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2022-07-14T20:46:31.937000+00:00
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2021-08-10T14:29:38.260000+00:00
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Vitalina García feeds chickens in the house she rents from her brother, who migrated to the United States. In 2011, García and her son were part of a series of landmark lawsuits against the government of Guatemala arguing that the state did not do enough to assure the right to food for its children. The families won the lawsuits, but little changed. When García’s family didn’t receive the land they were promised, her son, Leonel Amador, decided to migrate to the United States. Her other children, including Celvin Amador, pictured here, still live in the mountains of the dry corridor.
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Pedro Gutiérrez, right, sows corn with his family members on their land outside of Jocotán, a town in eastern Guatemala. In recent years, drought has put an end to the agricultural planting cycles in this part of the dry corridor. After waiting for rain this spring, Gutiérrez decided to plant his seeds, in the dry soil, and hope that showers would soak them soon. If it doesn’t rain within a week of planting, the seeds spoil.
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The children of Alba Luz Esquivel gather on their family’s rented land. Esquivel and her husband lost their entire harvest of corn and beans to dueling hurricanes, Eta and Iota, that hit the region last fall. During a recent medical check, their 11-month-old son, Celvin, was registered as underweight.
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Vitalina García’s son, Leonel Amador, migrated to the U.S. two years ago, and now sends the family money to buy corn. It took him 40 days to reach the Mexico-U.S. border with a coyote (human smuggler). “He was very scared to cross the desert,” García remembers. Amador plans to come back when he’s saved enough to buy land for his family.
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María Elisa García’s children watch her make tortillas for their lunch. Tortillas and beans are the two most important staples in the diets of families in eastern Guatemala. In recent years, the harvests have been so poor that many families reduce their meals to twice a day, sometimes eating as little as two tortillas per meal. When her husband can find work as a day laborer he makes around $7.
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Dry corn husks cover a piece of land in a hamlet called La Palmilla. After storms destroyed crops in this region, many families had to purchase seed to replant. Guatemala is among the countries most at risk for climate disasters in the world.
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Amelia Recinos Martínez lives in a community called Pitahaya, in the mountains of eastern Guatemala. Her granddaughter, Lilian, was recently identified as malnourished and was treated at the local health center with medicine to get rid of parasites.
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In 2011, Santos Florinda was part of a lawsuit against the Guatemalan government along with her son, Brian Rene Espino (left). Espino, who is now 13, was born with Russell-Silver syndrome, a rare genetic disorder that affects growth. Florinda won the case, but her son was never able to receive the expensive medical treatments he needs. She plans to keep fighting. “I’m not tired. I don't want to be someone’s joke,” she says. “I have to struggle for my kids.”
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Sebastiana Amador helps her granddaughter, Floria, prepare for her visit to the local nurse. Amador was part of the same series of lawsuits on behalf of her two daughters, both of whom were malnourished. One of her daughters later died. Now, she hopes the same fate doesn’t await Floria.
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Early one morning this spring, Rosalía García walked with her daughter Floria from their mountainside village of Tisipe to the community health center. García, who is 18, has been told by medical professionals that her daughter is suffering from malnutrition. But she has not been able to get a referral for a stay at the hospital’s recuperation center. She carried with her an overnight bag in case the nurse referred them there.
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Educational materials at the local health center where Floria is getting checked warn about the signs of malnutrition. Three years ago, the Ministry of Health changed its guidelines and eliminated the “at risk” category on the scale of malnutrition. Today, only moderate or severe cases are referred for treatment, leaving many children unattended.
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A nurse places Floria on a scale at the community health outpost. She clocks in at 11 pounds—just one ounce higher than she was at her last check-up, and four pounds below an ideal weight for her age.
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At the hospital in Camotán, Floria is weighed again. A doctor there said he would like to refer her for treatment for malnutrition, but couldn’t since the nurse at the local outpost only requested she be prescribed medication for diarrhea.
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In the hospital in the town of Jocotán, there are only two patients at the Nutritional Recovery Center (known by its Spanish acronym, CRN). One of them is Elman Eduardo Méndez, the son of Berta Vasquez and Walter Mendez. Elman is nine-months-old and weighs 13 pounds. He will stay at the center until he has reached a healthier weight.
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Berta Vásquez feeds her son, Elman, as her husband looks on. Vásquez is staying at the CRN with her son until he recovers from malnutrition. Last year, 75 Guatemalan children under five died of malnutrition, according to government data. But many more died because they were too weak to fight other illnesses.
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At home in a village called La Palmilla, Alba Luz Esquivel feeds her youngest child, Celvin. The family is in dire straits: after her husband sowed their crops, the rain never came. They fear they’ve lost another harvest. Last fall, their crops were swept away by back-to-back hurricanes.
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When a pair of hurricanes hit the region in fall 2020, Rubidia Díaz, shown here cooking with her children, and her the family fled to a small church to avoid landslides. The winds and rain washed away their entire harvest of corn and beans.
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Modesta Ramírez lives with her in laws in a hamlet called La Palmilla in Guatemala’s dry corridor. Like many families in the region, they also lost a whole harvest of corn and beans to the storms. The pandemic has hiked the price of basic necessities, like corn, up more than 50 percent. Not long after the storms, Ramírez’s son, Matías, spent 40 days in the hospital being treated for malnutrition.
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Armando Interiano and Sebastiana Amador sued the Guatemalan government and won. A decade later, their lives haven’t changed much. From this porch, they can see the new home their neighbor is building with the dollars he’s earned working in the U.S. To pay for the journey, which costs thousands of dollars, they’d need a loan or land to sell. “We don’t have anywhere to go,” Amador says.
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Dozens of NGOs and governmental agencies have been trying to tackle the hunger crisis in eastern Guatemala. Here, in La Palmilla, families wait to get donated banana roots from the municipal government. The aim is to prove another source of nutrients to add to their limited diet of corn and beans.
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The land in the dry corridor is steep and rocky, making it easy for the fertile top soil to erode and slide downhill. At the start of what is supposed to be the rainy season in eastern Guatemala, Pedro Gutiérrez and his family poke holes in the ground to plant corn seeds. They hope for rain, but so far there’s little sign it will come.
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A group of men in a village called Agua Fria, in eastern Guatemala, fertilize a plot of land they rented together. The region is used to having canículas, or dry spells, but in recent years they have stretched to be more than a month. In the meantime, all the seeds they’ve planted will have gone bad.
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This year, Miguel Interiano and Benigna Hernández had no fertilizer and decided not to plant corn. Now, they are struggling to buy corn for their family with the $19 Interiano earns each week working in sugar cane and coffee fields. Their two-year-old daughter, Glendy, shows signs of malnutrition.
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Rita García is flanked by her children and her mother-in-law. Guatemala has the sixth-highest rate of childhood malnutrition in the world, despite its growing economy. Some of the most desperate communities are in the far east, where climate change is disrupting generations of farming practices.
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Hunger is a familiar feeling for families like María Elisa García’s in a region of far eastern Guatemala known as the “dry corridor.” The 26-year-old has six children, two of whom have recently been treated for malnutrition. Many years of drought has destroyed the lives of thousands of farmers, and recently, two hurricanes and the economic tumult from the COVID-19 pandemic left García with no harvest to feed her children.
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2021-07-23T22:35:34.333000+00:00
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2021-07-23T22:34:54.196000+00:00
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2021-07-23T21:29:29.402000+00:00
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Visitors wearing protective masks watch a film inside a theater in Long Beach, California, on Friday, July 16, 2021. Los Angeles County told its residents they must wear masks indoors, even the vaccinated, following a surge in COVID-19 cases and the spread of the highly contagious Delta variant.
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2021-07-23T19:52:31.770000+00:00
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Wildfires produce plumes of smoke that can be a serious health hazard. In Markleeville, east of Sacramento, California, emergency crews are working around the clock to contain the Tamarack Fire, which so far has burned more than 21,000 acres.
Debunking 3 myths about air pollution
Everyone should know by now that air pollution is bad for the environment and for the people who breathe it. However, what many people don't always realize is how air pollution travels beyond the lungs throughout our bodies, why it can affect people differently depending on where they live, and what we as a society can do to fix the problem. Watch environmental journalist Beth Gardiner debunk three myths about air pollution.
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2021-07-23T12:51:00.067000+00:00
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Tree stumps scar the forest floor in the Congo Basin after 850 hectares of forests were felled to plant oil palm in the northeastern Democratic Republic of Congo in 2019. A new study has established an index that measures the pressure on any given tropical rainforest in the world.
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In Southeast Asia, agroforestry, commodity-driven agriculture, and reforestation have meant forest loss in many areas and forest growth in others.
https://www.nationalgeographic.com/travel/article/rock-climbing-is-more-popular-than-ever-is-that-a-good-thing
2021-07-23T19:24:43.050000+00:00
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A climber follows a chalk trail up a rock face in the Arico climbing area in Tenerife, one of the most popular islands in Spain’s Canary Islands archipelago.
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Alex Honnold chalks up for a climb in this June 18, 2019, photo. Chalk is popular with both professionals and amateur climbers for its dessicating and friction-inducing qualities.
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Climbing chalk is a key gripping tool for climbers, such as Jakob Schubert, pictured here. But its chemical makeup could be damaging plants that grow on rocks.
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2021-07-23T12:27:39.206000+00:00
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Vanishing Sea
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2021-07-22T18:31:14.656000+00:00
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A student receives a COVID-19 shot at a vaccination clinic on the University of Washington campus on May 18, 2021 in Seattle.
https://www.nationalgeographic.com/history/article/the-bombing-of-hamburg-foreshadowed-the-horrors-of-hiroshima
2021-08-12T17:50:20.112000+00:00
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Trails of light from incendiary bombs fill the skies over Hamburg during the Allies’ weeklong bombing campaign. The attack marked a shift from “precision bombing”—which had proven ineffective—to an all-out attack on both targets and the surrounding civilian areas.
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During the attack, British and American forces dropped incendiary bombs alongside regular explosives. Containing combustible agents like napalm, these bombs are designed not just to destroy a target but to start raging fires.
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British and American forces had prepared for the attack on Hamburg by researching how German houses were constructed—all to ensure their bombs would inflict as much damage as possible. Their bombs leveled much of the city.
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The Allied bombing raids killed tens of thousands of Hamburg residents and destroyed more than half of their homes. But they were ultimately ineffective at putting a quick end to World War II, which would continue for another two years.
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In July 1943, the Allied forces unleashed a fiery attack on Germany’s second-largest city. Named Operation Gomorrah after the Biblical city that God destroyed with fire and brimstone, the brutal bombing campaign was designed to destroy German morale and end the war.
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A woman running through the streets of Hamburg carrying her last possessions, during an Allied air raid, July 1943 (b/w photo)
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https://www.nationalgeographic.com/science/article/nasa-insight-spacecraft-reveals-first-peek-inside-mars-center
2021-07-23T15:10:29.785000+00:00
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Since early 2019, the seismometer of NASA's InSight lander has been collecting data crucial to understand Mars's internal structure. Thanks to InSight, scientists have determined the size of the planet's core, as well as other traits of its crust and mantle.
https://www.nationalgeographic.com/animals/article/cockatoos-learn-to-open-bins-by-copying-others
2021-07-22T19:53:36.527000+00:00
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Sulphur crested cockatoos are outgoing birds common in human-developed areas of eastern Australia.
https://www.nationalgeographic.com/history/article/reflections-on-life-in-haiti
2021-07-23T17:06:48.377000+00:00
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Myrto, 88, in the garden outside her bedroom in Port-au-Prince, in 2021.
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The prayer book of Cristina Baussan’s grandmother, Myrto, seen here in 2021 at her home in Port-au-Prince. Myrto keeps a portrait of Baussan’s grandfather, Jean, next to her own.
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Cristina Baussan’s grandmother, Myrto, (second from right), then 33, at a dinner party in Port-au-Prince.
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A memorial for President Jovenel Moïse near the entrance of his home in Port-au-Prince, Haiti, where he was shot to death on July 7, 2021.
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Odette Roy Fombrun, 104, on the balcony of her home in Port-au-Prince on July 15, 2021.
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The morning of President Jovenel Moïse's assassination on July 7, 2021.
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Rose-Laure and her friends spend the afternoon at Sofalam, a safe house for young girls living on the streets in Port-au-Prince, in 2017.
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Faïka Lionel (left) is one of the 300 students of the Foyer Maurice Sixto school, which offers educational courses in the morning and craft lessons in the afternoon. Faïka chose sewing when this photo was taken in 2018, hoping that one day she will design dresses for young girls in Port-au-Prince.
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Nestled in the mountains above Port-au-Prince, Christiana cares for the home Cristina Baussan’s grandmother lived in in her 50s in Kenscoff, Haiti.
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The church Cristina Baussan’s grandmother, Myrto, attends in Port-au-Prince, seen in 2021.
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Cristina Baussan’s grandmother's altar in 2021. Every day, Myrto takes a moment to light candles on the altar inside her room in honor of loved ones who have passed.
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Noël Stanley, 10, holds the notebook in which he wrote the date of President Jovelel Moïse's assassination on July 13. It reads: President Jovenel died on July 7, 2021.”
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As Haiti prepares to bury assassinated President Jovenel Moïse, older Haitians share memories of life before and during a long history of turmoil, as well as times when growing up on this island felt safe, liberating even. Here, a young man hikes up a corn field at sunset in Laval, Carrefour in 2017.
https://www.nationalgeographic.com/animals/article/extreme-heat-triggers-mass-die-offs-and-stress-for-wildlife-in-the-west
2021-07-23T20:36:01.057000+00:00
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Five young Swainson’s hawks rest at Blue Mountain Wildlife in early July. Unable to fly, lacking adult feathers to regulate their body temperatures, and sweltering in the extreme heat, they jumped out of their nests in search of reprieve. The rehabilitation center treated more than 50 Swainson’s and Cooper’s hawks and will release them once they’re recovered and able to fly.
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A fledgling Cooper’s hawk takes in its surroundings after being returned to the Oregon wilderness by the Portland Audubon in early July. Scorching temperatures forced baby hawks to abandon their nests en masse; the organization treated over a hundred of them.
https://www.nationalgeographic.com/travel/article/canada-reopening-border-what-american-travelers-need-to-know
2021-07-22T14:43:19.037000+00:00
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Tourists pose for selfies at Niagara Falls, Ontario, on July 16, 2021.
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Spotlights form a tepee in the sky over the Tk’emlups te Secwepemc Powwow Grounds near the former Kamloops Indian Residential School in Kamloops, British Columbia, on June 4, 2021. The lights honored the 215 children whose remains were discovered buried nearby.
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In this 2008 photo, Tlaook Cultural Adventures guide Dwayne Martin, of the Tla-o-qui-aht First Nation, shares his knowledge of the old growth forest with a tourist on Meares Island in Clayoquot Sound, British Columbia.
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Soon, U.S. citizens won’t see closed signs at the Canadian border. But vaccinated travelers will face COVID protocols throughout the country.
https://www.nationalgeographic.com/photo-of-the-day/media-spotlight/guatemala-mayan-archaeology-carving
2021-07-22T13:17:30.668000+00:00
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Mayan Warrior
https://www.nationalgeographic.com/family/planet-possible-challenges/article/challenge-8-explore-your-yard-with-a-beanpole-tent
2022-02-28T21:13:15.037000+00:00
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https://www.nationalgeographic.com/science/article/a-spritz-instead-of-a-jab-future-covid-19-vaccines-may-go-up-your-nose
2021-07-21T16:59:38.080000+00:00
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Researchers are exploring how well intranasal vaccines protect against SARS-CoV-2 infections.
https://www.nationalgeographic.com/travel/article/these-mystery-stories-solve-crimes-and-spark-travel
2021-07-21T16:04:36.561000+00:00
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The 1999 movie adaptation of Patricia Highsmith’s ”The Talented Mr. Ripley” was filmed in Italy’s Amalfi Coast, a region known for its breathtaking coastline and historic architecture.
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High Place, the menacing manor in Silvia Moreno-Garcia’s novel ”Mexican Gothic”, may be fictional, but travelers can experience similar architecture at Hotel de la Soledad (shown) in Morelia, Mexico.
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Evocative settings, like this English village, are among the reasons popular mysteries by authors such as Agatha Christie inspire trips.
https://www.nationalgeographic.com/photo-of-the-day/media-spotlight/miami-children-biscayne-boulevard
2021-07-21T12:28:46.679000+00:00
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Boulevard Boys
https://www.nationalgeographic.com/science/article/chunk-of-an-ancient-supercontinent-discovered-under-new-zealand
2021-07-21T11:01:06.755000+00:00
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The geologic wonderland of New Zealand, including Fiordland National Park shown here, is just a fraction of the mysterious eighth continent of Zealandia. A newfound chunk of ancient supercontinent concealed beneath New Zealand's eastern shores could help decipher Zealandia's complex past.
https://www.nationalgeographic.com/history/article/tollund-mans-last-meal
2021-07-21T04:45:48.476000+00:00
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The main ingredients (excluding fish) in Tollund Man’s last meal are displayed in their relative quantities: 1) barley 2) pale persicaria 3) flax 4) wild buckwheat 5) sand 6) false flax 7) lamb's quarters 8) corn spurry 9)
hemp-nettle and 10) field pansy.
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How Tollund Man’s gut content appeared under a microscope.
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Tollund Man was hanged with a leather noose and cast into a Danish bog some 2,400 years ago.
https://www.nationalgeographic.com/animals/article/beach-warning-signs-are-easily-ignored-by-swimmers-as-shark-bites-increase
2021-07-20T18:01:01.737000+00:00
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A shark-warning sign greets visitors to Newcomb Hollow Beach in Wellfleet, Massachusetts, part of Cape Cod.
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A sign warns people about the presence of bull sharks on the beach in Recife, Brazil.
Where our fear of sharks came from
Seeing a shark can be pretty scary. It’s okay to admit that. They are some of the ocean's most powerful predators. And yes, sharks do occasionally bite humans that enter their habitat. However, the notion that sharks are the vengeful, human-eating beasts that we see in the movies couldn’t be farther from the truth. On the contrary, an estimated 100 million sharks are killed by humans each year, putting a number of species on the brink of extinction. While we often villainize them in our stories, sharks may actually have more reasons to fear us.
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https://www.nationalgeographic.com/environment/article/this-summer-could-change-our-understanding-of-extreme-heat
2021-07-20T16:25:48.462000+00:00
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Adrian Ochoa wipes his face while working on a deck in Dallas, Texas, on Tuesday, June 15, 2021. June temperatures in Portland, Oregon, were hotter than record heat in Dallas.
https://www.nationalgeographic.com/science/article/jeff-bezos-flies-to-space-on-blue-origin-rocket
2021-07-20T14:34:39.640000+00:00
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Blue Origin’s New Shepard crew capsule parachutes back to Earth after a successful flight on July 20 in West Texas.
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The crew of Blue Origin's first human spaceflight, from left to right: Mark Bezos, Jeff Bezos, Oliver Daemen, and Wally Funk.
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Blue Origin launches its first spaceflight with humans aboard, including company founder Jeff Bezos.
https://www.nationalgeographic.com/photo-of-the-day/media-spotlight/moon-apollo-buzz-aldrin
2021-07-20T12:37:28.037000+00:00
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Moon Walk
https://www.nationalgeographic.com/animals/article/how-these-tiny-bunny-faced-animals-survive-the-winter
2021-07-19T20:31:46.608000+00:00
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As burrowers, plateau pikas are natural irrigators, aerating and moistening the soil.
Hamster-like Pika in Peril
September 4, 2009—Global warming is putting the pika, a hamster-like mammal, in peril. High in the Colorado mountains, a National Geographic researcher is trying to find out why its numbers are falling.For a related pika story, read Unbelievably Cute Mammal With Teddy Bear Face Rediscovered
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https://www.nationalgeographic.com/environment/article/climate-change-goals-and-oil-production-are-clashing-in-the-us
2021-07-19T14:49:17.873000+00:00
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Sunrise on a field of oil wells and storage tanks north of Bakersfield, California. Despite goals to switch the U.S. to renewable energy, drilling for fossil fuels continues.
https://www.nationalgeographic.com/science/article/photos-show-historic-moments-of-animals-and-humans-flying-to-space
2021-07-19T14:02:04.489000+00:00
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1959
The snug housing that secured Baker during her spaceflight sat within the nose cone of a Jupiter missile. After their May 1959 launch, Baker and her fellow passenger Able were recovered unharmed in the waters off Florida.
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1957
Dubbed Muttnik in the U.S. press, a Soviet dog named Laika rode Sputnik 2 into space on November 3, 1957, becoming the first living creature in orbit. During and after the flight, Soviet officials claimed that Laika had survived for several days. However, she likely died hours after launch from overheating.
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1960
Before he commanded Gemini 8 and Apollo 11, Neil Armstrong was a test pilot for the ultimate experimental aircraft: the X-15 rocket plane. A joint project of the U.S. military, NASA, and private industry, the X-15 pushed the boundaries of flight beyond six times the speed of sound. Eight X-15 pilots flew the craft more than 50 miles above Earth’s surface, the U.S. boundary of space. Armstrong, however, isn’t one of them.
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January 1961
Before launching human astronauts, NASA used chimpanzees and other primates to test its Mercury capsule. On January 31, 1961, a three-year-old chimpanzee named Ham lifted off from Florida’s Cape Canaveral, flying 400 miles downrange in an arc that took him 158 miles high and safely back to Earth. Ham’s only mid-flight injury: a bruised nose.
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May 1961
On May 5, 1961, U.S. astronaut Alan Shepard became the second human and first American to travel into space. After his historic flight aboard the Freedom 7 capsule, a helicopter from the U.S.S.Lake Champlain fished him Shepard and his capsule out of the western Atlantic Ocean and deposited them on the deck of the ship.
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1965
On March 18, 1965, Soviet cosmonaut Alexei Leonov performed the world's first spacewalk during the Voskhod 2 mission. During this same mission, Leonov also created the first work of art in space: a colored-pencil sketch of an orbital sunrise.
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1994
Backdropped against a massive wall of white clouds, astronaut Mark C. Lee floats freely as he tests emergency safety gear during a 1994 space shuttle flight. From 1981 to 2011, NASA’s space shuttle fleet flew 133 successful missions, including flights to repair the Hubble Space Telescope and build theInternational Space Station.
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2001
U.S. space tourist Dennis Tito celebrates after his landing near the town of Arkalyk, Kazakhstan, on May 6, 2001. Tito was the world’s first space tourist, having paid the Russian space agency Roscosmos to train with cosmonauts and make a nearly eight-day visit to the International Space Station.
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2004
Experimental aircraft designer Burt Rutan shows off SpaceShipOne, a prototype space plane, at his workshop in Mojave, California. SpaceShipOne was the first non-government vehicle piloted tomore than 100 kilometers above Earth’s surface, winning Rutan the Ansari X Prize on October 4, 2004.
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A chase plane follows SpaceShipOne after it completed its first flight beyond 100 kilometers on June 21, 2004. SpaceShipOne hitched a ride to 50,000 feet on the underbelly of a high-altitude aircraft called White Knight before releasing and using its own rocket engine to fly the rest of the way to space.
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January 2021
Blue Origin, the space company founded by Amazon’s Jeff Bezos, has worked for years to build reusable rockets, starting with a small suborbital vehicle called New Shepard for tourists and science experiments. To date, New Shepard has flown 15 uncrewed missions, including the pictured launch in January 2021. On July 20, 2021, New Shepard will take up its first human passengers—including Bezos.
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July 2021
Billionaire Richard Branson has spent 17 years trying to commercialize a bigger, upgraded version of SpaceShipOne. On July 11, 2021, his company Virgin Galactic took a major step toward that goal when the company’s V.S.S. Unity space plane flew two pilots and four crew members, including Branson, more than 50 miles above Earth’s surface.
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1959
The squirrel monkey Baker, often referred to as “Miss Baker,” clings to a model of the Jupiter missile that launched her and a rhesus monkey named Able into space on May 28, 1959. Baker lived until 1984.
https://www.nationalgeographic.com/travel/article/heres-where-earthbound-travelers-can-search-for-extraterrestrial-ufos
2022-01-26T17:09:43.070000+00:00
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People take pictures with alien statues at AlienFest in Roswell, New Mexico, on July 2, 2021. Despite the Pentagon’s assertion that dozens of unidentified flying object sightings could not be explained, a third of Americans told Gallup pollsters that they want to believe in aliens.
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Visitors participate in a “State of NASA” event at NASA’s Goddard Space Flight Center on Feb. 10, 2020. The event highlighted Goddard’s science, engineering, and exploration projects, including Artemis, NASA’s next mission to land humans on the Moon by 2024.
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The Pentagon says there’s no explanation for “unidentified aerial phenomenon” detected by pilots over the years. But scientists use tools such as the SETI Allen Telescope Array pictured here to research the possibility of life beyond Earth.
https://www.nationalgeographic.com/history/article/brutal-story-1936-popular-olympics-boycott-fascism-hitler
2021-07-19T14:31:26.844000+00:00
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The 1936 Olympics in Berlin were a propaganda coup for the Nazis. During the opening ceremonies, the Olympic torch was carried past rows of Hitler Youth.
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Republican militia fighters, who supported the leftist government, march at the beginning of the Spanish Civil War in 1936.
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Athletes of different races hold a banner for the Popular Olympics, which were to be held in Barcelona in 1936 as an anti-fascist protest against the official games in Nazi Germany.
History of the Olympics
Once every two years, the top athletes in the world vie for the coveted Olympic gold medal. Learn where this age-old competition began, what it has to do with Zeus, and how it inspired truce in times of war.
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2021-07-19T13:10:42.353000+00:00
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Eid al-Adha
https://www.nationalgeographic.com/family/article/picking-up-trash-boating-ploating
2022-02-24T19:06:48.445000+00:00
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Four-year-old Ravi Cook picks up litter from the Anacostia River in Washington, D.C., while dad Brian looks on. They were participating in a river cleanup with Anacostia Green Boats.
https://www.nationalgeographic.com/photo-of-the-day/media-spotlight/ice-cream-truck-california
2021-07-17T01:15:20.437000+00:00
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Ice Cream Truck
https://www.nationalgeographic.com/photo-of-the-day/media-spotlight/mesa-verde-cliff-dwellings
2021-07-17T01:14:13.966000+00:00
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Mesa Verde
https://www.nationalgeographic.com/travel/article/lummi-nation-brings-totem-pole-to-washington-dc-on-cross-country-tour
2022-01-26T17:09:45.424000+00:00
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Lead carver Jewell James kneels next to the totem pole that is on its way to Washington, D.C. The 12 symbols on the pole, including a child locked inside a cage, represent themes of Indigenous rights and land conservation.
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A totem pole created by Lummi Nations carvers is shown en route to Washington, D.C. The symbolic work, crafted from a cedar tree, was designed to draw attention to threats facing Indigenous communities and sacred sites.
https://www.nationalgeographic.com/history/article/how-the-rosetta-stone-unlocked-the-secrets-of-ancient-civilizations
2021-07-16T17:53:28.965000+00:00
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Scholars traced the origins of the Rosetta Stone to 196 B.C. in Egypt's Ptolemaic era. Its carvings contain a decree of loyalty to the pharaoh at the time, Ptolemy V Epiphanes.
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French linguist and archaeologist Jean-François Champollion began studying ancient languages as a teenager in the early 19th century. His fascination with ancient Egypt led to discoveries from deciphering the Rosetta Stone to deepening our understanding of mummification.
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The god Re, illustration from 'Pantheon egyptien: collection des personnages mythologiques de l'Ancienne Egypte' by Jean-Francois Champollion, published 1823-25 (colour litho) by Dubois, Leon Jean Joseph (fl.1823-25); Brooklyn Museum of Art, New York, USA.
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The goddess Isis, illustration from 'Pantheon egyptien: collection des personnages mythologiques de l'Ancienne Egypte' by Jean-Francois Champollion, published 1823-25 (colour litho) by Dubois, Leon Jean Joseph (fl.1823-25); Brooklyn Museum of Art, New York, USA.
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Although it's just a fragment of a larger rock slab, the letters and symbols chiseled into the face of the Rosetta Stone helped scholars crack the code of an ancient Egyptian writing system—and ultimately reveal the civilization's many mysteries.
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Detail of giant replica of the Rosetta Stone
Detail of a giant replica of the Rosetta Stone that allowed Jean-Francois Champollion to decipher the Egyptian hieroglyphs, Place des Ecritures, Figeac, Lot, Midi-Pyrenees, France.
Ancient Egypt 101
The Ancient Egyptian civilization, famous for its pyramids, pharaohs, mummies, and tombs, flourished for thousands of years. But what was its lasting impact? Learn how Ancient Egypt contributed to society with its many cultural developments, particularly in language and mathematics.
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https://www.nationalgeographic.com/animals/article/150710-dog-days-summer-sirius-star-astronomy-weather-language
2021-07-16T14:43:39.320000+00:00
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Ancient Greeks noticed that Sirus—which they dubbed the “dog star” as it is the brightest star in the constellation Canis Major—appears to rise alongside the sun in late July. They believed the combined power of the stars is what made this the hottest time of year.
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Children cool off from summer heat under a sidewalk spray outside a Connecticut firehouse.
Stars 101
Countless stars dot the night sky. Learn how these celestial objects form, how they are classified by brightness and temperature, and what happens when stars die.
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https://www.nationalgeographic.com/science/article/scientists-say-covid-19-booster-shots-arent-needed-yetheres-why
2021-07-15T20:28:48.444000+00:00
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Elvin Toro, 26, a former army medic, organizes his syringes before giving out the next dose to a local resident at Central Falls High School in Central Falls, Rhode Island.
https://www.nationalgeographic.com/animals/article/white-nose-syndrome-some-bats-becoming-immune-pandemic
2021-07-16T13:28:04.915000+00:00
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A little brown bat displaying characteristic signs of white-nose syndrome, caused by a pathogenic fungus that has devastated bats throughout much of North America.
https://www.nationalgeographic.com/photo-of-the-day/media-spotlight/underwater-photography-diver-camera
2021-07-16T13:21:01.330000+00:00
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Underwater Photography
https://www.nationalgeographic.com/history/article/how-gymnastics-became-a-deeply-beloved-olympic-sport
2021-07-15T20:40:04.681000+00:00
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Ancient Greek athletes typically practiced their gymnastics skills in the nude. These early gymnasts were training their bodies for warfare.
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Disheartened by his country's defeat at the hands of Napoleon, former Prussian soldier Friedrich Ludwig Jahn invented a form of gymnastics called Turnen that he believed would revive the strength of his countrymen.
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Jahn invented enduring exercises—including the vaulting horse and balance beam—which his followers performed at Turner festivals across the country. Here, women from the Hannoversche Musterturnschule in Hannover perform at on such festival in Cologne in 1928.
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Romanian Nadia Comăneci became the first female gymnast to be awarded a perfect 10 during the 1976 Olympic Games. Here, the 14-year-old athlete is shown leaping with one foot especially high in the air during her floor routine that year.
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Today, Simone Biles of the United States is the most decorated gymnast in history. Her impressive feats inspire awe and national pride—including her performance during the 2016 Summer Olympics in Rio de Janeiro, where she won four gold medals and one bronze.
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Gymnastics has been an essential Olympic event since the founding of the modern games. Athletes compete in events such as the vault, rings, and parallel bars. In this image, a Danish gymnast performs a perfect dismount from a pommel horse during the 1908 London Olympics.
History of the Olympics
Once every two years, the top athletes in the world vie for the coveted Olympic gold medal. Learn where this age-old competition began, what it has to do with Zeus, and how it inspired truce in times of war.
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https://www.nationalgeographic.com/animals/article/what-we-know-about-the-mystery-bird-death-crisis-on-the-east-coast
2021-07-16T13:54:22.997000+00:00
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A sick, newly blind juvenile blue jay is examined at Washington D.C. wildlife rehabilitation and rescue center, City Wildlife, on June 13. The bird, later euthanized, is among thousands afflicted by a mysterious illness along the East Coast.
https://www.nationalgeographic.com/travel/article/what-kids-can-learn-from-sharks
2021-07-19T04:00:38.469000+00:00
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A great white shark passes a diver in a submerged cage off the coast of South Africa. Shark tourism is a multi-million dollar industry and includes options to swim with and watch the creatures around the world.
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A young girl touches a shark sculpture at the Inatura Natural Spectacle, an interactive natural history museum in Dornbirn, Austria.
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Children eyeball jaws from several types of sharks on display at Monaco’s Musée Oceanographique.
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Tourists on a cage-dive trip off the coast of South Africa watch a great white shark surface.
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A scuba diver swims with an oceanic whitetip shark in the Bahamas. Shark tourism is increasingly popular around the world, and it provides an opportunity to engage children in conservation.
https://www.nationalgeographic.com/history/article/why-romes-gladiatorial-games-were-more-complex-than-just-a-blood-sport
2021-07-15T13:01:36.909000+00:00
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Nat Geo Explores Gladiators
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Why Rome's gladiatorial games were more complex than just a blood sport
Fictional depictions of gladiatorial games often focus on strength, endurance, and a thirst for violence, but new archaeological discoveries reveal a more complex side to the ancient Roman tradition.
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https://www.nationalgeographic.com/environment/article/-nearly-half-of-americans-say-climate-change-has-become-a-bigger-threat
2021-07-15T13:25:38.450000+00:00
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Firefighters monitor the scene at the Lava Fire in Weed, California on July 1. Soaring temperatures, windy, dry conditions, and lightning storms have fueled wildfires this summer across several parts of the western United States.
https://www.nationalgeographic.com/science/article/why-the-us-once-set-off-a-nuclear-bomb-in-space-called-starfish-prime
2021-07-15T21:12:49.413000+00:00
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When the Starfish Prime nuclear bomb exploded, charged particles from the blast collided with molecules in Earth’s atmosphere, creating an artificial aurora that could be seen as far away as New Zealand.
https://www.nationalgeographic.com/magazine/article/have-a-favorite-animal-theres-probably-a-day-in-its-honor
2022-06-20T15:39:19.909000+00:00
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Days dedicated to animals are sprinkled throughout the year. On the illustration of observances above, how many can you find? January 20: Penguin Awareness Day; Jan. 21: Squirrel Appreciation Day. February 1: National Serpent Day; Feb. 2: National Hedgehog Day. March 3: What if Cats and Dogs Had Opposable Thumbs Day; March 14: National Learn About Butterflies Day; March 20: World Sparrow Day. April 4: World Rat Day; April 8: Pygmy Hippo Day; April 9: Unicorn Day; April 12: World Hamster Day. May 2: World Tuna Day; May 8: World Donkey Day; May 16: National Sea Monkey Day; May 23: World Turtle Day; May 24: National Escargot Day. June 21: World Giraffe Day. Second Tuesday of July: Cow Appreciation Day. July 29: International Tiger Day. August 12: World Elephant Day; Aug. 19: International Orangutan Day. First Saturday in September: Vulture Awareness Day. September 8: National Iguana Awareness Day. September/October: Fat Bear Week. October 29: National Cat Day (U.S.). November 3: Jellyfish Day. December 13: National Day of the Horse.
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Holidays are designated by UN declarations, acts of Congress—even websites that list observances devised by companies, causes, groups, and individuals. The result is calendars with holiday pileups like June 1. That’s National Hazelnut Cake Day, so eat up ... and National Olive Day, so enjoy, but mind the pits! Should you choke on one, though, never fear: It’s also National Heimlich Maneuver Day.*
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https://www.nationalgeographic.com/history/article/50-million-dollar-fund-to-help-amplify-black-contributions-to-american-history
2021-07-15T13:43:14.290000+00:00
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Lonnie Bunch III, then head of the Smithsonian Institute National Museum of African American History and Culture, during a 2014 visit of the museum construction site in Washington, DC.
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This 1927 structure in Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania was designed by architect Louis Arnett Stuart Bellinger, and originally served as a Pythian Temple, a meeting place for the Knights of Pythias. It was converted to the New Granada Theater during the 1930s.
https://www.nationalgeographic.com/history/history-magazine/article/laocoon-and-his-sons-michelangelo
2021-07-30T20:39:27.300000+00:00
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Laocoon Engraving by Marco Dente
An engraving by Marco Dente, an artist from Ravenna (whose name, “Mrcus Ravenas,” can be seen on the plinth), shows how “Laocoön and His Sons” appeared before restoration. Engraved sometime around 1515, it reveals Dente’s fascination with Rome’s imperial past. With the exception of the base—added later—the grouping is presented as it looked when discovered on Esquiline Hill in 1506, against a background of ruins. Two of the figures lack their right arm—Laocoön and his son on the left—while the figure of the right-hand son still has its fingers missing.
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Pope Julius II
A keen collector of antiquities for the Vatican, Julius II bought the “Laocoön” in March 1506. Portrait of Pope Julius II, 1511-12, Raphael. The Uffizi Gallery, Florence
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Laocoon at the Louve
Napoleon took the “Laocoön” to Paris in 1798, where it was displayed in the Louvre with other objects from Italy, as shown in this circa 1805 painting by Hubert Robert.
Pavlovsk Museum, St. Petersburg
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Laocoön And His Sons
“Laocoön And His Sons” is on display at the Pius Clementine Museum at the Vatican. Discovered in 1506, it was a source of fascination for Michelangelo and Raphael. Scala, Florence
https://www.nationalgeographic.com/photo-of-the-day/media-spotlight/jane-goodall-chimps-tanzania
2021-07-15T12:36:34.080000+00:00
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Jane Goodall
https://www.nationalgeographic.com/family/planet-possible-challenges/article/challenge-7-explore-the-waterways-with-a-diy-sailboat
2022-02-28T21:04:03.422000+00:00
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https://www.nationalgeographic.com/environment/article/dusty-snow-is-making-the-western-drought-worse
2021-07-14T20:18:20.753000+00:00
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Aerial images taken from 14,000 feet show dirty snow across the Elk Mountains, part of the Colorado River system that supplies water to 40 million Americans.
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This hydroclimate station collects a variety of snow data that helps scientists determine how much water the dusty snow will produce, like barometric pressure and snow depth.
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The rare instruments—until recently there were just three in Colorado—measure incoming and reflected solar radiation.
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The dust deposits, carried onto the mountains with snowstorms, speed up the snowmelt and reduce the Colorado River’s flow.
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A layer of wildfire smoke from early-season wildfires lingers across the Elk Mountains.
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Derry takes samples of dusty layers from a snowpit.
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A skier crosses dirty snow at around 12,000 feet in Colorado’s Maroon Bells Snowmass Wilderness.
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At about 12,000 feet on Colorado's Loveland Pass, dirty snow patches melt into the river water. Jeff Derry, with the Center for Snow and Avalanche Studies, takes samples of dust on snow.
https://www.nationalgeographic.com/history/article/bastille-day-honors-rebellion-sparked-french-revolution
2022-01-26T17:08:58.423000+00:00
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France's national holiday celebrates the day a group of French revolutionaries seized the Bastille, a state prison and symbol of royal overreach. Jean-Baptiste Lallemand depicted this pivotal event of the French Revolution in his painting The Storming of the Bastille.
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Revolutions 101
Revolutions have brought about some of the most radical transformations in world history and politics. Learn what led to the American, French, Latin American, and Russian revolutions, as well as the characteristics commonly shared by nearly all political uprisings.
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https://www.nationalgeographic.com/animals/article/some-dogs-are-exceptionally-gifted-and-talented
2021-07-14T03:55:07.878000+00:00
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Border collies (pictured, a working dog in Arizona) are likely so smart because they were bred to pay close attention to herders' commands.
A Brief History of Dogs
As humankind's oldest companion, dogs have been by our side for thousands of years. See how deeply our histories connect and learn how these lovable canines evolved from formidable carnivores to loyalprotectors and members of the family.
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https://www.nationalgeographic.com/photo-of-the-day/media-spotlight/tornado-cloud-texas-storm
2021-07-14T13:12:54.014000+00:00
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Mother Ship
https://www.nationalgeographic.com/science/article/the-unusual-lambda-variant-is-rapidly-spreading-in-south-america-heres-what-we-know
2021-07-14T16:47:58.094000+00:00
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Health workers travel to the Uros islands, in the Titicaca lake in Puno, Peru, to inoculate citizens with a dose of the COVID-19 vaccine on July 7, 2021.
https://www.nationalgeographic.com/animals/article/us-government-funded-tiger-farming-guidelines
2021-07-14T12:37:35.590000+00:00
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Tourists watch tigers at the Heilongjiang Siberian Tiger Park in 2017 in Harbin, China. The park is believed to be the world's largest captive tiger breeding operation.
https://www.nationalgeographic.com/history/article/appalachian-hospitals-are-disappearing
2021-10-22T01:41:39.702000+00:00
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Williamson Memorial Hospital first closed in 2018. It was purchased by local businessmen who were able to keep it open until April 2020, when it closed a second time. The new owner is Williamson Health and Wellness Center, which has been the catalyst in the community for a wide range of public-health initiatives.
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Outside view of Williamson Memorial Hospital in the central district of Williamson. The hospital first closed in 2018. It was purchased by local businessmen who were able to keep it open until April 2020 when it closed a second time.
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The Williamson Health and Wellness Center built public gardens across from the public housing apartments in town so people could grow fresh food. It is part of the center’s many programs aimed at building healthier habits in the community. Access to healthy foods is extremely limited in Mingo County. The Williamson Health and Wellness Center delivers fresh fruit and vegetables throughout the county and oversees community gardens. Here, gardeners place bags over plants during an unexpected spring freeze.
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Donovan “Dino” Beckett was born and raised in Williamson and is co-founder, CEO, and chief medical officer of the Williamson Health and Wellness Center. The center focuses on addressing the social determinants of health. It’s structured around the conviction that health care extends to housing, employment, transportation, and more.
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Nurse practitioner and former coal miner Jerome Cline visits Dalton Burgess as part of a home-visit program. The Williamson Health and Wellness Center launched a community health worker program to assist people struggling with serious illness. The home-visit program has led to a considerable reduction in emergency room visits. Burgess worked underground in coal mines for 25 years and now suffers from stage 4 chronic obstructive pulmonary disease.
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Randy Smith, owner of the Mountaineer Barbershop, cuts Steve Leedy's hair. Leedy is a Dozer Operator on a strip mine. Since the collapse of the coal industry in 2012 the strip mine he works at has been bought and sold by five different companies and Leedy went from making $40 an hour to less than $20 an hour.
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The Williamson Health and Wellness Center convenes small focus groups with community members. Carolyn Dillard, 40, is a single mother of two young boys. She advocates for addressing postpartum depression and counsels women on confronting mental health issues.
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Mingo County, West Virginia, is ranked as the second least healthy county in a state that’s consistently at or near the bottom in health outcomes. Among the prevalent health care issues are diabetes, obesity, and congestive heart failure.
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High School students Daniel Gibson and Tyler Woodruff play tennis on a public tennis court in West Williamson.
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Israel Reynolds and Brittany Sipple work for Elite Care EMS. Their jobs as paramedics have been greatly impacted by the closure of Williamosn Memorial Hospital. At the height of the pandemic they struggled to find hospitals that were not full and would admit patients from Mingo County.
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The Rural Area Medical sets up free health care events to reach medically underserved communities. In Jellico, TN, where the hospital recently closed, healthcare is provided at a clinic set up in the local high school. Dental care is by far the busiest section of the Remote Area Medical. Dental emergencies are commonly treated in the hospital ER.
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On the third weekend in May, Remote Area Medical came to Jellico, offering free medical and dental care. For more than 35 years, RAM has been operating pop-up clinics all over the country, serving those most in need.
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Thursday night service at the Church of Liberty and Unity in West Williamson. Several members of the church worked at Williamson Memorial before it closed.
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Teresa Tyson visits Shirley Sparks, 84, at her home in Wise County, Virginia. Sparks, who passed away this summer, lived alone and Tyson liked to stop by and check in on her.
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Alison Jeffers and Dallan Phillips work for Scott County Emergency services. The county hospital is severely underfunded and offers limited emergency services. Here, Clarence Ryan is in the process of being transported to the hospital for post COVID-19 related symptoms.
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Arvallea Brooks prepares to be taken to the hospital an hour away to be treated for chest and stomach pain. Alison Jeffers and Dallan Phillips work for Scott County Emergency services. The county hospital offers limited emergency services.
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Lee County Community Hospital closed in 2013 and is scheduled to be reopened this year by Ballad Health.
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Jody Willis, a family nurse practitioner and medical provider for the Stone Mountain Health Services Black Lung Program in southwest Virginia, grew up in the region; her father was a coal miner. “They’ve worked all of these tremendous amounts of hours to get to the point that they can enjoy some of their hobbies, enjoy their grandkids,” Willis says of the miners in her care, “and now they just don’t have the physical capacity to do what they wanted to do.”
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Edward Hensley has advanced stage Coal workers' pneumoconiosis. He receives treatment for this incurable disease at the Stone Mountain Black Lung Clinic in St Charles, Virginia. The clinic provides screening, diagnosis, treatment, pulmonary rehabilitation and benefits counseling for patients suffering from black lung disease.
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A strip mine on Black Mountain. In the summer of 2004, three-year-old Jeremy Davidson was asleep in his home in Appalachia, Virginia, when a half-ton boulder became dislodged on Black Mountain, tumbled down 649 feet of wooded hillside, and exploded through his bedroom wall, pulverizing him in bed. The incident sparked national media attention and communities in the region began anti-mountain-top removal campaigns. Black mountain, which straddles the border of Kentucky and Virginia, continues to be mined to this day.
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A memorial service is held outside the Williamson Memorial Hospital in honor of Donna Jean Gooslin, a much beloved nurse who worked at the now closed hospital.
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Williamson Memorial Hospital overlooks the central district of Williamson. The hospital first closed in 2018. It was purchased by local businessmen who were able to keep it open until April 2020 when it closed a second time. The town once thrived in a coal mining economy, with a population of 10,000. The population today is around 2,800. This decline has contributed to a shortage of emergency services in the county.
https://www.nationalgeographic.com/animals/article/new-records-reveal-suffering-of-roadside-zoo-elephants-in-the-united-states
2021-12-09T21:04:27.556000+00:00
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Minnie is the last remaining elephant with the Commerford Zoo, a traveling animal facility. The zoo’s two other elephants, Beulah and Karen, died in 2019 after prolonged illnesses.
https://www.nationalgeographic.com/animals/article/offspring-of-one-of-worlds-biggest-bull-sharks-found
2021-07-13T16:18:22.794000+00:00
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Bull sharks, which tend to hang out near coastal areas, can also tolerate fresh water.
Shark Attacks 101
Shark attacks are shocking and scary, but how common are they? The truth is that shark attacks against humans are extremely rare, and you're more likely to die from drowning or from being struck by lightning. This video shows some of the reasons for shark attacks and how you can reduce your risk of becoming a target for sharks.Read more about the 2015 Shark Attack season.
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https://www.nationalgeographic.com/travel/article/a-legendary-arizona-river-is-under-threat
2022-01-26T17:09:34.575000+00:00
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The Salt River reflects the desert mountains near Mesa, Arizona. The river is a watery playground for outdoor activities such as fishing, kayaking, and tubing.
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The Verde River, a major tributary of the Salt, flows through a rare ecosystem of desert deciduous forest.
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Once slated for removal by the U.S. Forest Service for reasons of public safety, wild horses living in the Salt River watershed are now protected by state law.
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Trail riders cross the Salt River near Phoenix, Arizona. The modern city was made possible by the Indigenous Huhugam people, who created the largest and most complex irrigation system in ancient North America.
https://www.nationalgeographic.com/photo-of-the-day/media-spotlight/elephant-dust-chobe-botswana
2021-07-13T13:12:35.864000+00:00
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Dusting Off
https://www.nationalgeographic.com/magazine/article/a-new-idea-to-fight-brain-cancer-and-more-breakthroughs
2022-06-20T15:40:18.800000+00:00
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This is one of the mummified macaws and parrots—birds believed to have been kept for their colorful feathers—that archaeologists discovered in the remains of ancient societies in northern Chile.
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When Queen Hatshepsut (above) and other royal mummies were moved in a parade to the new National Museum of Egyptian Civilization, it wasn't the first road trip for all of them. Ramses II, often portrayed as the pharaoh mentioned in the biblical Book of Exodus, traveled to Paris for a makeover in the 1970s.
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A system now being tested would use nanoparticles to carry cancer-fighting drugs through blood vessels—seen here illuminated by fluorescent dyes—directly to the brain (shown as black).
https://www.nationalgeographic.com/magazine/article/what-a-sandcastle-specialist-uses-to-build-his-masterpieces
2022-06-20T15:43:30.080000+00:00
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Teapot
A relic from his daughter’s childhood, this toy is Gagnon’s favorite tool. He uses it for “wet carving,” gently splashing away sand in areas where he wants arched openings and doorways.
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Big bucket
This one is for transporting water from the ocean; Gagnon uses other, bottomless buckets as foundation molds.
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Fine carving tools
These allow Gagnon to add double windows and other symmetrical details. He designed the black trefoil tool to form three-column clusters.
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PVC pipe
Weighted with sand and water, it’s ideal for tamping down sand in molds.
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Shapers
Domes are formed by running the underside of the brim of these hatlike tools in a circular motion over edges.
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Trowels
These are great for making patterns and, literally, cutting corners.
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Sand scapers
Stamped into moist sand, these tools quickly shape forms such as stairs. Gagnon made the two sand scapers toward the right.
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Small shovel
Gagnon uses this to move and dig sand and test its quality. “The first thing I do every morning is poke the sand with the shovel,” he says. “If it sounds crunchy, it’s no good.”
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Since building simple castles 20 years ago to amuse his daughter, former architect Lou Gagnon has developed his sand sculpting into a distinctive art form with customized tools.
https://www.nationalgeographic.com/magazine/article/in-americas-hunger-crisis-charities-and-neighbors-are-lifelines
2022-06-20T15:36:52.640000+00:00
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Maysel, W. Va.
Autumn (at left) and Sydney King unpack food sent home with them from Clay Elementary School as their mother, Jennifer, reviews their homework. Jennifer attended the school and had the same speech therapist as her daughters. The therapist, Kathi Linkinogger, often drops off food for the Kings, and Jennifer considers her “practically like family.” The Kings do not have a car and rely on others for rides to a grocery store. With a two-million-dollar federal grant, the school district is developing innovative ways to encourage self-resilience and confidence, to equip students to handle life’s challenges. It has designed a curriculum that teaches skills such as cooking basic meals, growing vegetables, and household budgeting.
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Clay County, W. Va.
Alex McBee (at left), Jen Lively, and Chris Lively hold their dogs outside their home in Clay County. They live miles from the nearest grocery store and have been receiving deliveries of food from Amanda Shelton, a teacher at Clay County High School, since the beginning of the pandemic. “If it wasn’t for them,” Chris says, “we’d probably starve.”
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Clay County, W. Va.
Chris searches for roots on a hillside near his home. He met his wife, Jen, when they were in junior high in Ohio. They’ve lived in West Virginia since 2016; selling roots that they find is their only source of income.
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Clay County, W. Va.
Brian Lively, 18, helps his parents dig for wild roots such as black cohosh, bloodroot, and ginseng during warm seasons when he’s not in school. The roots, when dried, are sold for use in homeopathic medicines. It’s grueling work, and Brian takes pride in it. “It’s hard to take help from someone else when you could do it yourself,” he says.
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Dunlow, W. Va.
Willard Marcum, a veteran firefighter, drives the 725th and final vehicle through the Dunlow Community Center food pantry in Dunlow, West Virginia, nearly 12 hours after the first volunteers arrived that morning. Laid off from his coal mining job in 2019, Marcum now works up to 90 hours a week to support his wife and seven grandchildren. He picks up food for them and for elderly neighbors who don’t have cars. Bill Likens, who opened the food pantry in 2003, has seen the local need increase since several pantries in neighboring towns closed, leading many people to travel to Dunlow and even spend the night in line in their cars. The number of families served by the food pantry grew from 300 in 2019 to 900 in November 2020, its busiest month because of pandemic-related job losses and heightened food insecurity around the holidays. Volunteers provide each family with about 130 pounds of food and other necessities.
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Make Food Not Waste, a Detroit, Michigan, civic organization, recovers food that would otherwise be discarded and makes healthy meals for the community. The group works with food service operators to prevent food from being wasted and holds outreach events to encourage cooks to waste less food.
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Helen King holds up jars of canned vegetables from her garden in Maysel, West Virginia. The Kings do not have a car and rely on people to provide rides to the grocery store.
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Queens, N.Y.
On Tuesday mornings, CENTI Queens, a church and community organization, passes out free groceries to those in need. Volunteers create an assembly line for food distribution as the trucks arrive. Many people who pick up groceries say they lost jobs because of COVID-19 and are struggling to feed their families. People start lining up at about 9 a.m., and the food is distributed around noon.
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The National Geographic Society, committed to illuminating and protecting the wonder of our world, funded Natalie Keyssar’s storytelling about faith in the American South in 2020-21.
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Queens, N.Y.
A community refrigerator in Queens allows people to drop off or pick up donated food.
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Houston, Tex.
Kimberline Rivas (at right) and Lawrence Walker, members of the Lucille’s 1913 kitchen staff, prepare meals to be distributed for free across Houston. Lucille’s 1913 is a nonprofit run by Chris Williams, owner of the popular restaurant Lucille’s. Williams targets “forgotten people” in retirement facilities and other places. Lucille’s 1913 now serves up to 800 meals a day for those in need. Neighborhoods receiving meals include one where Williams’s extended family resides.
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Houston, Tex.
Chris Williams, chef and owner of Lucille’s, stands next to a photograph of his great-grandmother, Lucille B. Smith, for whom the restaurant is named.
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Chef Ederique Goudia stands in the kitchen at the Jefferson Avenue Presbyterian Church. Goudia uses rescued food donated to the Make Food Not Waste organization to create healthy meals each week for local community members.
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The Detroit Community Fridge on the city’s east side was founded by two Wayne State University students in August 2020 and gives people access to free fresh and frozen foods and other necessary supplies such as diapers, feminine products, and clothes. Additional fridges are planned across Detroit this year.
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Minneapolis, Minn.
Cooks Rosa Sanchez (at left) and Dolores Hidalgo at Chowgirls Catering in Minneapolis prepare sandwiches to be distributed to people in need as part of the Minnesota Central Kitchen program.
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The National Geographic Society, committed to illuminating and protecting the wonder of our world, has funded Explorer David Guttenfelder’s storytelling about the human condition since 2014.
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Michelle Vue carries bags of food, delivered by volunteers from the nonprofit organization Involve MN, back to the forest encampment where she, her partner, and others live in St. Paul. Vue moved to Minnesota from Mississippi in February 2020 and stayed with a friend in Minneapolis until he was evicted from his home in July. Vue and others in the camp are ethnic Hmong and have endured racist abuse from people who fear they’ll spread COVID-19.
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Kaitlin Knutson of Involve MN, left, hands a Thanksgiving meal to Christy Haanen, who lives in this tented encampment in a park in St. Paul. Before the pandemic, the police would force people to leave every few days and even destroy their shelters. “Not all of us choose to be out here,” Haanen says. “But many don’t have a family. They don’t have anybody. Except the family they made out here.”
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A volunteer with Involve MN distributes Thanksgiving meals at a homeless encampment in St. Paul. The group was started in 2019 by Grant Snyder, a Minneapolis police officer, and his wife, Melanie, to serve the homeless and vulnerable. Minnesota, which boasts 16 Fortune 500 companies, has dozens of homeless encampments scattered throughout the Twin Cities area. The pandemic added more than 100,000 food-insecure people in the state in 2020. The Minnesota Central Kitchen, an initiative of the Second Harvest Heartland hunger-relief network, provides free meals at more than 50 sites in the Twin Cities metro region. Through partnerships with MCK, furloughed chefs are paid to make meals for the hungry. The organization has served 1.5 million meals since March 2020. Eleven kitchens and catering companies participate in the program, which has saved 200 jobs and rescued 1.6 million pounds of surplus food.
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Queens, N.Y.
María Quinteres, 84, wearing an American flag face mask, waits with hundreds of others at Latinos Unidos, a group that hands out free food boxes each Friday. Food insecurity may have affected about 45 million Americans in 2020, according to Feeding America, the country’s largest hunger-relief organization.
https://www.nationalgeographic.com/history/article/cuba-protests
2021-07-13T14:42:09.190000+00:00
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People take part in a demonstration against the Cuban government in Havana, on July 11, 2021. Thousands of Cubans took part in rare protests against the communist government, marching through various towns chanting Down with the dictatorship and We want liberty.
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AP photographer, Spaniard Ramon Espinosa, is attacked by the police while covering a demonstration against the Cuban government in Havana, on July 11, 2021. Thousands of Cubans took part in rare protests against the communist government.
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Government supporters shout pro-government slogans as anti-government protesters march in Havana, Cuba, Sunday, July 11, 2021. Hundreds of demonstrators went out to the streets in several cities in Cuba to protest against ongoing food shortages, escalating prices for basic products and other issues.
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A man waves a Cuban flag in the street near Versailles, a Cuban restaurant in the Little Havana neighborhood, at a demonstration in support of the protests in Cuba on July 11, 2021 in Miami, Florida. Thousands took to the streets across Cuba in a rare outburst demanding reform.
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Singer Yotuel Romero addresses protesters gathered in front of the Versailles restaurant in Miami's Little Havana neighborhood in a show of solidarity with the thousands of Cubans who took to the streets across the island on July 11, 2021 to demand freedom, reform, COVID-19 vaccinations and more. Romero was part of a group of artists that created the song, 'Patria y Vida,' the unofficial anthem of those who demand a change in Cuba.
https://www.nationalgeographic.com/environment/article/what-we-can-learn-from-paris-oldest-tree-20210713
2021-07-13T18:03:13.627000+00:00
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A concrete crutch supports Paris's oldest tree, a black locust, Robinia pseudoacacia, in the Viviani Square.
https://www.nationalgeographic.com/travel/article/could-pilgrimages-be-the-next-post-covid-travel-trend
2021-07-12T17:40:00.332000+00:00
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Two people stand on a hill overlooking the cathedral of Santiago de Compostela, in Galicia, after arriving via the Camino de Santiago.
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Backpackers trek the Kumano Kodo pilgrimage route in Japan’s Kii Mountain Range. The UNESCO World Heritage path crisscrosses the Kii Hanto peninsula and leads to the Kumano Sanzan or the Three Grand Shrines of Kumano.
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Hindu devotees prepare to bathe in the confluence of the Ganges, Yamuna, and Sarasvati rivers in Uttar Pradesh’s Allahabad, on Jan. 14, 2016. The ritual is part of the Kumbh Mela, held every 12 years, that draws millions looking to absolve themselves of their sins.
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After more than a year of pandemic lockdowns, travelers are flocking to pilgrim routes, such as this one to the summit of Ol Doinyo Lengai, or “Mountain of God,” in Tanzania.
https://www.nationalgeographic.com/family/article/your-family-guide-to-stargazing-the-dog-days-of-summer
2021-07-12T17:05:42.789000+00:00
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In early August, stargazers can see Jupiter and Saturn in the late evening.
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On July 25, the star Regulus—the brightest start in the constellation Leo—will appear between Venus and Mars.
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The Summer Triangle star group cuts across the Milky Way.
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Sirius rising at dawn in late August
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Saturn (left) and Jupiter appear as two bright spots in this photo taken in the Outer Banks, North Carolina, during the 2020 dog days. In the year since, the planets have moved farther left of the Milky Way and have switched positions in the sky.
https://www.nationalgeographic.com/environment/article/will-dams-spoil-one-of-europe-last-wild-rivers
2021-07-19T15:29:28.823000+00:00
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A hydropower plant sits in the river bed of the Langarica River, a tributary to the Vjosa.
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Miri Merkaj, 18, is a young shepherd from Kuta, Albania. If a dam is built in Pocem, his family will loose all their land to an artificial lake created in the valley.
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Philippe Theou, a biologist from France, and Marta Crivellaro from Italy examine the size and form of rocks in the riverbed near Permet.
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A stalled dam project in Kalivac.
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Robert Tabacu is a hiking guide and rafting tour operator. In the evening he often goes fishing with his traditional cast-net. If dams are constructed along the Vjosa, he fears that fewer tourists will come to the region.
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Dona Tabacu owns a small eco-camping business with her husband, Robert, near Permet. She is an activist against the dam construction.
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A soccer tournament at the school in Kuta. If a dam is built in Pocem, the village Kuta will be on the edge of the artificial lake that will flood local farm fields.
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Ani Zekaj and Miri Merkaj milk sheep near Kuta. A dam means they would loose their livelihood, due to flooding of the grazing fields.
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Petrit Canaj on his fields near the village of Kuta. If a Dam is constructed in Pocem, most of his land will be flooded.
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Young boys hang out on an old bridge near Fitore in the Vjosa delta.
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The Vjosa River near the border between Albania and Greece.
https://www.nationalgeographic.com/history/news/article/muslim-vaccine-response
2021-07-12T13:54:18.858000+00:00
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Sara Ahmed, 29, of Anaheim receives the vaccine during a COVID-19 vaccine drive at the Islamic Center of Santa Ana, California.
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A taco truck offers meals during a COVID-19 vaccine drive for people at the Islamic Center of Santa Ana, May 1, 2021 in California.
https://www.nationalgeographic.com/photo-of-the-day/media-spotlight/ichetuchknee-river-florida-raft
2021-07-12T13:11:31.580000+00:00
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River Rafters
https://www.nationalgeographic.com/science/article/what-virgin-galactic-milestone-flight-means-for-the-future-of-tourists-in-space
2021-07-11T16:02:07.461000+00:00
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Virgin Galactic's Richard Branson and other passengers wait for the V.S.S. Unity, Virgin Galactic’s suborbital rocket-powered space plane, to be released from the mothership.
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On July 11, Virgin Galactic’s space plane V.S.S. Unity lit its rocket motor and flew to more than 53 miles above Earth’s surface, sending the company’s founder Richard Branson to the edge of space.
https://www.nationalgeographic.com/photo-of-the-day/media-spotlight/puri-india-festival-crowds
2021-07-09T20:48:51.499000+00:00
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Crowded Celebration
https://www.nationalgeographic.com/photo-of-the-day/media-spotlight/wild-horses-nevada-mustangs
2021-07-09T20:48:00.720000+00:00
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Chasing Wild
https://www.nationalgeographic.com/animals/article/wisconsin-wolf-hunt-killed-one-third-state-population
2021-07-09T15:09:48.989000+00:00
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Gray wolves were extirpated from Wisconsin in the early 1900s but returned in the 1970s from populations in Minnesota. In January 2021, they lost protections afforded by the Endangered Species Act.
https://www.nationalgeographic.com/history/article/a-century-of-trauma-at-boarding-schools-for-native-american-children-in-the-united-states
2021-07-09T13:48:55.609000+00:00
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In adulthood, Zitkála-Šá grew her hair long in defiance of the boarding school that had forced her to cut it to assimilate into white culture. As a writer and activist, she spent her life fighting for Native American rights.
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Over its nearly 30 years in operation, more than 12,000 Native American children attended the Carlisle Indian Industrial School in Carlisle, Pennsylvania. The school's philosophy was to kill the Indian in its students and instead instill them with white settlers' cultural values.
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In the 19th and 20th centuries, the U.S. established federally funded Indian Boarding Schools that aimed to strip Native American children of their culture. The Carlisle Indian Industrial School, pictured here, was the most prominent.
https://www.nationalgeographic.com/photo-of-the-day/media-spotlight/sahel-desert-mauritania-sand
2021-07-09T13:13:42.556000+00:00
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Swallowed by Sand
https://www.nationalgeographic.com/travel/article/best-bridges-in-world
2021-07-09T13:37:03.351000+00:00
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Each year the Q'eswachaka is untied and woven anew by local bridge builders.
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The name gives it all away: The Living Root Bridge is made from grounded tree roots, which prevent the bridge from being washed away by floods.
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The Webb Bridge connects the Docklands to Victoria Harbor in Melbourne, Australia.
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Tourists walk across the 516 Arouca suspension bridge in Arouca, Portugal, on June 8, 2021. Each day, guides lead seven crossings of about 70 people across the bridge, for a daily maximum of 500 visitors.
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Visitors can take a gondola ride beneath the romantic Bridge of Sighs.
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The Henderson Waves Bridge in Singapore is great for bird watching at sunrise, or from 7 p.m. to 2 a.m. each evening when LED lights make it shine.
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In this 2015 photo, then-President Barack Obama and his family are joined by former President George W. Bush, former first lady Laura Bush, Georgia’s Rep. John Lewis, and other dignitaries to march across the historic Edmund Pettus Bridge.
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A woman crosses this stepping stone bridge on a rainy day in Phoenix Ancient Town.
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Some of the world’s most beautiful bridges, such as Portugal’s 516 Arouca, are architectural feats that keep visitors in a state of suspended disbelief.
https://www.nationalgeographic.com/science/article/the-delta-variant-is-serious-heres-why-its-on-the-rise
2021-07-09T16:52:11.165000+00:00
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A medical worker wearing protective gear walks through a disinfection cabin at the COVID-19 unit of the Mariinsky Hospital in Saint Petersburg on July 7, 2021. Russia counted more than 25,000 new daily infections on July 4, 2021, after the number of deaths set a new record. The highly contagious Delta variant is now the dominant coronavirus in Russia.
https://www.nationalgeographic.com/science/article/new-cancer-treatments-may-be-on-the-horizonthanks-to-mrna-vaccines
2021-07-08T16:42:52.613000+00:00
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Malignant melanoma (pink) is one of the most feared human cancers. Its spread is rapid and it can invade almost any organ from its origin including, in this picture, the lung. In these images the colors are not the true pigmentation of the cells.
https://www.nationalgeographic.com/travel/article/why-wisconsin-is-a-hub-of-visionary-art
2022-01-26T17:09:32.640000+00:00
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Lumberjack-turned-sculptor Fred Smith’s decked-out concrete statues are among the works by visionary artists now on view at the Art Preserve.
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Artist Loy Bowlin’s sparkly “Beautiful Holy Jewel Home,” an ordinary house he festooned with faux gems and glitter, is among multiple built environments relocated to the Art Preserve.
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”The Forevertron,” a scrap-metal sculpture, looms over Dr. Evermor’s Sculpture Park in Baraboo, Wisconsin. Creator Tom Every believed it could blast him into space to chat with God.
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The Art Preserve, created by the architectural firm Tres Birds, provides new exhibition space for self-taught or visionary artists in Sheboygan, Wisconsin. Its airy wood and glass design is meant to evoke the outdoors, where many of these works first appeared.
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Fred Smith’s Concrete Park, a wooded greenspace filled with embellished cement statues, is a prime example of Wisconsin’s bountiful visionary art scene.
https://www.nationalgeographic.com/history/history-magazine/article/francis-drake-pirate-england-spain-slavery
2021-07-08T16:11:50.502000+00:00
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A 1577 document detailing Drake’s plans to enter the Pacific, a feat he achieved a year later as part of his circumnavigation of the globe.
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DRAKE’S FLAGSHIP
Originally dubbed the Pelican, the Golden Hind was the only one of Drake’s five-ship fleet that sailed around the world between 1577 and 1580. 16th-century watercolor, Cornelis de Vries
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Francis Drake. 1581 miniature, Nicholas Hilliard
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Sir John Hawkins in a 16th-century portrait. National Maritime Museum, London
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Elizabeth I rewarded her favorites with miniature portraits. This 1595 locket by Nicholas Hilliard was presented to Drake. V&A Museum, London
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The fort of San Juan de Ulúa at the mouth of the Port of Veracruz, Mexico
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ELIZABETH’S SEA DOGS
John Hawkins (left), Francis Drake (center), and Thomas Cavendish (right) were three privateers employed to protect England’s interests at sea and harass its enemies. 17th-century portrait, unidentified artist. National Maritime Museum, London
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NAVIGATION APPS
A handy “Swiss Army knife” of scientific instruments—including a compass, perpetual calendar, and geometric square—is believed to have belonged to Drake. It was made by Humphrey Cole, one of the finest makers of navigational tools in Elizabethan England.
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PASSAGE OF PERIL
Churned by currents and winds, the body of water between Chile’s Cape Horn and the South Shetland Islands of Antarctica is known as the Drake Passage. On emerging from the Strait of Magellan in 1578, Drake was blown far off course, but he observed open water south of the South America.
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A PIRATE’S COAT OF ARMS
Two pole stars separated by the sea form the centerpiece of Sir Francis Drake’s arms. The Latin motto “Sic parvis magna” is roughly translated as “From small beginnings comes greatness.”
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Francis Drake kneels before Elizabeth I and prepares to be knighted. 20th-century illustration, Jean-Léon Huens
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HOME FROM THE SEA
In 1580 Drake bought Buckland Abbey near Plymouth, a 13th-century former Cistercian abbey that was dissolved by Henry VIII.
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TREASURE HUNT
In a July 1586 letter, Francis Drake informs William Cecil, lord high treasurer and queen’s adviser, that he had not intercepted the Spanish treasure fleet during his latest sojourn to the Caribbean.
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Drake’s attack on Cartagena de Indias (in modern Colombia) in 1586. Hand-colored, late 16th-century engraving based on an original by G.B. Boazio
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DRAKE JEWEL
Elizabeth I gave Drake a cameo that juxtaposes a dark-skinned face atop a light-skinned one, which some say symbolizes how through the help of Africa, England will defeat Spain.
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Mapping Drake's Expedition
The 1589 publication of A Summarie and True Discourse of Sir Frances [sic] Drake’s West Indian Voyage is a chronicle of Drake’s great expedition of 1585-86 and features illustrated maps created by Italian cartographer Giovanni Battista Boazio. One map shows Drake’s fleet in front of Santo Domingo (today in the Dominican Republic). Boazio incorporated distinctive creatures from the Americas, including a sea turtle and a caiman. 16th-century color engraving based on original map by G.B. Boazio
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CONQUERING THE WORLD
Samuel Lane’s 19th-century portrait of Sir Francis Drake reflects the evolution of the Elizabethan sailor into a British imperial hero.
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2021-07-08T15:07:51.968000+00:00
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Dall's sheep above the Toklat River in Denali National Park. Climate change is thawing the topmost layer of permafrost in much of the park, disrupting the main park road.
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2021-07-08T13:13:02.479000+00:00
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Ostriches On The Go
https://www.nationalgeographic.com/magazine/article/these-see-through-frogs-are-full-of-surprises-feature
2022-06-20T15:35:52.811000+00:00
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A male reticulated glass frog (Hyalinobatrachium valerioi) hangs upside down on a leaf next to its eggs in Costa Rica’s Caribbean rainforest. One theory suggests that the spotted pattern on the frog’s back mimics the eggs, confusing predators.
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This newly discovered glass frog in the Hyalinobatrachium genus measures less than an inch long. The amphibian is unique because of its high-pitched whistle and the black dots covering its body, which could act as camouflage in its rainforest environment.
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Embryos of the Wiley’s glass frog (Nymphargus wileyi), endemic to Ecuador’s eastern Andes, hang from the tip of a fern leaf. When the eggs hatch into tadpoles, they’ll fall into the stream below to continue their development.
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An arachnid eats eggs of the emerald glass frog (Espadarana prosoblepon) in northwestern Ecuador’s Río Manduriacu Reserve. Parents of this species do not care for their young, leaving the eggs vulnerable to predation.
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The Manduriacu glass frog (Nymphargus manduriacu) was scientifically described just a few years ago. The rare yellow-spotted frog is an opportunistic hunter, waiting until its prey—a small insect or spider—walks by, and then pouncing.
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A female Magdalena giant glass frog (Ikakogi tayrona) covers her eggs in the Sierra Nevada de Santa Marta region of northeastern Colombia. This one-inch-long species is unusual in that mothers care for their embryos.
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A male sun glass frog’s heart beats visibly through its chest in western Ecuador. Males of this species are actively involved in protecting and caring for their embryos.
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The eggs of a female sun glass frog (Hyalinobatrachium aureoguttatum) are visible through her stomach. This image was taken in a mobile studio.
https://www.nationalgeographic.com/family/article/challenge-6-explore-the-trees-with-a-birdsong-maker
2022-02-28T21:08:27.190000+00:00
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https://www.nationalgeographic.com/animals/article/trout-can-become-addicted-to-meth-heres-why-thats-so-scary
2021-07-07T20:24:57.198000+00:00
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A captive brown trout swims through a reserve in Lombardia, Italy.
https://www.nationalgeographic.com/science/article/your-next-vaccine-could-be-grown-in-a-tobacco-plant
2021-07-07T18:32:37.536000+00:00
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A worker inspects vaccine-containing tobacco plants at Medicago greenhouse in Quebec City.
https://www.nationalgeographic.com/animals/article/sharks-form-years-long-friendships-dispelling-myths
2021-07-08T16:16:45.673000+00:00
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Sand tiger sharks and spade fish swim through the clear waters above a shipwreck off North Carolina.
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Caribbean reef sharks gather around the rock and corals near Grand Bahama Island.
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Lemon sharks (seen off the coast of Grand Bahama) seek out companionship of other sharks for no apparent reason.
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Two sand tiger sharks huddle together off Grand Bahama. The species has a complex social system.
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Sand tiger sharks gather above a shipwreck off the coast of North Carolina.
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Lemon sharks (above, animals swarm around a coral mound off Grand Bahama Island) can display certain personalities, such as gregarious or standoffish.
Sharks 101
Sharks can rouse fear and awe like no other creature in the sea. Find out about the world's biggest and fastest sharks, how sharks reproduce, and how some species are at risk of extinction.
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https://www.nationalgeographic.com/culture/article/covid19-and-indigenous-communities
2022-01-26T17:10:01.186000+00:00
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Eagle Butte is the largest city on the Cheyenne River Reservation, a sovereign Lakota Nation in the state of South Dakota. The city is home to tribal headquarters. Like the rest of the U.S., Cheyenne River has reached a COVID-19 vaccination plateau. But in Cheyenne River, the root cause of hesitancy is lingering mistrust of the U.S. government tied to the history of betrayal.
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The Grindstone family climbs down an embankment that leads to the Moreau River on their family land on the Cheyenne River Reservation, a sovereign Lakota Nation within the state of South Dakota. Mona Grindstone, second from right, has received both doses of the vaccine while her husband Earl, right, has so far chosen not to get the vaccine. Since the arrival of the COVID-19 vaccine early in the year, tribal leaders and members have been navigating differing opinions about its effectiveness, safety, and trustworthiness.
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Cheyenne River Chairman Harold Frazier at Gunville Ranch on the Cheyenne River Reservation, a sovereign nation in South Dakota. Frazier says the hardest thing about the pandemic for his people has been not being able to see family. “The basis of our culture is family and it’s really taken a toll on a lot of people,” he says. Though Frazier has not gotten the vaccine, he encourages everyone living on the reservation, tribal member or not, to get it. He recognizes that vaccine hesitancy comes “mainly from the historical” relations between the tribe and the government, but also from lingering doubt. “A lot of the questions that people have” about the long-term effects of the vaccine, “we just don’t have answers,” Frazier says.
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A small community on the Cheyenne River Reservation, Cherry Creek has been occupied for at least 270 years and is believed to be the oldest continuously inhabited place in the state of South Dakota. It is of great cultural and historical importance to Lakota people.
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Infection control nurse Molly Longrake, left, and Vicki Hebb talk in the waiting room of the Cherry Creek clinic while Hebb waits the required 15 minutes after her Covid-19 vaccination. Cherry Creek is a small community on the Cheyenne River Reservation, a sovereign Lakota nation in South Dakota. Cherry Creek is believed to be the oldest continuously inhabited place in the state and is of great cultural and historical importance to Lakota people.
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Kayla In The Woods, 27, with her children at Brisky’s, a popular spot for recreation in Eagle Butte, the largest city on the Cheyenne River Reservation, a sovereign nation within the state of South Dakota.
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Marcella LeBeau with her granddaughter, Dawnee LeBeau. Marcella, 101, is the oldest matriarch on the Cheyenne River Reservation, a sovereign Lakota nation in the state of South Dakota. Marcella and Dawnee are both fully vaccinated. “I do the best I can for myself and for my people,” says Marcella who was a nurse for over 30 years. The day this photo was made was the second time Dawnee and Marcella were able to spend time together since the pandemic began. “It’s part of our way to check in on each other a lot and that changed extremely,” says Dawnee. When Marcella was born in 1919 she wasn’t considered a citizen of the United States. Her great-grandfather fought in the Battle of the Little Bighorn. The fight was an overwhelming victory for the Lakota.
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The gravesite of Sidney Keith, a Lakota medicine man, is located in the St. Joseph Catholic Church cemetery in Cherry Creek. The church was established in 1894. A small community on the Cheyenne River Reservation, Cherry Creek has been occupied for at least 270 years and is believed to be the oldest continuously inhabited place in the state of South Dakota. It is of great cultural and historical importance to Lakota people. In 1881, many Lakota who had fled to Canada after the Battle of the Little Big Horn, returned to Cherry Creek. After Sitting Bull’s murder in 1890, many of his supporters fled to Cherry Creek. Throughout the 20th century, Cherry Creek was known to be strongly committed to traditional Lakota ways.
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The photographs of Frank Cundill, a homesteader and politician, are housed at the Timber Lake and Area Historical Society in Timber Lake, a small community on the Cheyenne River Reservation in South Dakota. Originally from Iowa, in 1911 Cundill joined the migration of people settling the newly opened Cheyenne River Reservation. As soon as he arrived he began taking pictures of his surroundings and selling postcards of his work. The majority of the photographs in the Cundill collection were made between 1911 and the late 1920s. He died in 1965.
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After a snow storm, Moses Adams (13) jumps into a fresh pile of snow while his siblings Reanna (10), Melanie (15) and mother Rojo watch.
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Enoch Adams Jr. of the Kivalina Episcopal Church. Enoch has refused a Covid-19 vaccine stating that the vaccine had been rushed and that he and his family were going to wait for a one-shot vaccine to be introduced. Since the Johnson & Johnson vaccine has been introduced Enoch and his family have still refused to the vaccine saying that It seems all 3 vaccines have the same characteristics as the flu vaccines available. The side effects are too risky. We've taken some in the past, but we ended up getting a really bad case of the flu from the shots. So we don't take those either. My Mom did take the flu vaccine once. She barely survived the side effects. Never again.
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A Bearing Air plane is unloaded after landing with supplies in Kivalina, Alaska. Twice a day a plane from the nearby transport hub of Kotzebue comes in Kivalina, bringing supplies and travelers to and from the village.
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Lucy Adams in her home in Kivalina, Alaska. Like many elders in the community and despite contracting Covid-19 earlier in the year, Lucy has rejected the vaccine.
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The Covid testing sight at the airport in Kotzebue, Alaska. Residence and visitors traveling to villages in the region needed to provide a vaccine card, a negative test and approval from the tribal office before entering the village they were traveling to.
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The “56 Store” as locals call it, at night facing the Kivalina lagoon and the new road built leading to a new school under construction eight miles inland. Nina Swan, the owner of the store, said that her business was not affected by COVID-19.
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A home facing the frozen coastline of the Chukchi Sea. Kivalina is located 80 miles above the Arctic Circle with a population of about 400. For decades, the village has been battling coastal erosion due to climate change and is expected to relocate in the coming years.
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Ramalda Mountainlion poses with a stuffed big horn sheep in her home in Neola, Utah on the Uintah & Ouray Indian Reservation.
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Robinette Tapoof-Valles secures an eagle feather in her daughter, Kriseta Tapoof-Kirk’s headband in Fort Duchesne, Utah. During the lockdown, both mother and daughter had longed for traditional Ute ceremony and dance, and to dress in their handmade regalia with other tribal members. Strict tribal no-travel and curfew mandates locked down the reservation and forced Ute communities to cancel their annual powwow, Bear Dance, and Sundance.
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Three generations of the Myore family pose for a group photo at the Northern Ute Powwow Grounds in Fort Duchesne, Utah. The family members include, from back row left to right, Kennaleigh Teague, Jaclyn Teague, Abby Ignacio and Janik Murray. In the front row, left to right, are Montaya Blackhair, Irene Myore holding infant KleoSue Serawop in a traditional cradleboard, and Ruby Teague. Irene Myore says COVID-19 reminded many Ute families about their cultural priorities: family and community.
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Erias Nez, 16, and Donovan Loneman, 16, perform a Bear Dance step in Myton, Utah on the Uintah & Ouray Indian Reservation. Nez and Loneman have been Bear Dance partners since childhood. Ute families are large and it can be complicated to figure out who is related and how. The Bear Dance is a community dance that helps the youth figure out – who is and who isn’t – biological family. It’s a coming of age celebration.
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The Bear Dance is social ceremony that is seen as medicine, strengthening the community. Traditionaly Ute women ask the men to dance with them. Spring to Fall the Bear Dance travels to several other sister Ute communities in Utah and Colorado. Neola, Utah on the Uintah & Ouray Indian Reservation.
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(left to right) Markus Navanick, Corey Navanick, and Samuel Navanick line dance with Neesah Kanip, Spring Accawanna, and Estrella Nakai. Neola, Utah on the Uintah & Ouray Indian Reservation. April 6, 2021. The Bear Dance is prehistoric mating dance and is one of the oldest ceremonial dances in North America. The Bear Dance honors the bear emerging from hibernation and celebrates Spring.
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JC and Nicole Seneca are successful entrepreneurs at the Seneca Nation Cattaraugus Territory. Through their JC Seneca Foundation, they have helped support the community throughout the pandemic by funding vaccine popups, food drives, activities for youth and financial support for mothers and foster children.
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Tami Thompson administers the vaccine to Firefighter Shawn John at the Cattaraugus Indian Reservation Health Center, Seneca Nation Cattaraugus Territory. The Seneca Nation Government had autonomy for who received the vaccine, taking into consideration recommendations from the CDC and Indian Health Services.
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Lacrosse is a historically ceremonial game in the Seneca Nation Allegany Territory. Hanging on a wall are traditional wooden lacrosse sticks, which are still made by craftspeople in the community. Indoor box lacrosse is a major activity on Seneca territory, with leagues for all ages. Many young athletes have attended college through lacrosse scholarships and some have gone on to play professionally. The Gasdo:wä’ is a cultural and ceremonial headdress for men.
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Whitney Nephew is a language learner who has raised her 5-year-old daughter, Mira, as a first language speaker, the first child with that skill in two generations at the Seneca Nation Cattaraugus Territory. Nephew and her husband Jordon Garrow support food sovereignty and the renewal of traditions within the community.
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Mahto In The Woods, 19, rides a horse on the Cheyenne River Reservation in South Dakota. In The Woods does not trust the U.S. government or the Covid-19 vaccine and has chosen not to get vaccinated. When he was 17 years old, he was in a serious car accident that left him unable to walk and half his face paralyzed. He began riding horses to heal and is now an accomplished horseman and racer. He rides on his family’s land along the Moreau River, the same land on which Crazy Horse and Sitting Bull used to camp.
https://www.nationalgeographic.com/photo-of-the-day/media-spotlight/lake-tanganyika-tanzania-boat
2021-07-07T13:18:50.754000+00:00
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Lake Tanganyika
https://www.nationalgeographic.com/travel/article/covid-19-couldnt-stop-kpop-global-rise
2022-01-26T17:10:04.163000+00:00
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In the Gangnam district of Seoul, tourists take photos on a stage celebrating singer Psy’s 2012 worldwide hit ”Gangnam Style,” in this December 2012 photo. The viral party anthem alerted the West to K-pop's growing influence and helped position Gangnam as a fashion and entertainment hub.
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At KCON, an annual celebration of Korean culture and music held in several cities around the world, superfans get to meet K-pop group idols, such as UP10TION, shown here in Newark, New Jersey, June 2017.
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Millions strong and calling themselves ARMY, devoted fans of boy band BTS include English teacher Ashley Hackworth, here showing off her collection of BTS memorabilia in Anseong, South Korea, September 2020.
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Fans of the movie “Parasite,” which nabbed a historic Best Picture win at the Oscars in 2020, have been visiting locations where the film was shot, such as Sky Pizza, in Seoul.
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After Netflix docuseries “Chef’s Table” featured Buddhist nun Jeong Kwan, visitors began flocking to Baekyangsa Temple, in Jangseong County, for overnight stays and her lessons in cooking vegetarian temple cuisine.
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Images of K-pop stars decorate tuk-tuks in Bangkok, Thailand. In 2019 BTS launched a campaign called “Love Myself,” which encouraged fans to post positive messages about themselves.
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Fans of BTS and other popular K-pop bands have helped push the popularity of Korean culture to new heights, even after the pandemic canceled concerts around the world.
https://www.nationalgeographic.com/animals/article/dams-threaten-last-sturgeon-spawning-grounds-rioni-river-georgia
2022-01-28T17:39:15.272000+00:00
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The Vartsikhe dam, built in 1987 about 70 miles inland from the Black Sea, cut off more than 80 percent of sturgeon spawning grounds. Only a small stretch of the Rioni River downstream is still suitable for the fish to breed.
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A juvenile sturgeon captured and released in April 2020. While finding evidence of spawning in the Rioni is good, this fish is a hybrid between a stellate and Russian sturgeon, a sign the fish are so scarce they struggle to find members of their own species to spawn with.
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The Gumati dam is one of the four Soviet dams that have impacted the Rioni River and hurt sturgeons. The proposed Namakhvani Hydropower Project would be located a few miles upstream from this dam.
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Ecologist Tamar Edisherashvili, who partnered with Fauna and Flora International, helped find evidence that critically endangered sturgeon are still breeding in the Rioni River.
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A stellate sturgeon, one of five critically endangered sturgeons still found in the Rioni River of Georgia. These fish are threatened by the proposed Namakhvani Hydropower Project.
https://www.nationalgeographic.com/animals/article/how-rhino-protectors-in-south-africa-became-threat-to-species
2022-01-26T17:09:33.062000+00:00
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A southern white rhinoceros stands in the bush in South Africa's Kruger National Park, which is home to the largest population of wild rhinos in the world.
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Poachers killed this black rhinocerous for its horn with high-caliber bullets at a water hole in South Africa’s Hluhluwe-Imfolozi Park. They entered the park illegally, likely from a nearby village, and are thought to have used a silenced hunting rifle. Black rhinos number only about 5,000 today.
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A four-man antipoaching team permanently guards the last remaining male northern white rhino on Ol Pejeta Conservancy in Kenya in July 2011.
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A security team member (displaying his “antipoaching unit” tattoo) holds a rhino’s horn at the ranch of John Hume—the world’s top rhino farmer—in Klerksdorp, South Africa. The horns of Hume’s 1,300 rhinos are trimmed every 20 months or so and grow back. He has been storing trimmed horns for years in hopes of a legalized trade, which he says will reduce poaching, a claim many conservationists reject. South Africa lifted its domestic ban on rhino horn just a few months ago.
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Veterinarian Johan Marais (left) prepares to try out a novel treatment—rubber bands used in human surgery—to close a gaping hole in this female rhino’s face made in May 2015 by poachers hacking out her horn. The rhino, named Hope, died more than a year later of a bacterial infection in her intestine.
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A game rancher near Port Elizabeth who couldn’t afford the high cost of protecting his rhinos from poachers sold this one to a more secure operation. The rhino, blindfolded and wearing earplugs to calm it, will be sedated and accompanied by a veterinarian during the 20-hour truck journey to its new home.
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Lulah’s mother was killed by poachers in Kruger National Park. She now lives at Care for Wild Africa, a sanctuary specializing in rhinos. Staff member Dorota Ladosz lives with her full-time and comforts her after surgery to repair wounds inflicted by hyenas before her rescue.
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On Hume’s ranch, a team led by veterinarian Michelle Otto treats an abscess on a male rhino bought from another property owner. Otto speculates that when this animal’s horn was removed, his owner had cut dangerously low, causing an abscess to form.
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These rhinos at a feeding site on Hume’s ranch have recently had their horns trimmed. Unlike elephant ivory, rhino horn grows back when cut properly. He estimates that he has five tons in storage, which could bring him some $45 million. Hume held the first rhino horn auction in South Africa in years in August.
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These white rhinos crossed from Kruger into Sabie Game Park in Mozambique, where 29 white rhinos and two black rhinos were counted in 2015. Rhinos that enter Mozambique are holding their own thanks to efforts to crack down on poachers—but they remain at very high risk.
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Sudan was transferred along with three other northern whites from a zoo in the Czech Republic in 2009. The rhinos, which had not produced offspring in captivity, were brought to the wild in a last-ditch effort to breed them back from the brink of extinction.
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A white rhino calf romps with a juvenile in a game park holding pen in South Africa's KwaZulu-Natal Province.
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An eight-pound rhino horn like this can reap several hundred thousand dollars on the black market. In Asia, some mistakenly believe rhino horn has medicinal properties. It is actually made from keratin, the same material as fingernails and hair.
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A white rhino cow (at left) grazes with a bull that has become her companion after a poaching attack in KwaZulu-Natal Province, South Africa. Using a helicopter, a gang tracked her and her four-week-old calf, shot her with a tranquilizer dart, and cut off her horns with a chain saw. Rangers found her a week later, searching for her calf, which had died, probably of starvation and dehydration.
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Game scouts found this black rhino bull wandering Zimbabwe's Savé Valley Conservancy after poachers shot it several times and hacked off both its horns. Veterinarians had to euthanize the animal because its shattered shoulder couldn't support its weight.
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An anesthetized white rhino cow is left to wake up in a field after a dehorning procedure to deter poachers. Poachers killed a reported 1,054 rhinos in South Africa in 2016.
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Some critics of dehorning say it leaves the animals unprotected against natural predators. Advocates argue that the absence of horns deters poachers and reduces the number of rhinos that die of wounds from fights over territory and mates. An adult rhino packs such an awesome punch, even with a stub of a horn, Hume says. A lion is unlikely to tangle with one, horn or no horn.
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A decomposing rhino with its horns cut off lies where it was strangled in a poacher's wire snare on a private game reserve not far from Kruger National Park in South Africa. Rangers staked out the site, but when the poacher didn't return, reserve officials removed the horns.
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Rodney Landela, pictured in 2014 on an anti-poaching patrol, was arrested in 2016 for allegedly killing a rhino and taking its horn. A highly respected ranger who rose through the ranks quickly, he was a contender to be the park’s next head ranger, many colleagues thought.
https://www.nationalgeographic.com/history/article/war-on-indigenous-amazon-communities-in-brazil
2021-07-19T11:40:39.134000+00:00
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An aerial view of a garimpo, an informal gold mining camp, reveals a path of destruction through rain forest near the Menkragnoti Indigenous Territory, Pará state, Brazil. The practice involves the use of highly toxic mercury to separate gold from the sandy soils of the Amazon, poisoning rivers and streams. Miners have recently attacked Indigenous communities in Pará and Rorarima states.
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Indigenous protesters dance outside the Congressional Palace in Brasilia last month to protest legislation that would roll back protections of Indigenous lands and rights enshrined in Brazil’s constitution. Indigenous leaders say their people are facing the most perilous moment since the country returned to democracy in the 1980s after two decades of military dictatorship.
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An illegal gold strike in the area of the Munduruku Indigenous Territory along the Tapajós River, in Pará state. The mining is wreaking environmental havoc and sowing strife among the 14,000 Munduruku living in the region. Nearly 30 tons of gold are extracted illegally in the state every year, according to official estimates. Critics say the illegal mining is a violent and capital-intensive criminal enterprise that is sowing terror in Indigenous communities.
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An Indigenous protester participates in street demonstrations in June outside the Congressional Palace in Brasilia. Tribes gathered from around Brazil to protest a bill, called PL490, that would legalize mining, logging, and other environmentally destructive industrial projects on Indigenous lands without requiring the informed consent of local communities.
https://www.nationalgeographic.com/family/article/during-their-second-covid-19-summer-unvaccinated-tweens-are-struggling
2021-07-06T11:11:44.176000+00:00
https://i.natgeofe.com/n/75ebf0d2-d00d-451b-91ad-02c8f6b23246/Being-11_FAMILY_0721.jpg
https://www.nationalgeographic.com/travel/article/ancient-wines-are-having-a-moment-in-italy-heres-why
2022-01-26T17:09:35.444000+00:00
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At Elba’s Arrighi winery, workers put grapes into baskets that will be submerged in the sea. This step is a key part of the process for making marine wine, an ancient Greek delicacy said to be favored by Julius Caesar.
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Because of the small amount of salt in the grapes, marine wine doesn’t need sulfites, stabilizers, or preservatives.
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Hand-painted frescoes adorn the barrel-aging cellar at Mastroberardino winery, which re-planted grape varieties grown in ancient Pompeii.
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In the mountainous district of Irpinia, the Feudi di San Gregorio winery preserves native grapes and leads wine safaris on its 988 acres of vineyards.
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At Fattoria Fibbiano, southwest of Florence, winemakers used a cryo-maceration technique to create the first 100 percent Colombana wine, made from a grape variety historically used only in blending.
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A vineyard cascades down the slopes of Elba, an Italian island where viticulturists are reviving the millennia-old technique of making marine wine, part of a growing trend.
https://www.nationalgeographic.com/magazine/article/5-ways-you-can-keep-the-planet-clean-this-summer
2022-06-20T15:42:30.609000+00:00
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https://www.nationalgeographic.com/magazine/article/helping-an-animal-vital-to-brazils-rainforest-survive
2022-06-20T15:41:02.457000+00:00
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The lowland tapir (Tapirus terrestris), also known as the South American tapir, can grow up to six feet long and weigh 550 pounds. It is assessed as vulnerable by the International Union for Conservation of Species.
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The National Geographic Society has long funded the work of Patricia Medici, who began studying lowland tapirs in 1996.
https://www.nationalgeographic.com/photo-of-the-day/media-spotlight/volcano-etna-italy-eruption
2021-07-06T12:41:06.920000+00:00
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Vibrant Volcano
https://www.nationalgeographic.com/science/article/were-neanderthals-making-art-europe-unicorn-cave
2022-01-26T17:09:29.308000+00:00
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Located in an area of rolling hills halfway between Frankfurt and Berlin, Germany’s Unicorn Cave was a popular destination for medieval healers and alchemists, who believed the mysterious bones of long-extinct animals could cure everything from impotence to the plague.
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Archaeozoologist Gabriele Russo recreates the scene in which he discovered the Unicorn Cave bone. Researchers assumed it was left behind by Ice-Age modern humans, and were stunned when the bone was firmly dated to a time when only Neanderthals were present at the site. Archaeozoologists like Russo specialize in studying animal remains from archaeological sites.
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The Unicorn Cave excavations are focusing around the original entrance to the cave, which collapsed around 10,000 years ago. While some archaeologists work inside the cave, digging out, others, shown here, excavate into the cave entrance from the outside.
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A team of archaeologists led by researchers at the University of Göttingen have found evidence of human and Neanderthal activity in Unicorn Cave dating from 47,000 to possibly more than 100,000 years ago.
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A front view of the Unicorn Cave bone shows the deep incisions, carved in the shape of a chevron, on its surface.
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A rear view of the artifact. It was fashioned from the second knuckle of Megaloceros giganteus, a giant deer that went extinct more than 7,000 years ago.
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An artist’s recreation of a Megaloceros giganteus hunt. These giant deer, which could stand seven feet at the shoulder and feature an antler span of some 12 feet, were rarely found north of the Alps.
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Archaeologist Raphael Hermann attempts to re-create the engraved Unicorn Cave bone to better understand how much effort it took to make. Using replica flint blades and cow bones, Hermann quickly realized that the bone needed to be boiled and dried several times in order to achieve cuts that were similar in depth and angle to the Unicorn Cave bone. “Cooked bones worked perfectly” Hermann says. “The more it cooked, the easier you can work with the bone.”
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Hermann cuts into a cow bone with a flint knife similar to what Neanderthals would have used. The cut bones were examined with a microscope and CT scanner and compared to those found on the artifact. After weeks of experimentation, researchers determined that each line on the Unicorn Cave bone took at least 10 minutes to carve, and broke or dulled one or two precious flint blades in the process. “A lot of process and thinking went into this,” says Hermann.
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An image of a unicorn is projected on the wall of Unicorn Cave for tourists. In a normal year, 30,000 visitors pass through its cool dolomite galleries.
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Archaeologists pass through the main gallery of Unicorn Cave on their way to the excavation site. Excavations continued in 2020 under carefully observed COVID-19 restrictions. The cave's stalagmites and stalactites were broken off hundreds of years ago by medieval people who believed they were unicorn horns.
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Archaeology students Denise Siemens, left, and Runa Bohle, right, work on carefully sieving and examining sediment excavated from in and around Unicorn Cave. Even the smallest animal bones or plant remains can provide critical evidence for reconstructing what life was like 50,000 years ago.
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Sediment samples are left to dry on the floor of the sieving station. Researchers will then carefully examine each sample, tweezing out tiny items of interest.
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Paleontologist Ralf Nielbock gives a tour of Unicorn Cave and its archaeology to visitors. Nielbock was instrumental in not only opening the cave to tourists in the 1980s, but also in starting archaeological investigations of the site. Today, he serves as the director of Unicorn Cave, which has also been the site of fashion shoots, television productions, and music videos.
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Paleontologist Ralf Nielbock looks up from the “skylight” entrance of Unicorn Cave, a collapsed feature that floods with sunlight in the summer months when the sun is at its highest point. The cave is part of Germany’s largest UNESCO Geopark, located in the lush Harz mountains.
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Researchers say this incised bone, carved by Neanderthals more than 50,000 years ago, is evidence that our extinct cousins could create ‘art’ in the modern human sense of the word—or, at the very least, exhibit creativity and symbolic expression.
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Unicorn Cave
A view looking down onto the outside dig face at Unicorn Cave, Harz Mountains, in Germany. This excavation lies directly above the underground dig and is only separated by a few metres. Before the mined entrance and the skylight entrance that collapsed in, it is believed that this was once the only way into cave. Then the sediment fill containing all the bones and archeological artifacts totally blocked it. Working in the site there is Gabriele Russo, who is a MSc student from the University of Tuebingen, Germany. Gabriele was the person who discovered the giant deer bone with the engravings, pictured here. We recreated the scene as if it was taken the moment he found the bone.
https://www.nationalgeographic.com/environment/article/heat-related-deaths-attributed-to-climate-change
2021-07-02T17:10:43.564000+00:00
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Portland, OR residents cool off in a city relief center during June's historic, deadly heat wave. Climate change almost certainly made the heat worse.
https://www.nationalgeographic.com/science/article/how-dangerous-is-the-new-delta-plus-variant--heres-what-we-know
2021-07-02T17:04:15.078000+00:00
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Workers wearing protective suits rest after burying a COVID-19 victim in Bandung, West Java province, Indonesia, June 15, 2021.
https://www.nationalgeographic.com/environment/article/miami-condo-collapse-highlights-urgent-need-to-adapt-to-rising-seas
2021-07-02T17:02:59.262000+00:00
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The partial collapse of a condominium in Miami is pointing up the fact that waterfront communities there need to urgently address sea level rise, which is quickly becoming a hazard.
https://www.nationalgeographic.com/photo-of-the-day/media-spotlight/water-slide-israel-tourism
2021-07-02T16:20:38.106000+00:00
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Water Ways
https://www.nationalgeographic.com/photo-of-the-day/media-spotlight/atlanta-wedding-parade-georgia
2021-07-02T16:19:44.030000+00:00
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Bridal March
https://www.nationalgeographic.com/photo-of-the-day/media-spotlight/badlands-park-south-dakota
2021-07-02T16:19:06.119000+00:00
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Beautiful Badlands
https://www.nationalgeographic.com/animals/article/sea-anemones-eat-ants-other-oddities
2021-07-07T18:23:59.915000+00:00
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Giant plumose anemone (Metridium giganteum or Metridium farcimen) is a large sea anemone.
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When researcher Christopher Wells discovered that these giant plumose anemones eat ants, he was surprised. “I was not expecting that at all.”
https://www.nationalgeographic.com/environment/article/the-hidden-toll-of-july-fourth-fireworks
2021-07-02T15:57:07.559000+00:00
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Fireworks over North Hollywood, California. The smoke and particles created by fireworks are especially problematic for vulnerable people, often in Black and Hispanic communities.
https://www.nationalgeographic.com/photo-of-the-day/media-spotlight/gettysburg-pennsylvania-civil-war
2021-07-02T13:22:03.258000+00:00
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Remembering Gettysburg
https://www.nationalgeographic.com/history/article/betsy-ross-likely-didnt-sew-the-first-us-flag
2021-07-01T18:27:56.302000+00:00
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The myth that Betsy Ross created the first American flag took off in the popular imagination and was enshrined in paintings like this Henry Mosler work, The Birth of the Flag, depicting Ross and her assistants sewing in the Philadelphia house where she may not have actually lived.
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The flag has long been central to Revolutionary War iconography. In his 1903 painting The Nation Makers, Howard Pyle depicted soldiers carrying a tattered American flag across a field during the Revolutionary War.
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Despite the uncertainty surrounding its origins, this early design of the American flag is known as the Betsy Ross flag. It has 13 red-and-white stripes with 13 five-pointed stars arranged in a circle to represent the colonies that fought for independence in the Revolutionary War.
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Although seamstress Betsy Ross is often credited as the maker of the first American flag, there’s no evidence that’s true. The myth was born during a wave of flag fervor that swept the nation nearly a hundred years after the Revolutionary War.
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2022-01-26T17:09:39.075000+00:00
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A spotted hyena cub licks its mother in Kenya's Masai Mara National Reserve.
See Baby Hyenas Up Close and Personal
Nov. 5, 2017 - These adorable hyenas were spotted in Kruger National Park, South Africa. Spotted hyenas live together in large groups called clans that may include up to 80 individuals. The clans are matriarchal. As adults, they can weigh up to 190 pounds. Female spotted hyenas are among nature’s most devoted mothers. With babies this cute, it would be hard to be a bad mother.
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https://www.nationalgeographic.com/magazine/article/a-war-photographer-looks-back-at-her-life-on-the-road
2022-06-20T15:44:12.157000+00:00
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Soldier Gashaw Jaffar guards a checkpoint at the Farmanday peshmerga base outside Slemani, Kurdistan, Iraq, in September 2003. This portrait was Taylor-Lind’s first submission to any photography contest, and it won first prize.
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A 1980s family photo: Anastasia Taylor-Lind heads toward her mother, Eleonore Lind, who’s taking the photograph as her father, Bethlehem Taylor, looks on. Horses Star and Blue wait to pull the wagon that was Taylor-Lind’s home.
https://www.nationalgeographic.com/magazine/article/in-landlocked-hungary-this-sea-is-all-some-tourists-need
2022-06-20T15:38:39.057000+00:00
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Lake Balaton is roughly 230 square miles in area. The hilly terrain surrounding the lake has created several distinct microclimates in the region.
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Paddleboaters explore the lake. UNESCO is considering designating part of Balaton’s north shore a World Heritage site; features include volcanic rock formations, Celtic stone sculptures, and historic castles.
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A swimmer with compatibly colored hair comes up for air. On the lake’s bottom lie remnants from the past century: several World War II–era planes and other wartime rubble.
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At the resort town of Balatonboglár, a beach guard surveys the lake. Peak travel season in the summer lasts from June until late August.
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Lake Balaton has an average depth of nearly 10 feet, but its south shore is much shallower, making it appealing to families with young children.
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A swimmer rests on grassy shoreline near the lake. The soil in the area is conducive to winemaking; vineyards around the lake have made the region a draw for wine-loving tourists.
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Blankets and a beach chair stake out these visitors’ chosen spot. Dozens of small resort towns dot the lake’s perimeter; many have carved out artificial beaches on the lakeshore, adding to the sealike ambience.
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A couple lounges on an inflatable raft in the lake, where the waters are typically calm.
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The Hungarian sky and a runaway inflatable raft are reflected in the lake’s surface.
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A boy dives into the shallow waters of Hungary’s Lake Balaton. The nearly 50-mile-long lake is the largest in central Europe and for decades has been a popular destination for summer vacationers.
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2021-07-01T12:39:45.521000+00:00
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Classic Kyoto
https://www.nationalgeographic.com/family/planet-possible-challenges/article/challenge-5-explore-the-sky-with-a-telescope
2022-02-28T21:07:34.340000+00:00
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https://www.nationalgeographic.com/science/article/what-wild-chimps-can-teach-humans-about-healthy-aging
2021-07-01T11:09:17.251000+00:00
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Scientists have been observing the wild chimps in the Kanyawara region of Kibale National Park since 1987, helping to advance our understanding of primate behavior and how that relates to modern humans.
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Unlike their counterparts held in captivity, chimps observed in sanctuaries or in the wild seem to age in healthier ways because they stay active throughout their lives.
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A chimpanzee named Yogi, seen here in October 2011, is among the roughly 60 wild animals studied as part of the Kibale Chimpanzee Project in Uganda.
https://www.nationalgeographic.com/history/article/canada-day-marks-country-birth-not-independence
2021-06-30T15:25:25.635000+00:00
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Canada Day is typically celebrated with ceremonies, fireworks, and flyover demonstrations by the country’s military aerobatics team. Although three-quarters of Canadians believe the holiday marks Canada’s independence, it actually honors the nation’s birth.
https://www.nationalgeographic.com/history/article/race-card-projecthear-their-stories
2021-06-30T14:43:07.502000+00:00
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Race Card Project–Hear Their Stories
More than half a million people shared their personal reflections on race with the Race Card Project. Listen to a few of these backstories.
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https://www.nationalgeographic.com/animals/article/how-fake-animal-rescue-videos-have-become-a-new-frontier-for-animal-abuse
2021-06-30T16:02:34.096000+00:00
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In one of hundreds of fake animal rescues posted on YouTube, a Burmese python coils around a gibbon’s body until a person “discovers” the pair and saves the primate.
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Image from a youtube video displaying a fake animal rescue
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Image from a youtube video displaying a fake animal rescue
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Eagles are one of the animals in fabricated rescue videos often portrayed as the attackers. The videos demonize carnivores that in the wild kill prey to survive.
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YouTube is rife with staged videos where animals attack each other, despite a policy banning abuse and exploitative animal content. Species like the Burmese python, pictured here in a studio shot, are often featured as predators, but sometimes as prey.
https://www.nationalgeographic.com/history/article/why-women-have-suffered-more-financially-during-the-pandemic
2021-07-01T18:03:07.500000+00:00
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A woman wearing a protective face mask walks past a mural by street artist Alex Martinez outside a shop which sells bags in Athens. More women work in industries, like retail, which are still reeling from pandemic-related shutdowns.
https://www.nationalgeographic.com/science/article/long-covid-afflicts-kids-too-heres-what-we-know-so-far
2021-06-30T14:05:37.939000+00:00
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A boy receives a free COVID-19 test at a St. John’s Well Child & Family Center mobile clinic set up outside Walker Temple AME Church in South Los Angeles, July 2020.
https://www.nationalgeographic.com/animals/article/florida-wildlife-corridor-legislation-unanimous-environmental-law
2021-06-30T16:25:49.785000+00:00
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A double-crested cormorant dries its wings while perched on a fallen palm in the Rainbow River, near Dunnellon, north of Tampa. The Florida wildlife corridor protects nearly 10 million acres of public land, including Rainbow River State Park.
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A manatee mother and calf explore a spring in Crystal River National Wildlife Refuge. Such springs provide warm refuges during winter. Conserving the corridor helps these endangered mammals by keeping springs and estuaries connected and clean.
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A fishing boat winds through mangroves in Everglades National Park. Conserving the corridor and the Everglades headwaters closer to Orlando, is essential for restoring the Everglades and preventing development from separating the region from the rest of Florida.
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A Florida panther walks among cypress knees during the dry season in Florida Panther National Wildlife Refuge. To survive, the endangered species must expand to the north, a process that has already started, but which depends on preserving private lands within the corridor.
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Members of the Seminole Tribe work cattle at Big Cypress Reservation. Florida’s five million acres of cattle rangelands make up much of the corridor and provide vital wildlife habitat. Many ranches are on waiting lists for conservation easements.
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Panthers are known to move through this citrus grove in south-central Florida, within the wildlife corridor. The Nature Conservancy paid for a conservation easement with the grove owner to ensure the property will never be developed—a win for panthers and agriculture
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The Aucilla River winds through forest and salt marsh on its way to the Gulf of Mexico. The Florida Wildlife Corridor connects with nearly 1,000 named rivers and streams, is vital for providing clean drinking water, and helps maintain healthy estuaries in the Gulf and Atlantic.
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Swallow-tailed kites roost on a ranch within Florida’s wildlife corridor, near Lake Okeechobee, before flying thousands of miles to South America. Such green spaces are important rest stops for birds undertaking transcontinental migrations.
From the Field: Florida Panthers
National Geographic Explorer Carlton Ward, Jr., has spent 10 years documenting the elusive Florida panther. Join him in the field as he sets up camera traps and shares his passion for protecting Florida's wildlife corridor.
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https://www.nationalgeographic.com/photo-of-the-day/media-spotlight/peru-beach-desert-climate
2021-06-30T13:14:23.992000+00:00
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Desert Beach
https://www.nationalgeographic.com/travel/article/see-the-world-like-a-landscape-painter
2021-06-30T17:22:59.196000+00:00
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Painters like Timothy Wilson find inspiration in outdoor scenes such as the rocky coast of Maine.
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Artist Tim Wilson paints both in his Maine studio (shown) and outside en plein air.
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Artist Tim Wilson paints on the Maine Coast as part of a yearlong project documenting the state’s wild places.
https://www.nationalgeographic.com/travel/slideshow/paid-content-experience-chiles-natural-playground
2021-08-02T15:37:09.120000+00:00
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Travel chile 2
https://www.nationalgeographic.com/environment/article/historic-drought-in-west-forcing-ranchers-to-take-painful-measures
2021-06-29T19:20:38.137000+00:00
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In Tomales, California, Rancher Jim Jensen uses a pump to pull water from a well. As the drought emergency continues in California, Marin County ranchers and farmers are beginning to see their wells and ponds dry up. Some ranchers are having water trucked in for their livestock.
https://www.nationalgeographic.com/animals/article/this-elephant-herd-isnt-where-it-belongs-the-big-city-outskirts
2022-01-26T17:09:52.361000+00:00
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The elephants, shown here walking through Yuxi in June, have captured the country's attention as they’ve destroyed crops, wandered through villages, and closed in on a major city.
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In this aerial photo taken on June 13, a herd of wild elephants naps outside Yuxi City, in southwest China. Over the past year, the herd of 15 has wandered 300 miles from their home in a nature reserve.
https://www.nationalgeographic.com/culture/article/rebel-baby-boom-was-a-sign-of-hope-now-it-represents-uncertainty
2022-01-26T17:10:05.240000+00:00
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Beatriz Seleny Serna, 32, wakes up from an afternoon nap with her four-year-old daughter Yei Alejandra Torres. After the peace deal, she and her partner tried to lived outside the reintegration camps, but they received death threats. After moving to the Anorí camp, the couple separated. Although men and women were mostly equal in the FARC, now Serna takes care of her daughter on her own. It is very hard for me now, she says. I was studying, and between taking care of my daughter and working on the productive projects and no childcare, I had to stop going to school.
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Diana María Meneses tends aloe vera at a communal plot that grows plants for a productive project manufacturing artisanal soaps and shampoo at the Anorí camp.
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Diana María Meneses (center), Beatriz Seleny Serna (right), and their colleague Cecilia make soap by melting glycerin and mixing in herbal essences. The project was created by a group of 25 former fighters with funds given to them as part of their demobilization. It provides employment to six women who work onsite at the Anorí camp.
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Women at the Anorí camp sew items for a manufacturing cooperative that makes backpacks and clothes inspired by what FARC rebels wore in the mountains.
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The name Esperanza Medina, 44, gave to her daughter—Desiree Paz, desire for peace—reflects her hope that she will grow up in a peaceful country. Medina joined the FARC when she was 14 and had her first child at 16. FARC commanders forced her to give up the baby for adoption; she underwent seven abortions through her 26 years as a fighter.
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Residents at the demobilization encampment in Pondores line up to collect a monthly ration of non-perishables provided by the Colombian government for every former FARC fighter. The monthly ration is for one person but now that we have relatives living with us or we have our own family, we have to make it last, said Rubielena Amaya, who lives with her husband, a former fighter, along with six relatives.
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Since the pandemic started, many social services have been placed on hold, including schooling. A group of residents at the Pondores camp hired Betsabe Molano, a private teacher, to continue their children's education.
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In Pondores, a poster of Víctor Julio Suárez Rojas (nom de guerre Jorge Briceño Suárez), a FARC leader who was killed in a government-led operation in 2010, hangs on a tree as a reminder of the past. Former rebels hope to build permanent homes in this area.
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Former members of the FARC and their families take part in a peaceful demonstration on May 28 in Medellin to protest the lack of implementation of the peace process. The country has been roiled by protests on a range of issues since April 28, when thousands of people took to the streets in dozens of cities to reject proposed tax changes.
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Oscar Mendoza was a corporal in the Colombian military but deserted after denouncing the killing of civilians. Eventually he joined up with the FARC. Accustomed to rural communal living, many former FARC fighters struggle in cities but Mendoza managed to start a restaurant in downtown Medellín. Now he's worried that the pandemic will force it to close.
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After the peace deal, Manuel de Jesus Avila moved to Medellín to be with his daughter, whom he had not seen for 22 years. He makes a living selling candy and cigarettes on the street. Here in Medellín, they are not killing us as much as in other areas, he says, but I'm still afraid.
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After targeted killings at the Ituango encampment, many ex-fighters and their families fled to a makeshift camp in Mutatá, Colombia. The government eventually built them houses—the red roofs seen in this aerial view—but the structures lack running water and become uninhabitable in the afternoon heat.
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The camp at Mutatá has become established enough to offer residents a place to play pool and have a beer with friends.
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Marinelly Hernandez lies in bed next to her son as she receives treatment for COVID-19 at the La Guajira reintegration camp. Over the past nine months, some 47 residents have been diagnosed with COVID. The lack of reliable healthcare has forced former rebels to seek traditional and homeopathic remedies to treat their symptoms.
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In a tent at the Mutatá camp, Rosa Elidia Gutiérrez Mazo spends time with her 10-month-old daughter, Isabella Taborda, while her mother, Doralina Mazo, shares a video call with another relative. Gutiérrez and her mother were separated for the eight years she spent with the FARC. I don't want to live away from my mother anymore, she says. We are now going to be one big family.
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Former members of the FARC clear a field for a sewage treatment tank at the Mutatá camp. The government has hired former fighters at encampments throughout Colombia to build houses and make repairs.
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Residents of the Mutatá encampment gather to vote on whether to fight the government's new reduced housing and benefits policies. In the encampment, they have more self-determination than they did as soldiers with the FARC.
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Many families at the Mutatá encampment have not moved into their allotted government-built house due to the lack of running water and proper sewage.
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At the Anorí demobilization camp in Colombia, Luz Arelis Duque, 32, looks after her eight-year-old daughter María Isabel and her three-year-old neighbor Camila. María Isabel was born before the 2016 peace deal; Duque, a fighter with the Revolutionary Armed Forces in Colombia (FARC), was forced to give her up. Once the peace agreement was signed, she and her husband were reunited with their daughter. The first words she told us were, 'You are not my parents,' says Duque. It took several months for her to warm up to us. We were not prepared for that.
https://www.nationalgeographic.com/travel/article/visibility-mixes-with-vulnerability-for-some-transgender-travelers
2021-06-29T14:32:19.666000+00:00
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San Francisco has long been a haven for the LGBTQ community. In 2017, the city transformed six blocks of its Tenderloin District into the Transgender Cultural District—the world’s first legally recognized transgender district.
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A TSA officer checks a traveler’s ID at Orlando International Airport. Airport security checkpoints can be a stressful experience for transgender travelers.
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Picking LGBTQ-friendly neighborhoods to visit, such as Christopher Street in New York’s Greenwich Village, can take some of the risk out of travel for the LGBTQ community.
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Marchers walk with a giant rainbow flag in London. Travel can present a different set of hurdles for transgender people.
https://www.nationalgeographic.com/environment/article/heat-dome-deadly-hot-weather-descends-on-pacific-northwest
2021-06-29T14:21:56.937000+00:00
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A family tries to beat the heat in Los Angeles, California.
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2021-06-29T13:13:49.667000+00:00
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Party Paper
https://www.nationalgeographic.com/history/article/sinuous-stone-age-snake-sculpture-unearthed-in-finland
2022-01-26T17:09:30.996000+00:00
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Archaeologists excavate the wetland site of Järvensuo I in southwestern Finland, where well-preserved organic artifacts from the Neolithic have been found. The site is at risk due to drainage.
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Photographing the snake shortly after discovery. The rare find gave us all shivers, archaeologist and lead researcher Satu Kavisto recalls.
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This 4,000-year-old snake was fashioned from branch of wood in what is now southwest Finland. Researchers speculate it may represent a grass snake or European viper.
https://www.nationalgeographic.com/environment/article/these-farmers-show-that-agriculture-in-the-amazon-doesnt-have-to-be-destructive
2022-04-15T18:33:33.248000+00:00
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Geandre Berkembrock harvests açaí using a peconha, which is a strap placed on the feet to help him climb the palm tree. “I learned that by myself. I tried again and again until I got it. I think I was around 10 years old. I have never fallen from a palm tree. I have climbed as much as 30 trees in only one day.”
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In 1984, Sérgio Roberto Lopes (60) got a loan from his sister and bought 78 hectares of land in Nova Califórnia.
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Arnoldo Berkembrock (66) and Arlete Maria Berkembrock (68) came to the Nova Califórnia area in 1986, and bought land in 1989. Says Arlette: “We like to live in the countryside … . We can feed from the fruits from our own backyard being sure that we are having access to healthier food.”
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Dielison Furtunato De Souza (24) at this home in RECA. The son of a cattle rancher, he chose farming over ranching.
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Jersiane Berkembrock (24) has always helped her family and accompanied her parents to RECA’s meetings. “Being involved in nature is a huge satisfaction, she says.
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Cupuaçu is processed in a factory. The majority of the pulp produced is sold to other companies that make juice and other derived products. Oil from the plant’s seeds is used as the base for cosmetic products such as lipsticks and moisturizers.
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Alice Berger and her nephew João Pedro Chaves are producers of cupuaçu, açaí, rambutan, Brazil nut, and andiroba.
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A farmer holds a cupuaçu fruit, her farm's main product.
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Brazil nuts are very common in the Nova Califórnia region, and many RECA associates collect Brazil nuts to sell. The nut that we eat are seeds in a coconut-like husk.
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Rambutan fruit, also known as hairy lychee, is not one of the products commercialized by RECA. The producers themselves sell it directly to big markets in Porto Velho and Rio Branco, and also small local markets.
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The açaí produces purple fruit, widely used to produce food and drinks. Açaí berries carry antioxidants, which help protect human cells from damage.
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A composting system that deals with solid residues from RECA’s farms produces organic fertilizer that’s plowed back into the forest and sold commercially. Here, Furtunato inspects the compost.
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Karen Ana Júlia Lemos Araujo (20) is Geandre Berkembrock's partner and helps in the production of cupuaçu.
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Hamilton Condack (51), is director and trading manager of RECA. He grows cupuaçu, açaí, and andiroba. He also raises local fruit such as graviola, pineapples, and tangerines.
Drive through agroforestry
Driving through agroforestry land in Brazil's Amazon rainforest region
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https://www.nationalgeographic.com/history/article/residential-school-survivors-reflect-on-brutal-legacy-that-could-have-been-me
2021-07-01T16:19:56.014000+00:00
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The village of Lebret, Saskatchewan was home to the Qu'Appelle Indian Residential School, one of many sites of severe physical, sexual, and psychological abuse inflicted on young First Nations, Metis, and Inuit children who were taken from their communities during the residential school era. While most of the original school structures have been demolished, one building remains visible on the far right side of the photo.
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A statue showing Father Joseph Hugonard, founder of the Qu'Appelle Indian Residential School, was taken down on June 21, 2021. The statue depicts two young Indigenous children wearing Indigenous clothing and sporting long hair—two things that would have been forbidden while they were students at Qu'Appelle.
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Marcel Ellery attended Marieval Indian Residential School from 1987 to 1990. He ran away 27 times, scaling fences like the one in his portrait, but he was always caught. “When I got out, I turned to booze because of the abuse, he says. Ending up in jail was easy, because I’d already been there.”
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Selina Brittain attended the Marieval Indian Residential School from 1954 to 1962. “I believe that they thought they were teaching us, she says. I believe that they thought that assimilating us into their way of life would help us. But they changed us into something we weren’t—and there was nothing wrong with our way of life before. That’s what they still don’t understand.” The background of her photo shows the Qu'appelle River, which bordered the school.
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The Gordon Indian Residential School was the last federally run school to close, in 1996. A memorial marks where the school once stood in Punnichy, Saskatchewan.
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Most original residential school buildings have been destroyed but the Muskowekwan Indian Residential School still stands, although it is largely in ruins.
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The cemetery is all that remains of the Regina Indian Industrial School.
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Janet Dufour attended the Marieval Indian Residential School from 1952 to 1960. “A priest molested me because I was ugly and shy and I think he picked the most vulnerable of us, she says. To this day, I don’t like fall because it brings back that ugly feeling, that terror of having to go back.” Railroad tracks lie in the background of her portrait because she dreamed of running away to the city.
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A circle of Dene elders say a prayer together in Beauval, Saskatchewan, on the morning of one of the final Truth and Reconciliation Commission listening sessions in Canada. Survivors gathered for several days to share stories and testimonies of their time as students at Beauval Indian Residential School, which operated from 1895 to 1983.
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Deedee Lerat attended the Marieval Indian Residential School in Saskatchewan, Canada, where 751 unmarked graves were recently discovered. I would be too scared to even ask to pee, she says, because you didn't want to draw attention to yourself. The grass in her portrait is from where the school once stood.
https://www.nationalgeographic.com/science/article/why-vaccinations-for-several-diseases-are-falling-sharply-in-brazil
2021-06-28T16:49:18.071000+00:00
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Kids rest on a boat off Paqueta island in Rio de Janeiro's Guanabara Bay during a mass vaccination event, part of an effort to inoculate people over 18 years old against the coronavirus that causes COVID-19.
https://www.nationalgeographic.com/history/article/multiple-bullet-wounds-found-in-black-man-remains-search-for-tulsa-massacre-victims
2021-06-28T20:01:56.541000+00:00
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Researchers documenting findings at Oaklawn Cemetery's mass graves investigation site.
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Phoebe Stubblefield seen in the C.A. Pound Human Identification Laboratory at the University of Florida in February. Dr. Stubblefield is part of the team of researchers and scientists excavating human remains at Oaklawn Cemetery in an effort to identify the Black victims of the 1921 Tulsa Race Massacre.
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Artifact recovered during the mass graves investigation at Oaklawn Cemetery on June 22, 2021.
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View of mass graves investigation site at Oaklawn Cemetery in Tulsa, OK on Friday, June 25, 2021.
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Forensic anthropologist, Phoebe Stubblefield, with members of the Tulsa Mass Graves Public Oversight Committee, transport human remains through Oaklawn Cemetery on June 18, 2021.
https://www.nationalgeographic.com/travel/article/unlocking-mystery-of-japans-perfect-washi-paper
2022-01-26T17:09:23.983000+00:00
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Master calligrapher Tadashi Kawamata writes on washi, traditional paper that is still handmade in some parts of Japan.
https://www.nationalgeographic.com/photo-of-the-day/media-spotlight/brown-bear-yellowstone-park
2021-06-28T13:23:54.487000+00:00
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Bear Necessities
https://www.nationalgeographic.com/family/article/is-your-family-pet-bad-for-the-environment-it-depends
2022-01-24T18:25:12.086000+00:00
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Some studies show that guinea pigs and other small animals might be the most environmentally sustainable pets.
https://www.nationalgeographic.com/science/article/what-the-pentagon-report-says-about-ufos
2021-06-25T23:02:06.892000+00:00
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Owner Judy Messoline built the UFO Watchtower in 2000 near Hooper, Colorado, after people in the area claimed to have seen many unexplained events.
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Mysterious flying object over water
A U.S Navy pilot's strange encounter with an unidentified flying object.
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Unidentified Aerial Phenomenon
A U.S. Navy Pilot's encounter with a strange flying object.
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https://www.nationalgeographic.com/animals/article/rescue-dogs-behavior-animals
2021-06-25T21:16:21.621000+00:00
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The greater Swiss mountain dog, photographed here in Choussy, France, is sometimes trained to do search-and-rescue work.
https://www.nationalgeographic.com/photo-of-the-day/media-spotlight/synchronized-swimming-aging-women
2021-06-25T19:30:39.448000+00:00
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Synchronized Seniors
https://www.nationalgeographic.com/photo-of-the-day/media-spotlight/gabon-canoe-kongou-falls
2021-06-25T19:29:56.852000+00:00
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Kongou Falls
https://www.nationalgeographic.com/science/article/dragon-man-fossil-skull-may-represent-new-human-species-in-china
2022-01-26T17:09:37.932000+00:00
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The Harbin cranium, with its combination of both ancient and modern features, joins a growing number of fossil finds across Asia that don’t neatly fit on the branches of the human family tree.
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The Dragon Man lived more than 146,000 years ago in a chilly region in northeastern China, as depicted in this reconstruction.
https://www.nationalgeographic.com/history/article/inside-the-first-pride-parade-a-raucous-protest-for-gay-liberation-lgbtq
2022-01-28T19:10:39.443000+00:00
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On June 28, 1970, the first Pride parade—or gay liberation march, as it was called at the time—took place in New York City. The response surprised even the parade's organizers, including Foster Gunnison and Craig Rodwell (pictured here). Now, Pride is celebrated around the world.
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2021-06-25T13:12:58.197000+00:00
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Armenian Celebration
https://www.nationalgeographic.com/travel/article/in-charleston-black-history-is-being-told-through-a-new-lens
2022-01-26T17:09:21.727000+00:00
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Enslaved West Africans would uses sweetgrass baskets like these to separate the husk from the grain in rice fields. In 2006, the baskets were named South Carolina’s state handicraft.
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During a June 2017 remembrance ceremony, the Gullah community on Sullivan’s Island, South Carolina, dance to honor their deceased relatives.
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Built in 1859 as a slave auction gallery, the Old Slave Mart now serves as a museum, recounting Charleston‘s role in the domestic slave trade.
https://www.nationalgeographic.com/science/article/puzzling-skull-discovery-may-point-previously-unknown-human-ancestor
2022-01-26T17:09:30.483000+00:00
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Researchers used the scant skull remains from Nesher Ramla to create a a virtual reconstruction a hominin who lived relatively recently, but has very archaic features, including a lack of chin.
https://www.nationalgeographic.com/animals/article/researchers-share-more-than-a-million-hours-of-rainforest-recordings
2022-01-26T17:10:24.965000+00:00
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Fifty microphones captured a cacophony of sounds from Congo’s Nouabalé-Ndoki National Park, including gorilla chest beats, chimpanzee pant-hoots, elephant rumbles—and poachers’ weapons.
https://www.nationalgeographic.com/science/article/heart-problems-after-vaccinations-are-very-rareand-often-resolve-quickly
2021-06-24T19:42:46.381000+00:00
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A healthcare places a Band-aid on a patient after administering a dose of the Pfizer-BioNTech Covid-19 vaccine at Boston Medical Center in Massachusetts, on June 17, 2021. The first pandemic surge flooded Boston Medical Center with coronavirus patients: 229 at last springs peak, filling nearly two-thirds of its beds. This week, the COVID-19 count hit zero.
https://www.nationalgeographic.com/animals/article/northern-spotted-owl-populations-at-all-time-low
2021-06-23T19:40:10.965000+00:00
https://i.natgeofe.com/n/b2351e47-d0d9-4c50-a5f8-9864397eea4e/nganimals-2106-northern-spotted-owl-decline_primary_ai2html_fallback.jpg
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A northern spotted owl in Siskiyou National Forest, which straddles Oregon and California.
https://www.nationalgeographic.com/photo-of-the-day/media-spotlight/spain-costa-brava-beach
2021-06-24T13:11:03.735000+00:00
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Costa Brava
https://www.nationalgeographic.com/history/history-magazine/article/chariot-racing-rome-empire-love-hate
2021-06-24T13:08:14.648000+00:00
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The winner of a race holds up a palm leaf, the symbol of victory. Bronze figure, first or second century A.D. Louvre, Paris
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Sultan Ahmet Square in Istanbul, Turkey, is the former site of the famed Hippodrome of Constantine, where chariots once furiously raced.
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Emperors Theodosius II And Valentinian III each hold a mappa, dropped to start the races. Fifth-century coin
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Chariot racing at the foot of Palatine Hill has a long tradition in Rome. Although no structural elements remain today, the great U-shaped circus dominated the city. Over a third of a mile long and nearly 500 feet wide, it was the Roman Empire’s biggest venue at the end of the fourth century A.D.
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“Rape of the Sabine Women” by Pietro Da Cortona, 1630. Capitoline Museums, Rome
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A ROMAN THRONE
The Romans’ passion for chariot racing is evidenced by this chariot-shaped marble latrine from the Baths of Caracalla in Rome. Third century A.D. British Museum, London
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Fourth-century consul Junius Bassus is shown in a chariot in a panel made using the opus sectile technique, in which separately cut pieces of stone are inlaid. National Roman Museum, Rome
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A mosaic from Thugga (present-day Dougga, Tunisia) celebrates the winning charioteer Eros and his horses, whose names are recorded. Fourth century A.D. National Bardo Museum, Tunis
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A charioteer dressed in blue holds the victory palm; to his right is the hortator, and in front of the horses the sparsor holds an amphora of water. Third century A.D. National Archaeological Museum, Madrid
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This aerial view of the site of the Circus Maximus at the foot of Palatine Hill in Rome shows that the spina that once divided the track is still clearly visible. Virtually no trace of the structure remains today.
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A pantomimus waves the cloth of the green team on a mosaic from Barcelona. First century B.C. Archaeological Museum of Catalonia, Barcelona
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Two judges (top left) preside over a dramatic race in Rome’s Circus Maximus, depicted in this third- century A.D. relief. The winner (top right) brandishes his whip in victory. Trinci Palace, Foligno
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STAFF AT THE CIRCUS
In 1806 a mosaic dating to the second century A.D. was found in Lyon, France. It depicts a chariot race that took place in the city, known then as Lugdunum.
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The gatekeeper and officiant
Above the starting boxes appears the person who is responsible for opening the gates at the beginning of each race. The organizer of the games, known as the editor, sits in the loggia and will drop a handkerchief (mappa), to start the races.
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The presenters and cheerleader
Standing on the spina, two presenters hold the victory trophies, the palm and laurel wreaths, which will be presented to the winners. A jubilator on horseback rides alongside the racers to encourage them. They wear the color of their faction.
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The wreckage
Spectacular crashes that happened during chariot races were called naufragia (“shipwrecks” in Latin).
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The waterboy
A sparsor carries a basin to sprinkle water on the horses and charioteers to cool them as they pass.
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Recovered from the Hippodrome of Constantine, a surviving base of one of several sixth-century statues celebrates the city’s superstar charioteer, Porphyrius.
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Among the cache of papyri found at the Egyptian city of Oxyrhynchus—about 100 miles southwest of present-day Cairo—is a program of the planned entertainment for a day at the races. Written in Greek, the document dates to the sixth century, when racing was beginning to decline across the empire. Only six races were scheduled (larger hippodromes could schedule up to 24), and other entertainments were planned for in between events. The program is written in two hands, suggesting a process in which local officers approved the running order. The day’s events, as recorded on the papyrus: 1st chariot race; Procession; Singing rope-dancers; 2nd chariot race; The singing rope-dancers; 3rd chariot race; 4th chariot race; Mimes; 5th chariot race; Troupe of athletes; 6th chariot race. Farewell.
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Ceramic and crystal glasses were found at the site of the circus at Camulodunum (Colchester), the only known hippodrome in Britain. First century A.D. British Museum, London
https://i.natgeofe.com/n/6f062606-4fa3-4d78-b2f6-dd10fde8d1a4/alexander-von-wagner-race.jpg
The thrill and danger of a chariot race in Rome’s Circus Maximus is captured here in Alexander von Wagner’s 1882 painting. Manchester Art Gallery, England
https://www.nationalgeographic.com/family/planet-possible-challenges/article/challenge-4-explore-a-flower-patch-with-a-bee-hotel
2022-02-28T21:05:47.177000+00:00
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https://i.natgeofe.com/n/5ba6cdcf-dfe3-4356-8df3-af8694754a78/PPCH4_OG_Flower-Patch_FAMILY_0621.jpg
https://www.nationalgeographic.com/science/article/humans-are-creating-hot-spots-where-bats-could-transmit-zoonotic-diseases
2021-06-25T15:14:55.916000+00:00
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Portrait of a Chinese horseshoe bat which is named for its horseshoe-shaped nose-leaves. The species ranges from northern India to southern China and are often found in caves or cave-like locations where they feed mostly on small moths.
https://www.nationalgeographic.com/animals/article/us-concerns-grow-over-oil-exploration-in-the-okavango-region
2021-06-24T15:41:37.654000+00:00
https://i.natgeofe.com/n/e67fb5a8-b2db-49ae-a4b0-e7b6e99c2b84/nganimals-2010-Okavango-fracking-map_primary_ai2html_fallback.jpg
https://i.natgeofe.com/n/5beaaf9c-71d2-4e3b-a328-792522e8b357/AP_21081282494461.jpg
In January, ReconAfrica drilled its first test well in Namibia. The company has a license to explore for oil and gas in a 13,200-square-mile area in Namibia and Botswana that encompasses part of the watershed of the famed Okavango Delta.
https://www.nationalgeographic.com/science/article/astronomers-identify-the-stars-where-any-aliens-would-have-a-view-of-earth
2021-06-23T15:59:26.764000+00:00
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Kepler-186f was the first rocky exoplanet to be found within the habitable zone—the region around a host star where the temperature is right for a world to have liquid water on its surface. If intelligent life exists on planets like Kepler-186f, perhaps it has discovered our own planet using similar means.
Exoplanets 101
Exoplanets challenge the notion that we are alone in the universe. Learn what types of exoplanets exist, the methods scientists employ to find them, and how many worlds might exist in the Milky Way Galaxy.
https://link.theplatform.com/s/ngs/media/guid/2423130747/00000169-3116-dc18-a17b-355f81280000
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https://www.nationalgeographic.com/travel/article/how-to-get-off-the-crowded-path-in-the-national-park-system
2022-01-26T17:09:50.650000+00:00
https://i.natgeofe.com/n/02de4b3a-0f82-41dc-9fec-16c8debe5977/Trav%20NP%20GettyImages-584850596.jpg
Black Canyon of the Gunnison National Park in Colorado offers dramatic scenery and an alternative to popular Rocky Mountain National Park, two hours away.
https://i.natgeofe.com/n/045657cc-04d3-4f34-a974-38a3e5a33d0b/Trav%20NP%20G2C13X.jpg
Cumulonimbus clouds loom over the rocky shore of Kabetogama Lake in Minnesota’s Voyageurs National Park.
https://i.natgeofe.com/n/837d3b21-00a1-450f-a523-a309a0d5a4d9/Trav%20NP%20KKCMHG.jpg
The sun rises over a campsite in Cape Lookout National Seashore, North Carolina.
https://i.natgeofe.com/n/de80277a-426f-46b4-adb2-115aa375ad09/Trav%20NP%20KPK5AP.jpg
A tour boat cruises past Johns Hopkins Glacier in Alaska’s Glacier Bay National Park and Preserve.
https://www.nationalgeographic.com/animals/article/spiders-eat-snakes-around-the-world-surprising-study-reveals
2021-06-23T13:31:28.605000+00:00
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A black widow preys on a snake in New River Gorge National Park in West Virginia.
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A large wandering spider preys on a snake in Peru's Amazon rainforest.
Spider Kills Snake
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https://www.nationalgeographic.com/photo-of-the-day/media-spotlight/bosnia-war-widows-women
2021-06-23T13:21:57.892000+00:00
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War Widows
https://www.nationalgeographic.com/science/article/why-pregnant-women-in-india-still-are-not-eligible-for-covid-19-vaccines
2021-06-22T20:40:53.755000+00:00
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A health worker wearing protective gear collects a swab sample of a pregnant woman at a free COVID-19 coronavirus testing center at Medchal Malkajgiri district on the outskirts of Hyderabad on August 24, 2020.
https://www.nationalgeographic.com/environment/article/why-tiny-forests-are-popping-up-in-big-cities
2021-06-23T12:42:52.283000+00:00
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This Tiny Forest was planted in Zaandam, The Netherlands, in 2015.
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The same Tiny Forest in 2017
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A year-round study of Tiny Forests in 2017 revealed an increase in their biodiversity.
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Tiny Forests like this one in the Netherlands, are becoming more common around the world.
https://www.nationalgeographic.com/travel/article/is-this-danish-city-the-fairy-tale-capital-of-the-world
2022-01-26T17:09:23.725000+00:00
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Visitors take in a performance at the open-air theater on the grounds of Hans Christian Andersen’s childhood home, on Aug. 19, 2015.
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Cobbled streets line Odense, a Viking-era city steeped in mythology and fairy-tale charm.
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Egeskov Castle, located on Fyn Island, not far from Odense, was one of Hans Christian Andersen’s favorite places to visit.
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Tourists take pictures of “The Little Mermaid” statue in Copenhagen, on May 14, 2015. The figurine on Langelinie promenade is one of the most famous tributes to Andersen’s works.
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A mural of writer Hans Christian Andersen, by artist Don John, decorates a house on Bangs Boder Street in Odense, Denmark.
https://www.nationalgeographic.com/culture/article/mexicos-cowboys-struggle-to-maintain-traditional-lifestyle
2022-07-27T18:51:13.008000+00:00
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Eleonary Nary Arce Aguilar lights a fire while driving his animals around in search of feed near Rancho Mesa San Esteban in the Sierra de San Francisco of Baja California Sur, México.
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Eleonary “Nary” Arce Aguilar drives his mules home to Rancho Mesa San Esteban in the Sierra de San Francisco of Baja California Sur, México.
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Ignacio “Nacho” Arce Arce rides along El Camino Real near Rancho Aguajito de las Mujeres in Santa Martha Valley, Baja California Sur, México.
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Eleonary “Nary” Arce Aguilar ropes his pet deer at Rancho Mesa San Esteban in the Sierra de San Francisco of Baja California Sur, México.
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Petroglyphs are scattered around Eleonary “Nary” Arce Aguilar's ranch in the Sierra de San Francisco of Baja California Sur, México. Before COVID-19, he would lead visitors on pack mule trips to the more prominent sites in the region, but the impact of the pandemic has brought tourism to this remote pocket of Baja to a standstill.
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A collection of arrowheads made by Indigenous peoples from another era found at Rancho Mesa San Esteban in the Sierra de San Francisco of Baja California Sur, México.
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Erlinda Linda Arce Arce works in the kitchen at Rancho Mesa San Esteban in the Sierra de San Francisco of Baja California Sur, Mexico on April 30, 2021.
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Eleonary Nary Arce Aguilar gets a hug from his daughter, Guadalupe, at Rancho Mesa San Esteban in the Sierra de San Francisco of Baja California Sur, México.
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Ricardo Arce Aguilar uses the bark of the palo blanco tree to tan leather at Rancho El Datilito in the Sierra de San Francisco of Baja California Sur, México.
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Ignacio “Nacho” Arce Arce adjusts his riding boots and leather at Rancho Aguajito de la Tia Adelaida in Santa Martha Valley, Baja California Sur, México.
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Eleonary “Nary” Arce Aguilar drives his mules home to Rancho Mesa San Esteban in the Sierra de San Francisco of Baja California Sur, México.
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Saddles are among the many works with leather made by Baja cowboys, or vaqueros, in Baja California Sur, México.
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Rancho Los Naranjos in Baja California Sur, Mexico on April 28, 2021.
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Eleonary Arce Aguilar's daughter, Guadalupe, prepares to milk cows at Rancho Mesa San Esteban in the Sierra de San Francisco of Baja California Sur, México.
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A starving calf tries to eat burning palm fronds from a fire at Rancho Mesa de San Esteban in the Sierra de San Francisco of Baja California Sur, México.
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Trudi Angell, a Loreto-based guide and backcountry outfitter, says Baja’s cowboys, or vaqueros, are struggling with the encroachment of the modern world, changing economics and the intensified effects of climate change. “All these forces seem to be piling up against” the vaqueros, she says. “We can say that it’s a dying culture.”
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Eleonary “Nary” Arce Aguilar and his daughter, Guadalupe, take a break after hard work at Rancho Mesa San Esteban in the Sierra de San Francisco of Baja California Sur, México.
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Eleonary “Nary” Arce Aguilar and his daughter, Guadalupe, harvest a barrel cactus to feed their mules and horses at Rancho Mesa San Esteban in the Sierra de San Francisco of Baja California Sur, México.“If we buy cow feed, we won’t eat—it’s that simple,” says José María “Chema” Arce Aguilar, a lifelong rancher and trail guide.
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When not helping out with real chores, Ricardo Arce Aguilar’s children play with cowboy-themed toys at Rancho El Datilito in the Sierra de San Francisco, Baja California Sur, México.
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Eleonary Nary Arce Aguilar drives his mules home to Rancho Mesa San Esteban in the Sierra de San Francisco of Baja California Sur, México.
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Eleonary “Nary” Arce Aguilar drives his mules home to Rancho Mesa San Esteban in the Sierra de San Francisco of Baja California Sur, México.
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Eleonari Arce Aguilar drives his mules home to Rancho Mesa San Esteban in the Sierra de San Francisco of Baja California Sur, Mexico on April 28, 2021.
https://www.nationalgeographic.com/photo-of-the-day/media-spotlight/hornbill-indonesia-rainforest-sulawesi
2021-06-22T13:23:46.290000+00:00
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Red-Knobbed Hornbill
https://www.nationalgeographic.com/animals/article/whales-dont-spray-water-from-their-blowholes-and-other-myths-debunked
2021-06-21T19:13:06.873000+00:00
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Morning sun catches the spout of a Type B killer whale in the Gerlache Strait, Antarctica.
Blue Whales 101
Blue whales are the largest animals to have ever existed. Learn why they're larger than any land animal and why they were hunted for years, making them endangered.
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Why a whale's world is a world of sound
In 1970, a groundbreaking album introduced the songs of humpback whales to the world. It piqued public curiosity about the social lives of these ocean giants and spurred a global movement to research and conserve their populations. Several decades later, scientists continue to study the intricate vocalizations of not just humpbacks but the nearly 90 cetacean species inhabiting the world's oceans. They're decoding the wide array of sounds that the species use to communicate and finding cultural differences between populations.Hear from National Geographic Explorers Natalie Sinclair, a humpback whale researcher, and sperm whale expert Shane Gero as they discuss how studying these two species' unique sounds are changing the way we understand whales.
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https://www.nationalgeographic.com/travel/article/lake-bagging-is-trending-what-is-it-how-can-you-do-it-safely
2022-01-26T17:09:24.958000+00:00
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Lake bagging is becoming increasingly popular, with groups establishing rules for “bagging,” or swimming in lakes. Some even ban the use of wetsuits, regardless of frigid water temperatures.
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Some lake bagging enthusiasts award extra points for hiking to remote lakes.
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The sun rises over Lake Colden, one of 3,000 lakes in New York’s Adirondacks.
https://www.nationalgeographic.com/photo-of-the-day/media-spotlight/yoga-beach-new-jersey
2021-06-21T13:19:09.242000+00:00
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Beach Yoga
https://www.nationalgeographic.com/family/article/so-your-kid-wants-to-be-a-vegetarian
2022-02-25T22:31:14.183000+00:00
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https://www.nationalgeographic.com/science/article/see-how-rural-india-has-been-overrun-by-the-pandemics-second-wave
2021-06-23T20:32:09.599000+00:00
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The body of an 18-year-old woman cocooned in plastic wrap lies in the bed of a pickup truck at the MAHAN Trust hospital to be transported home. Married for only six months, she died of COVID-19 complications minutes after being brought to the intensive care unit. She was later cremated on the family's farmland.
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Shyamkali Baiga and her four children, who have all tested positive for COVID-19, have their temperatures checked by community health worker Savni Baiga in Bahaud in Mungeli, Chhattisgarh. They are all under home quarantine. Half of this village of 400 refuses to get tested or monitored, even though there are 16 active cases.
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Doctors perform a procedure on a COVID-19-positive two-month-old to drain the pus forming in his knees at Jan Sawasthya Sahyog's hospital.
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Ashik Parvez, 28, plays an Islamic prayer on his mobile phone for his father Nabi Khan, 50, who was critically ill in the intensive care unit at the Government Medical College Hospital.
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A COVID-19 testing camp at Primary Health Centre in Khudiya in Mungeli, Chhattisgarh, India. On this day, 12 of 19 samples taken in one batch tested positive in a Rapid Antigen Test. The more reliable and accurate RT PCR test is only available at a bigger hospital about 12 miles away.
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A technician takes a chest x-ray of a 47-year-old man in the COVID-19 ward at Jan Swasthya Sahyog's hospital in Ganiyari, Chhattisgarh, India.
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Medical staff tend to a woman who fainted as she watched a sample being taken from her husband’s nose to test for black fungus (mucormycosis), in the ICU of the Government Medical College Hospital in Ambikapur in Surguja, Chhattisgarh, India.
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Manohar Patil, 50, holds a sacrificial goat as his daughter and son-in-law offer prayers to it at an ashram run by Bhanlal Jawarkar, 70, right, in Dadida in the Melghat region of Amaravati in Maharashtra. The Mores claimed Jawarkar cured Jamuna More of oral cancer two years ago by prayers after doctors gave up on her. It’s an example of how blind faith practices can override modern medicine in some parts of India.
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Tendu leaves, used as a wrapper for a local smoking stick, are left to dry on the grounds of a school in Mendrapara in Bilaspur, Chhattisgarh. Foraged from central Indian forests in the summers, the leaves are a major source of income for families, who head into the forests before dawn to pick. Tarachand Yadav, a 30-year-old buyer at the site, mentioned that more leaves are being collected this year as families see the activity as a good escape from the fear of COVID-19 in the villages.
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Health worker Kalabai Maravi walks door-to-door monitoring and tracking rural villagers for COVID-19 symptoms in Bamhani, deep inside the core zone of the Achanakmar Tiger Reserve in Mungeli, Chhattisgarh, India. Frontline health workers like Maravi are critical in providing healthcare to those affected and controlling the virus’s further spread.
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Ashish Satav, left, checks on his 60-year-old patient, who tested positive for COVID-19 at MAHAN Trust's hospital. The plastic sheets are pulled over when Dr. Satav attends his patients to help prevent the only senior doctor handling COVID-19 cases from catching an infection.
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Family members of a critically ill 32-year-old man suspected of suffering from a fungal infection that affects COVID-19 patients, listen as a MAHAN Trust’s hospital doctor in Amaravati, Maharashtra, India, advises them to take him immediately to a hospital four hours away for better treatment. Locals believe that taking patients to a far-away hospital is a point of no return, and many would rather take their loved ones back home to die.
https://www.nationalgeographic.com/photo-of-the-day/media-spotlight/jordan-lawrence-arabia-portrait
2021-06-18T16:18:24.093000+00:00
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Generations in Jordan
https://www.nationalgeographic.com/photo-of-the-day/media-spotlight/harlem-water-children-summer
2021-06-18T16:17:37.391000+00:00
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Harlem Heat
https://www.nationalgeographic.com/history/article/juneteenth-were-still-on-a-march-forward-for-absolute-equality
2022-01-25T22:54:27.677000+00:00
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Quincy Warren at a Juneteenth celebration in Port Allen, Louisiana. The event is held at a city park about a mile from the Mississippi River, and features a zydeco band and many family cookouts.
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A Juneteenth celebration at a park in Port Allen, Louisiana. Numerous families from the area set up all-day cookouts underneath the park’s trees, listening to Louisiana rap and zydeco music, grilling, and spending time together.
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Juneteenth parade, 1980
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Juneteenth Kickoff at Ashton Villa, 1980. From left to right: Galveston Police Captain Leon Lewis, Douglas W. Matthews, Mayor Gus Manuel, Texas State Representative Al Edwards (Houston), Tawana Shotwell (Miss Juneteenth), Texas State Representative E. Douglas McLeod (Galveston), and Reverend James Thomas.
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Car in parade featuring a sign saying “Happy Juneteenth—Our People Freed,” 1991.
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A new mural titled, “Absolute Equality,” is displayed in downtown Galveston, Texas. The mural by the artist Reginald C. Adams commemorates Juneteenth in honor of the June 19, 1865 date when Union Gen. Gordon Granger issued General Order Number 3, which ended the enslavement of Black people in Texas. Granger issued this order a full two-and-half years after the Emancipation Proclamation was signed—making enslaved people in Texas victims of a practice outlawed in the rest of the nation.
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The inside of the Juneteenth Legacy Project headquarters in downtown Galveston, Texas. The organization offers in-depth information on the significance of Juneteenth and currently has an exhibition of works by Texas artist Ted Ellis that reflects on centuries of the Black experience.
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Ja’Kacian Johnson rides in a ferry from Bolivar Peninsula, Texas to Galveston, Texas. His family drove down from Athens, Texas for vacation. Galveston’s economy relies heavily on tourism and the island’s beaches on the Gulf of Mexico.
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Samuel Collins, a historian and president of the Juneteenth Legacy Project, in Galveston, Texas. He has been instrumental in bringing attention to Juneteenth, a newly recognized federal holiday that commemorates an order issued on June 19, 1865 that ended the enslavement of Black people in Texas.
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Dedrick Stewart and Spancina “Sweet Pea” Pea dance during a Juneteenth celebration in Port Allen, Louisiana.
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Visitors enjoy a Juneteenth celebration at a park in Port Allen, Louisiana. The newly recognized federal holiday commemorates an order issued on June 19th, 1865 that ended the enslavement of Black people in Texas.
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David O’Neal, a Central graduate, stands outside the building that served as a school for Black students. He has been a pillar of the community for decades as a historian and educator of Juneteenth and Galveston’s Black history. He believes knowledge of Black history was lost once Central shut its doors.
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Diane Henderson stands outside Reedy Chapel in Galveston, Texas, one of the first Black churches in Texas. Her family has been a member of the church for generations. The chapel sits near downtown Galveston, where Gen. Gordon Granger issued an order on June 19, 1865 that ended the enslavement of Black people in Texas. Henderson says the event “is
part of American history that needs to be brought out and not just something that Black people mention to their children or know about.”
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Isaac Fanuiel IV stands outside Ashton Villa in Galveston, Texas. Fanuiel has worked extensively to spread awareness of Juneteenth across the country. “Those that are here in Galveston County, we can really draw back to that energy,” Fanuiel says, “draw from that experience, from our true ancestors. And we’re charged to carry that on and share that information. That’s the charge that I personally feel, which is why when I found out that Juneteenth started here in Galveston, I literally sold my car to buy a camera to tell the story. It was that life-altering for me—I couldn’t understand how I didn’t know.”
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Galveston resident Isaac Fanuiel IV holds up a copy of his 2010 documentary about Juneteenth, which commemorates an end to the enslavement of Black people in Texas.
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This is what remains of Rosewood Cemetery, Galveston’s first burial ground for deceased Black residents. In the 1950s, the city began using sections of the cemetery to extend the city’s seawall. Today only a few of the graves are left holding the remains of people born prior to 1865.
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Juneteenth is now a federal holiday—placing June 19 at the same level of other important milestones of American history
https://www.nationalgeographic.com/animals/article/these-unappreciated-animal-dads-make-big-sacrifices-for-their-young
2021-06-18T12:54:10.003000+00:00
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A male African giant bullfrog makes a mating call in Central Kalahari Game Reserve, Botswana.
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The crested porcupine (above, an animal in Italy) can weigh up to 60 pounds, making it one of the world's largest rodents.
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A red fox kit kisses its father in Yellowstone National Park, Montana.
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A male tomato clownfish tends to his eggs in the Philippines.
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An Adélie penguin parent feeds its chicks. The parents take turns sitting on their eggs to keep them warm and protected.
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A wandering albatross couple on South Georgia Island. The birds can live up to 50 years.
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A male silverback and a young gorilla feed on bamboo shoots in Mount Gahinga National Park, Uganda.
Adélie Penguins
Antarctic penguins flock to the shores for mating season.
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https://www.nationalgeographic.com/photo-of-the-day/media-spotlight/shark-sardine-south-africa
2021-06-18T12:50:34.917000+00:00
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Sardine Supper
https://www.nationalgeographic.com/culture/article/indigenous-fathers-take-lessons-from-their-own-experience-to-create-healthy-lifestyles-for-their-children
2021-06-19T20:50:59.640000+00:00
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Josué Rivas (Mexica and Otomi) sits for a self-portrait with his son Tonatiuh, 5. Rivas is a visual storyteller and father of two. He lost his own dad Arturo Rivas Gonzales to COVID-19 in February and has been documenting a journey that explores the joys and challenges of fatherhood.
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Manny Lieras brushes his daughter's hair in their Oakland, California, home before starting their school day. Lieras homeschools his children and spends most of the day with them. He believes in teaching by doing and embedding Indigenous culture in their education. Lieras and his daughters practice PowWow dancing and drum singing at their home.
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Sisters Joni Marshall-Lieras, 8, and Lynn Marshall-Lieras, 6, play with paint samples at a hardware store. Their father Manny Lieras encourages curiosity and real-life experiences as a vehicle for education.
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The Lierases paint a canoe they made with their inter-tribal community. Manny Lieras also works with Indigenous youth in his community to bring them summer programs that are inclusive and safe.
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Anthony Thosh Collins (Onk-Akimel O'odham/Wa-zha-zhi/Haudenosaunee) embraces his daughter Alo, 3, near their home in Salt River, Arizona. Collins nurtures his children and teaches them about their culture in order to build their resilience self love.
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Anthony Thosh Collins prepares the soil for seeding while Alo plays nearby. Collins engages in physical activity and promotes a healthy lifestyle for his family and community. In this field, which he shares with his brother, he plants O'odham corn, squash, and melons.
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Anthony Thosh Collins practices archery with his daughter Alo in Salt River, Arizona. Collins grew up going hunting with his father and often brings his daughter to observe and learn how to track wild game.
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Joshuaa Allison-Burbank (Diné/Acoma Pueblo) and his children Kateri, 5, and Kalen, 10, sit by the Rio Grande River in Albuquerque, New Mexico. Allison-Burbank's background in public health influences his parenting style. He aims to honor his children by treating them with respect and using culture-specific education such as reading books by Indigenous authors and building a relationship with the land. Diné is how members of the Navajo Nation refer to themselves.
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Joshuaa Allison-Burbank and his children, Kateri and Kalen, walk near the Rio Grande river. They live in the traditional homelands of their ancestors and continue to pray and honor the land. Acoma Pueblo peoples believe that if they don't make offerings the population and planet will get sick. In Acoma Pueblo culture it is important to show the children to make offerings so they can remember their connection to the Earth.
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Joshuaa Allison-Burbank (Diné/Acoma Pueblo) and his daughter Kateri prepare to grind white corn in Albuquerque, NM. Allison-Burbank preserves his Diné and Acoma Pueblo traditions so his children can continue practicing them. The cornmeal is used for offerings to acknowledge Mother Earth and are usually put down near bodies of water.
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Kaleb Allison-Burbank gets his hair bundled and wrapped in a traditional tsiiyéél or Diné bun by his father. The process of braiding is an opportunity to connect with his son and set intentions for their relationship.
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Daniel Santollo (P'urhépecha/Mexica) plays with his son Tahiel, 3, in a field in Beaverton, Oregon. Santollo is an artist and encourages his children to use creativity as a vehicle to express themselves.
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The Santollos gather chickens. Although Daniel Santollo grew up with a distant father, his goal is to give his time and attention to his own family by doing activities that nourish their creativity and well- being.
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Daniel Santollo watches his children Tahiel, 3, and Dalia, 9, play on a slide near their home. Santollo’s parenting style includes art and play, along with outdoor activities and community building.
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Anthony Thosh Collins (Onk-Akimel O'odham/Wa-zha-zhi/Haudenosaunee) holds 6-month-old Westyn with his family at their home. Collins and his wife Chelsey Luger (Turtle Mountain Chippewa and Standing Rock Sioux) co-founded Well For Culture, a movement to reclaim and revitalize Indigenous health and wellness.
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Manny Lieras (Navajo and Comanche) and his daughters play in the grass at the Martin Luther King Jr. Regional Shoreline park in Oakland, California. Lieras grew up with a difficult relationship with his father, he hopes to be a better role model for his daughters and protect them.
https://www.nationalgeographic.com/travel/article/across-the-border-this-mexican-community-also-celebrates-juneteenth
2021-06-25T13:03:54.745000+00:00
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A young girl dons on the traditional attire—polka-dot dress, apron, and handkerchief—worn by Mascogos women during Juneteenth celebrations in Nacimiento.
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From left to right: Jose, Aton, and Sebastian, members of the horseback parade, arrive in Nacimiento’s nogalera (a park surrounded by walnut trees) as part of Día de Los Negros.
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Josue, who is of Mascogo descent, honors the traditions of his community for Juneteenth, which now a federal holiday in the U.S.
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Jennie Hidalgo was crowned the Queen of the Jineteada (the town’s pageant) for Nacimiento’s 2018 Juneteenth celebration.
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Gustavo wears the traditional dress for men during Juneteenth.
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Jennifer celebrates Juneteenth with her community. After the parade of horseback riders arrives into town, Mascogo descendants gather under shade trees to barbecue and boil ears of corn over wood fires.
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Joseph stands with his horse’s whip. Currently, around 70 families live in Nacimiento and are dedicated to farming and cattle and goat ranching.
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Adan Salazar, a member of the cabalgata (a parade of horseback riders), travels 20 miles from the neighboring town of Múzquiz to celebrate Juneteenth in 2018 in Nacimiento, the generational home of the Black Seminoles who escaped the threat of slavery in the United States.
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2021-06-17T19:18:11.074000+00:00
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A Chinese pygmy dormouse at the Moscow Zoo. These animals can effectively echolocate, making extremely high-pitched squeaks and listening to the echoes to get a sense of their surroundings.
https://www.nationalgeographic.com/science/article/fossils-of-rhino-taller-than-a-giraffe-found-in-china
2021-06-17T15:16:51.453000+00:00
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Some 26.5 million years ago, a newfound giant rhino species roamed the northeastern Tibetan Plateau. Based on its skull anatomy, the rhino’s discoverers think it had a short, prehensile trunk like a modern tapir.
https://www.nationalgeographic.com/animals/article/primitive-coelacanth-fish-lives-to-a-hundred
2021-06-18T21:19:45.352000+00:00
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A coelacanth swims in South Africa's Sodwana Bay. Long thought extinct, the animal was rediscovered in 1938.
Ghostly Deep-Sea Fish Discovered
August 3, 2017 - Deep in the pacific ocean, scientists may have discovered a ghostly new species of snailfish. Snailfish are the deepest dwelling vertebrates on Earth. Some live over 5 miles below the surface. This one was observed at a depth of 1.5 miles, in the Pacific Remote Islands Marine National Monument. It’s possible this is the first time it’s ever been observed by humans.Click here to read Strange Deep Sea Fish Likely Filmed for First Time.
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2021-06-17T14:59:25.101000+00:00
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Moving Desert
https://www.nationalgeographic.com/environment/article/how-these-1930s-maps-left-some-neighborhoods-with-fewer-trees
2021-06-17T13:58:31.314000+00:00
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How these 1930s maps left some neighborhoods with fewer trees
More than 50 years after redlining was banned by the Fair Housing Act of 1968, its lingering effects leave many low-income and often communities of color with fewer trees to keep their neighborhoods cool.
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2022-02-28T21:09:42.538000+00:00
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https://www.nationalgeographic.com/magazine/article/the-world-is-getting-hotter-we-must-adapt-to-it-equitably
2022-06-20T15:46:09.491000+00:00
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As Elliot Ross took photographs in Los Angeles, people using mass transit told him that the system’s shelters provide too little shade and that waiting passengers can become dangerously overheated, even in winter. Verdant areas tend to be affluent ones in the city: Nearly 20 percent of the trees are in five census blocks—where one percent of the population resides.
https://www.nationalgeographic.com/magazine/article/los-angeles-confronts-its-shady-divide-feature
2022-06-20T17:29:22.202000+00:00
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The National Geographic Society, committed to illuminating and protecting the wonder of our world, has funded Explorer Elliot Ross’s photographic work around the climate resilience of Indigenous communities in Alaska.
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Los Angeles’s car-centric design makes it seem as if the city is meant to be seen from an air- conditioned vehicle. Without much shade, pedestrians such as these at Vermont Avenue and Eighth Street, just west of downtown, often bake in the sun.
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At the northern end of Vermont Avenue in Los Feliz, Moreton Bay fig trees arch over a grassy median where people lounge on hot days. The trees, planted around 1913 and carefully tended since, are on the Los Angeles list of historic monuments.
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Most shade in L.A. is in communities such as Rolling Hills, where people can afford to care for the trees.
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In low-income, largely minority areas such as Hawthorne, lack of public investment means fewer trees.
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A lone tree grows on a lot in Vernon, an industrial area near downtown L.A. where surfaces can be more than 15 degrees Fahrenheit hotter than in leafy neighborhoods. Only a hundred or so people live in this sun-blasted place, but some 50,000 come here to work.
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Many L.A. residents, particularly in Latino neighborhoods, have mastered the art of homemade shade solutions, says urban planner James Rojas. The defining aesthetic is rasquachismo, a Chicano term for resourceful, cheerful cobbling together of whatever is around to create something vibrant and functional. Houses in the region often lack central air-conditioning or good ventilation, so access to comfortable outdoor spaces is essential.
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Many L.A. residents, particularly in Latino neighborhoods, have mastered the art of homemade shade solutions, says urban planner James Rojas. The defining aesthetic is rasquachismo, a Chicano term for resourceful, cheerful cobbling together of whatever is around to create something vibrant and functional. Houses in the region often lack central air-conditioning or good ventilation, so access to comfortable outdoor spaces is essential.
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Many L.A. residents, particularly in Latino neighborhoods, have mastered the art of homemade shade solutions, says urban planner James Rojas. The defining aesthetic is rasquachismo, a Chicano term for resourceful, cheerful cobbling together of whatever is around to create something vibrant and functional. Houses in the region often lack central air-conditioning or good ventilation, so access to comfortable outdoor spaces is essential.
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Many L.A. residents, particularly in Latino neighborhoods, have mastered the art of homemade shade solutions, says urban planner James Rojas. The defining aesthetic is rasquachismo, a Chicano term for resourceful, cheerful cobbling together of whatever is around to create something vibrant and functional. Houses in the region often lack central air-conditioning or good ventilation, so access to comfortable outdoor spaces is essential.
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Many L.A. residents, particularly in Latino neighborhoods, have mastered the art of homemade shade solutions, says urban planner James Rojas. The defining aesthetic is rasquachismo, a Chicano term for resourceful, cheerful cobbling together of whatever is around to create something vibrant and functional. Houses in the region often lack central air-conditioning or good ventilation, so access to comfortable outdoor spaces is essential.
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Many L.A. residents, particularly in Latino neighborhoods, have mastered the art of homemade shade solutions, says urban planner James Rojas. The defining aesthetic is rasquachismo, a Chicano term for resourceful, cheerful cobbling together of whatever is around to create something vibrant and functional. Houses in the region often lack central air-conditioning or good ventilation, so access to comfortable outdoor spaces is essential
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Many L.A. residents, particularly in Latino neighborhoods, have mastered the art of homemade shade solutions, says urban planner James Rojas. The defining aesthetic is rasquachismo, a Chicano term for resourceful, cheerful cobbling together of whatever is around to create something vibrant and functional. Houses in the region often lack central air-conditioning or good ventilation, so access to comfort- able outdoor spaces is essential.
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Many L.A. residents, particularly in Latino neighborhoods, have mastered the art of homemade shade solutions, says urban planner James Rojas. The defining aesthetic is rasquachismo, a Chicano term for resourceful, cheerful cobbling together of whatever is around to create something vibrant and functional. Houses in the region often lack central air-conditioning or good ventilation, so access to comfort- able outdoor spaces is essential.
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Many L.A. residents, particularly in Latino neighborhoods, have mastered the art of homemade shade solutions, says urban planner James Rojas. The defining aesthetic is rasquachismo, a Chicano term for resourceful, cheerful cobbling together of whatever is around to create something vibrant and functional. Houses in the region often lack central air-conditioning or good ventilation, so access to comfort- able outdoor spaces is essential
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Ladale Hayes plants a pink trumpet tree in Watts, part of an L.A. campaign to plant 90,000 trees by the end of 2021—and many more after that. Working for North East Trees, a nonprofit, Hayes leads a team of young adults, most of whom are planting in the neighborhoods where they live. The trees will require years of care before their shade provides relief.
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L.A.’s year-round sunshine has generally been considered a blessing. But it can make a long wait for a bus uncomfortable.
How these 1930s maps left some neighborhoods with fewer trees
More than 50 years after redlining was banned by the Fair Housing Act of 1968, its lingering effects leave many low-income and often communities of color with fewer trees to keep their neighborhoods cool.
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https://www.nationalgeographic.com/magazine/article/too-hot-to-live-millions-worldwide-will-face-unbearable-temperatures-feature
2022-06-20T15:45:09.927000+00:00
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Heat-India-man-cycling-air-conditioners
Air conditioners festoon the facades of apartment buildings in the Indian capital. In May temperatures routinely exceed 40°C, or 104°F. Less than 10 percent of Indian households have air-conditioning, but the market is booming.
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Heat-Paris-people-bathe-fountain
The Trocadéro fountain offers relief during a record-smashing 2019 heat wave. A disastrous predecessor in 2003 had triggered reforms, such as a requirement for cooling in nursing homes. They paid off: The 2019 death toll in France was 90 percent lower.
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Heat-Paris-mistriger
After another record heat wave in 2019, the public transit agency experimented with misters on the Parc de St.-Cloud tram platform. As the tiny droplets of filtered water evaporate, they cool the air enough to refresh passengers.
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Heat-Paris-bosky-glade
Designed in 2011 as a place of respite, this bosky glade in the courtyard of the French Ministry of Culture in Paris has become a model for engineers and ecologists working to develop small forests throughout the city, as a way of cooling it.
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Heat-Saudi-Hajj
COVID-19 restrictions thinned the crowds circling in the Great Mosque in July 2020. Normally the annual hajj draws millions of pilgrims, many of them elderly, for five days of outdoor rituals. When the hajj falls in summer, they’ll be at increasing risk of heatstroke, climate scientists project.
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Heat-Abu-Dhabi-museum
Echoing the open lattices of Middle Eastern moucharaby screens, a fretted dome shades the Louvre Abu Dhabi museum. Beneath it, evaporation from the Persian Gulf cools the air, while stone floors and walls retain the nighttime chill.
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Heat-Arizona-biometeorological-robot
In downtown Tempe, Arizona, the deepest, most protective shade comes from buildings, not trees. Arizona State University researcher Ariane Middel and her colleagues discovered that by roaming the streets with MaRTy, a “biometeorological robot” that records temperature, solar radiation, wind speed, and humidity.
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Heat-novel-polymer-film
At Columbia University, a panel coated with a novel polymer film radiates heat through the atmosphere to outer space—and thus, as this infrared image shows, is dramatically cooler than its surroundings. Deployed on rooftops, such panels could reduce the need for air-conditioning. Research into “radiative cooling” is growing.
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Heat-tomato-picking
In Los Banos, in the San Joaquin Valley, tomato pickers start at 5 a.m. to avoid some of the day’s heat. State law requires growers to provide water, shade, and rest breaks, but pickers paid by the bucket may disregard such safeguards. Outdoor work will become increasingly dangerous in parts of the U.S.
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Heat-grape-plantation
On a 98°F day in Caruthers, California, near Fresno, Marina Acosta takes a break from picking grapes that will be dried for raisins. She and her husband work seven days a week, earning between $82 and $130 a day, depending on how much fruit they can pick.
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Heat-protection-laws
In Lodi, California, Doroteo Jiménez holds a photograph of his niece, 17-year-old Maria Isabel, near where she died in 2008 after laboring nine hours in 95°F with no access to water or shade. Her death spurred the state to improve and better enforce heat-protection laws.
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Heat-mother-child
In Karbala, Iraq, a mother with just a small fan struggles to soothe her child suffering from heat rash on a 109°F day. Only the wealthiest here can afford air conditioners and backup generators. Power outages are frequent, and when demand soars during heat waves, they can last all day and night.
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Heat-Pakistan-fainted-woman
Devotees making the arduous Hinglaj, a Hindu pilgrimage through the desert of western Pakistan, often faint in the extreme heat—104°F when this picture was taken. As body temperature rises, the heart works harder to pump blood to the skin. If it can’t keep up, blood pressure plummets. Risk is highest for the elderly.
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Hear-desert-nomand-camp
Nomads make camp in the Lut Desert, which isn’t as lifeless as it looks. Scientists hypothesize that the carcasses of migratory birds—which regularly fly off course and die here—provide sustenance for foxes, geckos, and locusts.
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Heat-Lut-Desert
A morning traveler surveys what might be Earth’s hottest place: the Lut Desert. In 2014 French researchers measured an unofficial 142°F in the shade here—a potential world record, if repeated with standard instruments. As Earth warms, more of it may become like the Lut— inhospitable to humans.
https://www.nationalgeographic.com/animals/article/an-obscure-lizard-reveals-zoos-may-indirectly-play-role-in-animal-trafficking
2022-06-27T18:11:26.740000+00:00
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Earless monitor lizards are rarely spotted in the wild. This pictured animal was seen in Malaysia.
https://www.nationalgeographic.com/environment/article/soils-from-antarctica-seem-to-contain-no-lifesomething-thats-never-been-found
2021-06-18T15:58:23.624000+00:00
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Two members of the soil research team head out to collect samples from one of the sites in the Shackleton Glacier region.
https://www.nationalgeographic.com/science/article/the-complex-situation-for-immunocompromised-people-and-covid-19-vaccines
2021-06-16T18:44:36.374000+00:00
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For those with compromised immune systems, receiving the COVID-19 vaccine is no guarantee they will be protected from the virus.
https://www.nationalgeographic.com/science/article/mystery-object-blotted-out-a-giant-star-for-200-days
2021-06-16T15:47:36.663000+00:00
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An artist’s impression shows the star VVV-WIT-08, which mysteriously disappeared during the first half of 2012.
https://www.nationalgeographic.com/photo-of-the-day/media-spotlight/waterfall-meditation-buddhist-japan
2021-06-16T13:17:58.762000+00:00
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Waterfall Meditations
https://www.nationalgeographic.com/travel/article/southern-europe-is-opening-to-us-travelers-heres-what-you-need-to-know
2021-06-16T12:55:56.337000+00:00
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People sit near the Almudena Cathedral during sunset in Madrid. Spain, one of Europe’s most popular tourist destinations, has reopened borders to vaccinated visitors, including Americans.
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In Paris, cafés are back open (with masked servers) after COVID-19 lockdowns, and visitors are returning.
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Tourists visit the Colosseum in Rome in June 2021. As Italy reopens to travelers from other countries, crowds at popular attractions are smaller than before the COVID-19 pandemic.
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A moped zips by a café on the Greek island of Patmos. Although the country had strict COVID-19 lockdowns, improving caseloads and vaccinations helped its government decide to reopen to tourism May 14, 2021.
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Tourists pass Rome’s Trevi Fountain in June 2021. COVID 19-tested flights and other recently instated protocols mean American travelers are returning to Italy for the first time since early 2020.
https://www.nationalgeographic.com/animals/article/most-whales-cant-really-swallow-a-human-heres-why
2021-06-15T21:10:17.917000+00:00
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A humpback whale feeds in the waters off Cape Cod. Known as bubblenet feeding, whales work together to disorient their prey by blowing bubbles in a spiral around a school of fish. As this ring of bubbles forces the fish to the surface, other humpbacks await to gulp them down.
https://www.nationalgeographic.com/environment/article/answers-to-these-botanical-mysteries-could-help-a-climate-stressed-world
2021-06-15T19:02:12.661000+00:00
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Cabbage
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Kohlrabi
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Lascinato Kale
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Romanesco
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Brussel Sprouts
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Ornamental Cabbage
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Cauliflower
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brocolli
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Brassica incana
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Brassica rapa originally came from mountains near the Afghanistan-Pakistan border thousands of years ago. Now, the plant is cultivated as turnips, bok choi, napa cabbage, and more.
https://www.nationalgeographic.com/science/article/us-surpasses-600000-deaths-due-to-covid-19
2021-06-16T20:06:57.381000+00:00
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Memorials hang from the Greenwood Cemetery’s front gate in New York City during an event organized to remember and celebrate the lives of those killed by COVID-19.
https://www.nationalgeographic.com/travel/article/how-trail-work-is-connecting-queer-youth-with-conservation
2021-06-18T16:19:15.637000+00:00
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Rainbow Crew members take a break near Lewis and Clark National Historical Park. As the nation’s first LGBTQ youth conservation corps, the organization is leading the charge in career development and environmental stewardship for queer teens.
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Wildflowers blanket the park around Mount Ranier during the summer.
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Members of the Rainbow Crew construct a stone retaining wall to provide trail stability at Mount Rainier National Park.
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A member of the Northwest Youth Corps’ Rainbow Crew works to pave a new trail at Mount Rainier National Park. With the rise of queer-owned outdoor adventure outfitters, LGBTQ youth are finding safe places to learn about wilderness exploration and environmental conservation.
https://www.nationalgeographic.com/animals/article/antidepressant-pollution-in-water-may-make-crayfish-bolder
2021-06-15T16:40:35.706000+00:00
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Spiny-cheek crayfish (Faxonius limosus) act bolder when exposed to moderate levels of an antidepressant that have been seen in the wild, potentially increasing their risk of being eaten.
https://www.nationalgeographic.com/science/article/new-organ-found-in-worlds-best-studied-plant
2021-06-15T15:08:25.885000+00:00
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Researchers at Pennsylvania State University discovered a plant body part called the cantil, a structure that extends horizontally from the stem of the thale cress plant. The part resembles a cantilever in structural engineering, holding up another stalk that leads to the flower. One large cantil and two smaller cantils can be seen in this image of thale cress.
https://www.nationalgeographic.com/photo-of-the-day/media-spotlight/windmills-washington-power-energy
2021-06-15T13:11:59.337000+00:00
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Whimsical Windmills
https://www.nationalgeographic.com/magazine/article/gold-is-a-toxic-lure-in-the-worlds-highest-settlement
2022-06-20T17:30:51.753000+00:00
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Mercury vapor from gold processing in La Rinconada contaminates the nearby glacier called Sleeping Beauty and, as a result, the water that residents use for drinking and cooking. Workers on the glacier adjust hoses that channel meltwater to the Peruvian mining settlement.
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Most people in La Rinconada live in shacks made of corrugated metal, without running water or heat to ward off the bitter cold. The settlement has grown considerably during the past several decades as gold prices have risen, but it lacks basic services.
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The National Geographic Society, committed to illuminating and protecting the wonder of our world, has funded photographer Cédric Gerbehaye’s work covering COVID-19 in Belgium.
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A miner known as a lamero carries, and is covered by, lama—muddy ore tailings left after mercury processing—that will be reprocessed with cyanide to extract more gold. Exposure to toxic fumes affects the nervous, digestive, and immune systems, damages the lungs, kidneys, and heart, and eventually can be fatal.
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Fidel Eliseo Mestas Mendoza, 42, works as a winchero, loading trucks with ore deep inside the San Antonio Mine. His cheek bulges with a ball of coca leaves, used by Andean people for millennia to ward off hunger and exhaustion.
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A driller at a gold mine in the Ritipata sector of town works in an unsafe environment with no air supply or security. Since mining activity in La Rinconada is mostly informal and illegal, some who have agreed to be photographed prefer not to give their name.
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José Fernando Quispe Quispe, 19, a miner and driller at the San Antonio Mine, reaches into a bag of coca leaves. Many young men come to La Rinconada in the hopes of carving out a future in a moribund economy.
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Women known as pallaqueras watch a truck dump waste rock from a mine, which they will comb for chunks containing traces of gold. Mostly wives of miners, single mothers, or widows, they are exposed to bitter weather and accidents and sometimes face sexual harassment from mine foremen who give them permission to work.
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A ball of amalgam forms after crushed ore is mixed with mercury in water and filtered through a handkerchief. A blowtorch blast will vaporize the mercury, leaving only gold behind.
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Two girls walk along the main street in La Rinconada in the shadow of Mount Ananea, which is honeycombed with mine shafts. The town has no hospital, garbage collection, or sewer system for its 30,000 to 50,000 residents.
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A woman rocks on a stone quimbalete to crush gold-bearing ore she scavenged that day. After several hours she will mix the resulting sand with mercury, which binds to the gold in an amalgam. When the amalgam is heated, the mercury vaporizes, leaving the gold behind.
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Two La Rinconada miners wait to see what a local gold buyer will pay for their labors. In lieu of regular wages, miners are allowed to work roughly an extra day or two a month and sell what they find in a system known as cachorreo.
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A pallaquera carries a bag filled with ore debris she sorted by hand from outside a mine in La Rinconada. Women are forbidden to enter the mines because of a local belief that their presence would anger a female spirit who guides male miners to gold deep within Mount Ananea.
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Antonio Yana Yana, 49, is a security chief at the San Antonio Mine in La Rinconada. After working all his life in the mine, in a high-altitude environment where oxygen is scarce, he suffers from lung problems.
https://www.nationalgeographic.com/animals/article/champions-of-wildlife-and-wild-places-win-prestigious-awards
2021-06-15T16:17:11.560000+00:00
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Wildlife conservationist Paula Kahumbu has been named Explorer of the Year by the National Geographic Society for her work to protect Kenya's elephants and other wildlife from poaching.
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Bernal Rodríguez-Herrera, a Costa Rica-based wildlife biologist specializing in the protection of bats, has won a National Geographic-Buffett Award for Leadership in Conservation.
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Abdullahi Hussein Ali, pictured holding a hirola antelope skull in southeastern Kenya, has also won a Buffett award for his work to save the critically endangered hirola from extinction.
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Marine ecologist Enric Sala has won the National Geographic Society's prestigious Hubbard Medal for his work to protect more than two million square miles of ocean.
https://www.nationalgeographic.com/subscribe/topic/benefits
2021-06-14T21:38:40.111000+00:00
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https://www.nationalgeographic.com/impact/article/paula-kahumbu-elephants-rights-champion
2022-06-23T23:57:24.584000+00:00
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Paula Kahumbu, National Geographic Explorer
https://www.nationalgeographic.com/travel/article/black-dads-share-best-travel-tips
2021-06-14T17:22:59.286000+00:00
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Popular YouTuber Glen Henry, of Beleaf in Fatherhood, and his family visit Yosemite National Park in March 2021. They are planning a month-long road trip this summer.
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Keith Sims and his son Jayson explore the Providence Canyon State Park visitor center, in Georgia. Sims and his family have been to 19 states over the last seven years.
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A father and his daughter watch the sun set over the Chesapeake Bay in Maryland. Black fathers are working against stereotypes to help their children experience the joy of travel.
https://www.nationalgeographic.com/magazine/article/looking-for-a-stairway-to-heaven-try-the-austrian-alps
2022-06-20T17:40:25.294000+00:00
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https://www.nationalgeographic.com/animals/article/lobster-in-the-gulf-of-maine
2021-06-14T17:34:21.897000+00:00
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American lobster with sea glass, mussel shell, and rock weed, Orr's Island, Maine
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Luck of the haul: Fishermen bait their traps, but lobsters going for a snack can also escape through the way they went in. The lobsters that are caught happen to be in the trap when it’s pulled.
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With an assist from daughter Jocelyne, 16, and son, Riley, 12, lobsterman Herman Coombs fishes out of Orr’s Island. Jocelyne, who has her own boat and commercial license, wants to keep the family tradition going. Maine’s lobster fishery is thriving today, but if waters warm too much, it could collapse.
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Lobsters fight over a burrow in the sandy seabed off the Isle of Shoals, in the Gulf of Maine. Some believe that overfishing of cod and other fish that prey on lobsters mean that the crustaceans don’t necessarily need to hide in rocky crevices and can move out into the open
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lobster in the gulf of Maine in a trap
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https://www.nationalgeographic.com/photo-of-the-day/media-spotlight/maryland-coal-american-flag
2021-06-14T13:29:05.402000+00:00
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Flag Day
https://www.nationalgeographic.com/family/article/why-meditation-is-great-for-kids-too
2021-06-11T21:32:39.870000+00:00
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https://www.nationalgeographic.com/science/article/how-the-new-alzheimers-drug-worksand-why-the-fda-is-under-fire-for-approving-it
2021-06-14T20:44:37.071000+00:00
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Study participant Henry Magendantz gets an infusion of the experimental Alzheimer's drug aducanumab at Butler Hospital in Providence, R. I., May 27, 2021.
https://www.nationalgeographic.com/photo-of-the-day/media-spotlight/lisbon-portugal-saint-anthony
2021-06-11T19:36:27.320000+00:00
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Paper Parade
https://www.nationalgeographic.com/photo-of-the-day/media-spotlight/child-labor-slavery-india
2021-06-11T19:35:43.381000+00:00
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Enslaved Children
https://www.nationalgeographic.com/history/article/public-swimming-pools-still-haunted-by-segregation-legacy
2022-01-26T17:09:21.354000+00:00
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The McCarren Pool in Brooklyn, New York, on August 27, 2018. Originally opened in 1936, the 54,450-square-foot public pool was one of 11 built across the city in the New Deal era. Although the pools were technically open to swimmers of all races, many were built in neighborhoods that ensured de facto segregation—and others were the sites of violent racial confrontations. Built in an Italian neighborhood, the McCarren Pool fell into disrepair in the 1970s and closed in 1984. It later reopened in 2012.
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On hot days like this one in 1955, Black swimmers thronged to Pool No. 2, a segregated pool at Druid Hill Park in Baltimore, Maryland. Built in 1921, it was the only pool that accommodated the city’s Black residents. It closed in 1956 following the desegregation of the city’s pools.
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In the 1920s, swimmers cool off at the Fairgrounds Pool in Saint Louis, Missouri. The enormous pool could hold tens of thousands of people—but was originally only open to whites. When the pool attempted to desegregate in 1949, white rioters beat the Black children who came to swim.
https://www.nationalgeographic.com/animals/article/deep-sea-shark-bonanza-seen-off-remote-island-chain
2021-06-11T16:30:50.021000+00:00
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Pacific angelshark. Santa Catalina Island, California
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Cape Cod, Massachusetts
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Aldabra Atoll, Seychelles
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Block Island, Rhode Island
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South Africa
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Galapagos Islands, Ecuador
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Deep-sea catshark. Galapagos Islands, Ecuador
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Specimen photographed in the Bishop Museum, Oahu, Hawaii
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Milne Bay, Papua New Guinea
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This frill shark was found by a fisherman in Numazu, Japan; a rare sighting considering these sharks live at a depth of 600 meters. The shark was then transported to the Awashima Marine Park.
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Guadalupe Island, Mexico
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South Neptune Islands, Australia
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Gansbaai, South Africa
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The Bahamas
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The Bahamas
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California
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Lighthouse Reef, Belize
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The Bahamas
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Jervis Bay, New South Wales, Australia
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Las Gemelas, Costa Rica
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Bonin Islands, Japan
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Hawaiian Islands
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Gardens of the Queen, Cuba
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South Africa
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The Bahamas
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Yucatan Peninsula, Mexico
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Western Australia
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Tasselled wobbegong shark. Friwinbonda Island, Raja Ampat, Indonesia
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Dimaniyat Islands, Oman
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A science submersible surfaces following a dive to research sixgill sharks on June 6, 2021.
Shark tagged from submarine for first time in history
For the past year, a team of researchers work in deep ocean waters to tag the near threatened shark species in their natural habitat.
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https://www.nationalgeographic.com/science/article/will-we-ever-know-the-real-death-toll-of-the-pandemic
2021-06-11T16:16:32.028000+00:00
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A grave is prepared in New Delhi on April 23, 2021, for a man who died from COVID-19.
https://www.nationalgeographic.com/environment/article/life-on-the-amargosaa-desert-river-faced-with-drought
2022-01-28T19:39:20.775000+00:00
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The Amargosa River from above, with the town of Shoshone, California in the distance.
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Ash Meadows Amargosa pupfish, Cyprinodon nevadensis mionectes, at Ash Meadows National Wildlife Refuge.
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A lighted relief map at the Ash Meadows National Wildlife Refuge shows the path of the Amargosa River.
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Sophie Parker, a senior scientist with the Nature Conservancy in Los Angeles, on the bank of the Amargosa River. The Amargosa River system flows through the Mojave Desert, hosting plants and animals found nowhere else in the world.
https://www.nationalgeographic.com/travel/article/tik-tok-travel
2021-06-11T16:40:45.030000+00:00
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Two people record a TikTok video in New York City’s Times Square on March 29, 2021. Best known for viral dance videos, the social media platform’s content creators are increasingly posting advice-style videos on everything from books to travel.
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Davud Akhundzada bills himself as a TikTokker promoting cultural and adventure tourism “in unpopular destinations.”
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Akhundzada says he posts videos on the social media platform because it’s fun, not because he wants to become a social media influencer.
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Even dance TikToks can reveal interesting aspects of a place, such as Mexico City’s Olimpico Universitario Stadium.
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A traveler shoots a TikTok video amid purple verbena flowers in Anyue County, Ziyang City, in China‘s Sichuan province.
https://www.nationalgeographic.com/science/article/how-full-fda-approval-could-pave-the-way-for-covid-19-vaccine-mandates
2021-06-11T14:41:56.210000+00:00
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Nurses draw vaccine doses from a vial as Maryland residents receive their second dose of the Moderna coronavirus vaccine on March 25, 2021 in Bowie, Maryland.
https://www.nationalgeographic.com/photo-of-the-day/media-spotlight/dragon-boats-hong-kong
2021-06-11T13:21:44.024000+00:00
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Dragon Boats
https://www.nationalgeographic.com/photography/article/these-wild-gadgets-make-these-photographs-great
2021-06-12T16:52:31.866000+00:00
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https://www.nationalgeographic.com/culture/article/palestinians-endure-decades-old-occupation-freedom-we-want-to-live-in-freedom
2022-01-26T17:09:36.256000+00:00
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During a Palestinian protest outside a new Israeli checkpoint in Sheikh Jarrah, East Jerusalem, a woman seeks shelter behind a flowering bush when it appeared that the Israeli forces were going to lunge forward or throw sound bombs.
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Palestinian protestors, relatives of residents, and members of the media were prohibited from entering the newly installed checkpoint barrier into the Sheikh Jarrah neighborhood. Orthodox Jews and Jewish settlers were allowed to freely move in and out.
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Omar Sharbati, right, sits with his cousin, Raneen Sharabati, and uncle in his grandfather’s home in the Old City of Jerusalem. “This house is only two bedrooms, two bathrooms, a kitchen, and a living room. It’s small. Around four live in the house, but we are always gathered here. We are around thirty one grandchildren,” says Sharbati.
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For more than thirty years, Sharbati’s family has fought for their right to remain in their home. They fear they will finally be evicted once Sharbati’s grandfather succumbs to his terminal cancer.
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The Haifa Court House looks over a site in Salib, Haifa, where more than a thousand Palestinians were arrested recently for protesting. Palestinians were evicted from the neighborhood in 1948, and now swaths of its original architecture are slated for development by Israeli real estate developers.
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Wadi al-Salib was once a bustling Palestinian neighborhood in Haifa. Since the establishment of the Jewish state in 1948, much of the original architecture has been demolished, reworked, and picked over by Israeli real estate developers.
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Rai Cafe is a popular spot among progressive Palestinians in Haifa.
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Basil Abu el-U'la, 15, sits beside his father and elder sister, who tends to an eye he lost at a recent protest. It was the second protest the teen had ever attended. “When I fell on the ground, I knew right away it was gone. I immediately knew that my eye was permanently taken from me. But my life goes on…with eyes or without them,” he says.
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Palestinian protesters gather in Sheikh Jarrah, East Jerusalem.
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Thaer Rajabi, 9, rests on the rooftop of his apartment building after playing in an inflatable pool in the Batan Hawa neighborhood in the Silwan valley. Ninety-seven households, including the Rajabi family, are at risk of being evicted by settler organizations. The forced removal would impact 453 people, including 223 children.
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Omar Katib stands in the pool his father built during the COVID-19 pandemic in Bilin village, part of the occupied Palestinian territory. Another boy who often played at the pool, Islam Wael Burnat, 15, died the day before during a protest at the edge of their village.
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Silwan Odeh, 9, entertains guests with traditional Palestinian folk dances and Tik-Tok reenactments in the al-Bustan neighborhood in East Jerusalem. “Silwan is a child who is a witness to all of this violence. We try to calm her, to say they are just settlers, don’t be afraid. But her own mother, a doctor, was arrested for being politically active on Facebook,” says her uncle, Qutaibah Odeh.
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Faiza Afifa, a graphic design student at Birzeit University, fled from Gaza at the age of 14 during an Israeli military offensive in 2014. She says she feels intense guilt that she is safe and can do nothing to help her friends.
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A new billboard is illuminated on the edge of an Israeli-controlled checkpoint in Ramallah, next to the Bet El settlement. The location is a common gathering spot for protests and advertisements for Palestinian businesses are often burned. Both the billboard and barriers are new additions after weeks of protests that got international attention last month.
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Omar Sharbati practices his fire show at the Damascus Gate of the Old City where Orthodox Jews and Palestinian passersby alike pause to watch. Sharbati and his friends say they prefer to venture out late at night when there are fewer police and they can better feel the city.
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A vendor sells corn in Deir Anan village, part of the occupied Palestinian territory. A picture of him and his best friend, who was killed by Israeli soldiers a couple years earlier, sits atop the cart.
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Artists, university students, and filmmakers gather at popular bar “The Station” in Ramallah to decompress after months of closures and stress from widespread street protests.
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The Rajoubi family’s living room overlooks the Batan Hawai neighborhood in Silwan, East Jerusalem. Nearly 100 Palestinian families in the area are at risk of being evicted.
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Thaer Rajabi, 9, wears a Palestinian flag as a cape while playing near an inflatable pool on the rooftop of an apartment building in the Batan Hawa neighborhood in Silwan. The children were disappointed not to visit the sea for their Eid vacation after Ramadan—there was too much fear for us to leave our house. So I brought them this pool,” explained Kayed al Rajabi, 34-year-old father of six sons and two daughters, whose family is facing possible eviction from Israeli settlers.
https://www.nationalgeographic.com/science/article/can-covid-19-lead-to-diabetes-heres-what-you-need-to-know
2021-06-10T21:00:28.677000+00:00
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Insulin is a hormone that keeps the blood glucose level in check.
https://www.nationalgeographic.com/history/history-magazine/article/queen-victoria-wedding-cake-300-pounds-new-trends-brides
2021-06-10T18:28:30.792000+00:00
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A bride cuts the cake in a British colorplate illustration from 1900.
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A gift box from Queen Victoria’s wedding.
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A slice of cake from Queen Victoria’s wedding.
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Queen Victoria’s wedding cake was topped by Britannia, a female personification of Great Britain, blessing the bride and groom. Colored lithograph
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https://www.nationalgeographic.com/animals/article/allegheny-wild-rat-is-mysteriously-disappearing
2021-06-10T16:32:39.387000+00:00
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The Allegheny woodrat, seen in western Maryland, lives in 13 states across the eastern U.S.
https://www.nationalgeographic.com/photo-of-the-day/media-spotlight/bee-eaters-birds-hungary
2021-06-10T13:17:04.530000+00:00
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Bee-Eaters
https://www.nationalgeographic.com/travel/article/in-michigan-making-the-outdoors-more-accessible-to-people-of-color
2022-01-26T17:09:32.090000+00:00
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Instructor Brian Rajdl teaches proper belaying technique to first-time ice climbers Sergio Cira-Reyes, Uriel Llanas Varsar, Alexis Hermiz, and Chris Jackson.
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Ericka “Kyd Kane” Thompson, poet laureate of Grand Rapids, Michigan, makes her inaugural ice climbing ascent.
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After a full day of ice climbing, the group boards “Big Red,” also known as the BOAT (Bus for Outdoor Access and Teaching).
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Michigan’s Upper Peninsula, home to the towering escarpments of Pictured Rocks National Lakeshore, draws outdoor adventurers year round.
https://www.nationalgeographic.com/magazine/article/my-shark-photo-took-over-the-internet-inspiring-countless-fakes-and-real-awareness
2022-06-20T17:41:53.150000+00:00
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A developed roll of slide film shows the moments leading up to the shark picture above.
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https://www.nationalgeographic.com/magazine/article/this-slug-chops-off-its-own-head-and-more-curiosities
2022-06-20T17:39:44.571000+00:00
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Off the New Zealand coast, deep-sea scientists have documented three species of sharks that glow in the dark, producing light using specialized cells in their skin.
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Scientists say more research is needed to explain the recent discovery that two species of sea slugs can rip off their heads and regenerate new bodies.
https://www.nationalgeographic.com/magazine/article/how-wildlife-conservation-in-northern-kenya-survived-the-pandemic-feature
2022-06-20T17:33:45.234000+00:00
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The sun burns off the morning mist from the valleys of Samburu County. The beauty of Kenya’s north draws tourists, and the region is home to pastoralists, their livestock, and wild animals. They frequently compete for space, water, and pasture.
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When Long’uro (at left) got stuck in a well, a hyena chewed his trunk to a stump. At the community-run Reteti Elephant Sanctuary in Namunyak Conservancy, local staff care for him and other orphaned calves. Long’uro has survived against the odds, but it’s unknown whether he’ll ever be able to return to the wild.
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In Sera Conservancy, ranger Kalteo Lemarash helps reintroduce orphaned young elephants to their family herds. These calves have been hand-reared for up to four years at Reteti Elephant Sanctuary, a few hours away, before their release back into the wild. GPS collars will help researchers monitor their integration.
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Nurse Madina Kalo hands a newborn boy to his mother, Hadija Galma, at a clinic NRT built with European funds in Biliqo. “You have to start catering for the health of the people before you can start talking about conservation,” Kalo says.
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Following a Samburu initiation ceremony that marks the start of adulthood, a young elder, Sikitau Lenkees, dresses new warrior Lobulu Lekilemo with the beads of his clan. New warriors will spend up to 15 years herding cattle, sheep, and goats. Pastoralism in northern Kenya is under pressure from climate change and development. To support traditional livelihoods and create new opportunities, NRT promotes sustainable grazing and holds livestock markets, while also offering small-business loans, vocational training, and jobs.
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Herders and cattle awake with the sunrise in Namunyak. Most NRT conservancies set aside some land exclusively for wildlife, and the rest is managed by grazing plans to improve rangelands. Directives on when and where cattle can graze, however, can become contentious, especially during drought, when good pasture is scarce.
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Donning beads and ocher makeup, Samburu warriors in Namunyak Conservancy prepare for their graduation celebration. After more than a decade as warriors, they’re becoming young elders, which makes them eligible for marriage.
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A trapped elephant struggles in thick mud in Nannapa Conservancy. Passing herders alerted the conservancy manager to his plight, and veterinarians and rangers launched a rescue. Using a tractor, towropes, and their hands, they freed the exhausted animal.
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A Kenya Wildlife Service ranger carries the dried skin of a lion that died of natural causes to storage. The service will lend it out for cultural ceremonies, such as initiations into adulthood, allowing traditions to continue without the need to kill more lions. Still, as some wildlife numbers have rebounded in conservancies and human populations have grown, conflict between the two is increasing.
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A distressed serval, caught in a snare set for antelope, has been shot with a tranquilizer dart by a Kenya Wildlife Service veterinarian. The vet freed the sedated cat, but a closer examination revealed the severity of its injuries, exacerbated by its frantic attempts to escape. With its arm almost torn off, the cat had to be euthanized.
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A helicopter with the nonprofit Mara Elephant Project, in the Masai Mara region of western Kenya, directs a bull elephant across a river and away from nearby communities. Elephants can destroy a season’s crops in a single night. As the human population grows, conflict with elephants does too.
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A Pokot village elder holds a Temminck’s ground pangolin found in the Pellow Conservancy. Pangolins today are a rare sight here and throughout Africa, because hunting for their meat and scales has caused their numbers to plummet. This pangolin and other recent sightings of the animals, however, provide hope that the conservancy still hosts a small population.
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Wildebeests trudge across the burnt grasslands of the Masai Mara Game Reserve, which relies on tourism to fund its operations and conservation work. When COVID-19 halted foreign travel, many local staff lost jobs, and some were forced into activities such as illegal hunting. Less reliant on tourism, NRT community conservancies have proved more resilient during the pandemic.
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At the Lewa Wildlife Conservancy, a team captures an endangered Grevy’s zebra to help form a new herd at Sera Community Conservancy. Sera was established by local Samburu communities with support from the Northern Rangelands Trust (NRT), an organization funded largely by Western nonprofits and governments to promote community-led conservation.
https://www.nationalgeographic.com/family/planet-possible-challenges/article/challenge-2-explore-the-shoreline-with-an-underwater-viewer
2022-02-28T21:10:38.466000+00:00
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From the Nat Geo Kids Get Outside Guide by Nancy Honovich and Julie Beer
https://www.nationalgeographic.com/environment/article/will-charging-electric-cars-ever-be-as-fast-as-pumping-gas
2021-10-17T16:06:45.322000+00:00
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Electric vehicles charge at a new station in Braintree, U.K., on Tuesday, Dec. 15, 2020. Researchers are closing in on an electric car battery that can recharge in 10 minutes or less.
https://www.nationalgeographic.com/history/article/zapping-the-boisterous-protest-tactic-that-ignited-early-lgbtq-activism
2021-06-09T19:07:26.377000+00:00
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One month after the Stonewall Inn uprising, activist Marty Robinson speaks to a crowd of approximately 200 people at the first mass rally for gay rights in New York City on July 27, 1969. Nicknamed Mr. Zap, Robinson also led the movement's first zaps.
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Singer and anti-gay activist Anita Bryant covers her face after being hit with a pie during a news conference in Des Moines, Iowa, in October 1977. In what would become one of their most infamous zaps, activists sought to embarrass Bryant for leading a campaign against gay rights.
https://www.nationalgeographic.com/science/article/solar-eclipse-will-create-a-rare-crescent-sunrise-for-millions-of-viewers
2021-06-09T15:47:10.476000+00:00
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This breathtaking image of an annular solar eclipse on January 4, 2010, was captured by the Hinode solar mission spacecraft.
Solar Eclipse 101
A total solar eclipse happens somewhere on Earth once every year or two. What is an eclipse? Learn more about how solar eclipses happen, the four types of eclipses, and how to view the sun safely if you're within the path of totality.Eclipse map adapted with permission:
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https://www.nationalgeographic.com/travel/slideshow/explore-abu-dhabi-campaign
2021-06-15T18:36:43.666000+00:00
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Fort Liwa
https://www.nationalgeographic.com/travel/slideshow/singapore-city-of-innovation-campaign
2021-06-11T12:59:38.713000+00:00
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Singapore 2
https://www.nationalgeographic.com/travel/article/will-the-pandemic-crush-nepals-trekking-industry
2022-01-26T17:09:33.818000+00:00
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Many guides in Solukhumbu built tourist lodges in recent years, like the Khangri Resort Lodge in Chukhung.
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Phurba Nyamgal Sherpa checks gear in Khumjung. The Himalayan hilltown of Khumjung should be bustling with foreign trekkers gearing up for Mount Everest climbs, but COVID-19 has threatened the livelihood of Sherpas.
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Pack animals, mules seen here, are used by Sherpas to ferry goods for trekkers and climbers in the Everest region.
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Namche Bazar town is seen from atop a hill in the Everest region of Solukhumbu.
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Sherpas are turning to traditional agriculture in the absence of tourism income.
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Hikers trek to Everest Base Camp in Nepal. The coronavirus has eviscerated Nepal’s tourism economy.
https://www.nationalgeographic.com/photo-of-the-day/media-spotlight/miami-convertible-florida-ocean
2021-06-09T12:58:51.435000+00:00
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Convertible Cruise
https://www.nationalgeographic.com/environment/slideshow/audi-electric-earth-campaign
2021-06-11T13:00:15.234000+00:00
https://www.nationalgeographic.com/travel/slideshow/visit-rwanda-campaign
2021-06-09T15:25:10.772000+00:00
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Rwanda rising
https://www.nationalgeographic.com/travel/slideshow/slovenia-waters-of-wellbeing-campaign
2021-06-09T15:22:47.507000+00:00
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Ljubljanica River
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2021-06-11T13:00:49.910000+00:00
https://www.nationalgeographic.com/environment/slideshow/new-zealands-welcome-campaign
2021-06-11T13:01:51.416000+00:00
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New Zealand, Nelson and Abel Tasman
https://www.nationalgeographic.com/environment/slideshow/prada-re-nylon-campaign
2021-06-11T09:10:57.421000+00:00
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https://www.nationalgeographic.com/science/article/bezos-is-just-the-latest-moneybags-to-go-into-space
2021-06-09T22:09:12.516000+00:00
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Two people at a 2017 Blue Origin event in Colorado try out seats on a module version of a company capsule.
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Amazon and Blue Origin founder Jeff Bezos speaks at a 2017 event in Colorado for his space company.
https://www.nationalgeographic.com/animals/article/gray-whale-swam-halfway-across-the-world-setting-a-new-record
2021-06-09T01:13:58.871000+00:00
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A gray whale swims through Alaska's Prince William Sound. The species is typically found in the Pacific, though there have been recent sightings in the Atlantic.
Incredible Aerial Video: Young Gray Whale Swims With Beachgoers
August 9, 2017 - A young gray whale gave California beachgoers quite a sight when it swam close to shore. The whale probably wasn't lost—it's common for them to forage the ocean floor alone. It's rare to see gray whales in California in the middle of August; most have already migrated north to feeding grounds near Alaska. Gray whales undergo some of the longest migrations of any animal on Earth. One female was tracked traveling over 14,000 miles. Harbor authorities eventually coaxed the young whale away by using hoses to create loud splashes in the water.Click here to read Gray Whale Swims With Beachgoers In Incredible Aerial Video.
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https://www.nationalgeographic.com/environment/article/global-treaty-to-regulate-plastic-pollution-gains-momentum
2021-06-11T12:50:40.388000+00:00
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Plastic pollution in the ocean is projected to triple by 2040, increasing the urgency of finding a global solution.
https://www.nationalgeographic.com/animals/article/a-year-without-tourism-crisis-for-thailands-captive-elephants
2021-06-08T15:11:44.369000+00:00
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Despite the lack of tourists, mahouts at Elephants’ Home and Nature, in Kanchanaburi, try to maintain a normal routine with the six elephants in their charge—including bathing daily in the River Kwai.
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Pre-pandemic photos displayed at Elephants’ Home and Nature show tourists interacting with elephants at the property. With few visitors this past year because of the pandemic, however, the camp has struggled to afford to feed its elephants.
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Mahout Winchai Permsap, 51, feeds baby Doh Doh at Elephants’ Home and Nature. It costs the camp nearly $300 each week to feed its six elephants and several rescue dogs.
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Tong Pornpitcha Kaewtrakulpong, owner of Elephants’ Home and Nature, prays daily with Buddhist monks. She often asks for donations from supporters on Facebook to feed the elephants. She has sold most of her valuable possessions to buy them food.
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Mahout Visanchon Yongram’s family owns four elephants that, until the pandemic, worked in the tourism industry. After the elephant camps closed, the family brought three of them back to their home in Surin. They now live on a patch of land behind the family’s house. Their fourth elephant, a baby, remains at a camp in Ayutthaya, near Bangkok.
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An elephant performance stadium sits empty in Ban Ta Klang, a small town in Surin known as “Elephant Village.” The town is a hub for Thailand’s captive elephant industry, with many residents involved in breeding and training elephants that are later sent to tourist camps around the country. When the camps shut down because of the pandemic, dozens of elephants returned to Ban Ta Klang.
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At Chok Chai elephant camp, easels showcase elephant paintings. Before the pandemic, Chok Chai was a traditional venue where elephants gave rides and performed in shows, doing circus-style tricks such as painting. Chok Chai is home to 56 elephants, who remained at the camp after it was forced to close during the pandemic. Two NGOs, Trunk’s Up and Save Elephant Foundation, have launched a fundraiser for the camp, which has struggled to afford food for the elephants. In return, Chok Chai’s owners have agreed to transition their elephants away from performances and riding toward a more natural lifestyle, and to adhere to strict welfare standards.
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A young elephant stretches on its short chain at Chok Chai. It spends most of its time in this concrete paddock, typical of many traditional camps in Thailand. Camps like Chok Chai normally employ one mahout per elephant, but due to the loss of tourism income, the camp had to lay off most of its mahouts. Only 15 mostly inexperienced mahouts now care for its 56 elephants
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Lek Saengduean Chailert, founder and director of Elephant Nature Park, stands with two rescued elephants at her sanctuary. It has many supporters, especially on social media, so during the pandemic she and her team have been fundraising to provide food and resources to dozens of camps around Thailand.
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An employee at Elephant Nature Park creates a custom elephant fruit “cake” in honor of a supporter’s birthday. For a donation, the sanctuary designs the treat and sends the supporter a video of an elephant enjoying it. It’s one of many creative ways to raise money that sanctuaries and camps have developed in the past year to help offset the loss of tourism.
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Gluay Hom enjoys a birthday fruit cake at Elephant Nature Park. In 2019, National Geographic documented an injured and emaciated Gluay Hom chained up behind a stadium at a camp outside of Bangkok. After the story published and a petition for his rescue got more than 75,000 signatures, Elephant Nature Park secured his release. Now healthy, he lives in a spacious enclosure at the sanctuary.
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Chayanin “Charlie” Patchimtassanakal is a Karen mahout who lives in a hill tribe village near Chiang Mai, Thailand, with his two elephants. He works at both Mae Wang, a traditional elephant camp, and Chai Lai Orchid, a tourist eco-retreat. Patchimtassanakal says he feels grateful to still be employed at a time when so many mahouts are out of work.
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Elephants relax at “The Chang,” part of Maesa Elephant Camp, in Chiang Mai, that owner Anchalee Kalmapijit has transformed into an oasis for elephants. Inspired by Chailert’s work at Elephant Nature Park, Kalmapijit used the pandemic as an opportunity to convert and rebuild her camp. No longer offering elephant rides and shows, it’s being remodeled to provide elephants room to roam freely. Kalmapijit says she hopes her camp’s transition can provide a blueprint for others across Thailand to shift to more ethical models as well.
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Three elephants roam in a new free-range area of Maesa Elephant Camp, in Chiang Mai, Thailand. Formerly a traditional riding camp, it has been transformed during the pandemic to be more elephant-friendly. But caring for elephants without any income from tourism has plunged owner Anchalee Kalmapijit into staggering debt.
https://www.nationalgeographic.com/magazine/article/see-the-fabulous-fossils-unearthed-in-a-garbage-dump-feature
2022-06-20T17:34:40.895000+00:00
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Can Mata is the largest active landfill in the Catalonia region of Spain, and it keeps getting bigger. Fed up with the smell and noise, many locals want it closed. But each expansion offers paleontologists access to fossils deep underground that would otherwise be out of reach.
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The soil at Can Mata holds fascinating fossils from about 11.2 million to 12.5 million years ago, including species of ancient primates found nowhere else in the world. Paleontologists have been monitoring the dump’s expansion since 2002.
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When they spot a promising fossil in the soft, fine dirt at Can Mata, paleontologists such as Víctor Morenos Páez cover it with light-catching aluminum foil for later collection and processing.
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Alba Rico Barrio is among the scientists who have flocked to the dump over the years to help unearth its prehistoric riches. The fossils emerging from Can Mata so far represent more than 85 mammal species, plus about 15 species of birds, amphibians, and reptiles.
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ICP director David Alba has been making discoveries at Can Mata since he was a Ph.D. student at the University of Barcelona. Among his early finds was Pierolapithecus catalaunicus, one of the most complete Miocene primate skeletons. “From the viewpoint of paleontological heritage, the dump is making a huge contribution to science,” Alba says.
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Once removed from the landfill, fossils are stored at ICP headquarters in Barcelona, where they wait to be prepared and studied. Here, conservator Jordi Galindo checks the labels on bundles of fossil-laden earth encased in polyurethane foam.
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Álex Pérez, collections manager of Barcelona’s CosmoCaixa science museum, examines the fossilized bones of Pliobates cataloniae, one of the ancient primates unearthed from Can Mata. This diminutive species shows that some early ancestors of modern apes and humans were much smaller than scientists had thought.
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The skull of a false saber-toothed cat is cradled by head conservator Xènia Aymerich of the Catalan Institute of Paleontology Miquel Crusafont (ICP). It’s one of more than 70,000 fossils found at the Abocador de Can Mata, a landfill near Barcelona that’s a paleontologists’ paradise.
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The skull of a false saber-toothed cat is cradled by head conservator Xènia Aymerich of the Catalan Institute of Paleontology Miquel Crusafont (ICP). It’s one of more than 70,000 fossils found at the Abocador de Can Mata, a landfill near Barcelona that’s a paleontologists’ paradise.
https://www.nationalgeographic.com/photography/article/celebrating-the-proud-culture-behind-nigerian-hairstyles
2022-06-20T17:37:46.889000+00:00
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Ojeikere photographed hairstyles notable for their patterns (right) or their messages. A style called onile gogoro (left) was a reference to the skyscrapers built in postindependence Nigeria.
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Nigerian women’s expressive styles include flamboyant attire and accessories “and, amongst a younger, more daring set, colorful, showstopping hair,” says writer Ayodeji Rotinwa.
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Dugger modeled this vivid portrait of a heart-shaped hairstyle after a similar black-and-white image by Ojeikere.
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A variety of materials give structure to hairstyles, including wool (seen here), weaves, cowrie shells, kebab skewers, and hair spray.
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Some women in the Yoruba ethnic group wear the Irun Kiko style, their hair knotted with thread, to express cultural pride and femininity.
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Calabar style, in which hair is elaborately sectioned on the head, derives its name from the Nigerian port city where it’s common.
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A hairstyle can be a powerful expression of individuality. This design suggests the shape of a coiled snake or a teacup and saucer.
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With her project Chroma, photographer and artist Medina Sage Dugger pays homage to J.D. ’Okhai Ojeikere (1930-2014), a photographer famous for his black-and-white images of Nigerian women’s intricate hairdos. Wunika Mukan consulted on the project.
https://www.nationalgeographic.com/photo-of-the-day/media-spotlight/coral-barrier-reef-australia
2021-06-08T11:14:17.549000+00:00
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Colorful Coral
https://www.nationalgeographic.com/science/article/earth-has-lost-and-gained-many-oceans-heres-where-a-new-one-might-appear-next
2022-04-25T17:57:13.781000+00:00
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This wall-size panel of fluorescent rock, sourced from Ogdensburg, New Jersey, represents part of a now-vanished ocean that existed some 1.2 billion years ago.
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A diver swims near Isla Espiritu Santo in the Gulf of California, a growing body of water that formed just five to 10 million years ago, when tectonic shifts ripped the land of Baja California from what is now Mexico.
Earth 101
Earth is the only planet known to maintain life. Find out the origins of our home planet and some of the key ingredients that help make this blue speck in space a unique global ecosystem.
https://link.theplatform.com/s/ngs/media/guid/2423130747/00000167-1459-d376-af6f-dc5b246a0000
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https://www.nationalgeographic.com/environment/article/theres-a-new-ocean-now-can-you-name-all-five-southern-ocean
2021-09-23T11:21:18.621000+00:00
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The Gerlache Strait lies off the west coast of the Antarctic Peninsula, in the large band of ocean around Antarctica that has been reclassified as the Southern Ocean by National Geographic cartographers. The strait would once have been considered part of the Pacific.
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The large band of ocean around Antarctica that has been reclassified as the Southern Ocean by National Geographic cartographers.
Southern Ocean explainer
Explainer about the Southern Ocean and how it is defined
https://link.theplatform.com/s/ngs/media/guid/2423130747/00000179-e8a7-d912-a37b-e8af25600000
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https://www.nationalgeographic.com/animals/article/two-new-species-of-cat-size-flying-squirrels-discovered-in-the-himalaya
2021-06-09T01:20:58.233000+00:00
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The Yunnan woolly flying squirrel (pictured) lives in the mountains of southwestern China, a hot spot for biodiversity.
Deciphering the Strange Behavior of Squirrels
October 10, 2017—Squirrels are one of the most common animals found in urban and suburban areas, but many of their behaviors can go unnoticed. You may have seen squirrels burying nuts, but what you may not have noticed is just how organized their stash is. Scientists at UC Berkeley, however, spend a lot of time watching squirrels. They found that squirrels sort their stores by food type, and exhibit complex body language, even showing signs of frustration. In a less formal experiment, one video blogger captured squirrels' anxiety when presented with a figurine surrounded by food. In another test, it was the squirrel doing the capturing, making off with a camera baited with bread.READ: Squirrels Gone Wild: Their Quirky Behaviors Explained
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https://www.nationalgeographic.com/culture/article/in-one-of-egypts-most-spiritual-places-bedouins-find-peace-and-resilience
2022-01-26T17:10:10.061000+00:00
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Zeinab Ibrahim, 27, makes her way back to the village of Al Tarfa before sunset with three other Bedouins after a day's walk across the mountains to feed the village herd. Al Tarfa is among several settlements nestled between the imposing mountains of the Sinai Peninsula, Egypt. Zeinab, who is preparing to become a bride, asked for a sparkling red dress from Cairo to wear at her bachelorette party, a gathering that is referred to simply as henna. It's much more important than the wedding dress, she says. Henna is where the fun happens.
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Yasmine Oum Mohamed, stands for a portrait in the sparsely populated desert region in the Sinai Peninsula, Egypt, home to the Bedouins. The mother of five has been involved in a community effort that uses embroidery and poetry as a form of expression. She is from Sheikh Awad, one of the many villages in the Sinai that remain without electricity or running water.
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Young Bedouin women wear henna on their hands to celebrate the first day of Eid. Expensive Bedouin gold accessories have been replaced with plastic rings due to the community's economic challenges.
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Moussa Algebaly, a member of the Jebeliya tribe, lies under a flower plant after working on his garden in Al Tarfa Village. After years of drought, a major flood occurred in mid-March 2020, providing an agricultural opportunity for the Bedouin community amid the economic shortfall as a result of the COVID-19 pandemic.
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A father and son walk over the hill to watch the last moments of sunset. Fathers within the Bedouin community help care for the children when the mothers are off walking the village herd for hours.
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In this embroidered photograph, Hajja Oum Mohamed, 53, is seen standing in her garden. Up until the 1990’s, women were prohibited from being seen, even in photographs, by men from other tribes without consent. As part of a community effort that uses embroidery as a form of expression, female Bedouins add embroidery to self-portraits printed on fabric. This way, they control what to reveal or conceal.
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Nora Om Aly, from the Al Tarfa Village, uses embroidery on a photograph of her hands.
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Yasmine Oum Mohamed used embroidery to enhance this photograph of a centuries-old traditional Bedouin house in Sheikh Awad Village built with rocks from the surrounding mountains.
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An embroidered photograph by Nora Oum Jamil of her husband Ashraf and her youngest son Jamil in the living room of their home.
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Mohamed Ghonim, 12, adjusts his scarf as he plays with his friends in the Sinai Peninsula, Egypt. As part of a four-year community effort, original poetry written by males is coupled with photographs. Poetry by Seliman Abdel Rahman Abu Anas. Photo and poem translation by Rehab Eldalil.
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A woman stands against the wind as she waits for her turn to enter a local community clinic. As part of a community effort, original poetry written by males is coupled with photographs. Poetry by Seliman Abdel Rahman Abu Anas. Photo and poem translation by Rehab Eldalil.
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Youssef Ateyya stands for a portrait in his family’s garden in Gharba Valley. He collects khodary leaves to grind and sell to merchants and customers.
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Concrete apartment buildings stand empty in St. Katherine. The government intended the structures to house Bedouin locals and workers coming from across the country, but they disregarded environmental laws and Bedouin culture during construction.
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A photograph of a flower sprouting from dry land embroidered by Om Anas from Al Tarfa Village, St. Katherine, South Sinai, Egypt.
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A photograph of Nadia Mohamed embroidered by her and her cousin Mariam Ibrahim from Al Tarfa Village.
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An embroidered photograph of Jebel Al Banat, a local mountain, by Yasmine Oum Mohamed from Sheikh Awad Village. Legend says that three girls jumped off the summit instead of going through with arranged marriages.
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From left, Nora Mohamed, Nadia Mohamed, Hoda Mohamed, and Mariam Ibrahim stand on a hill in front of the mountains of South Sinai, Egypt in February, 2021. Every day, the women of Al Tarfa Village walk in a group of four from sunrise to sunset leading a herd of sheep and goats. As the animals feed on wild plants, the women talk, share concerns, ask for advice, and learn from one another.
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An embroidered photograph of Mahmoud Abdo in his home in Al Tarfa Village. His cousin Nora Mohamed embroidered the image.
https://www.nationalgeographic.com/travel/article/the-longest-rail-trail-in-the-us-is-now-open-in-new-york-state
2022-01-28T19:36:26.946000+00:00
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The Walkway—the world’s longest elevated pedestrian bridge—is a repurposed concrete-and-steel railway span from the late 19th century. It crosses the Hudson River between Poughkeepsie and Highland, New York.
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The Ausable Chasm, a rock-lined section of the river with the same name, is known as the “Grand Canyon of the Adirondacks.” It’s located near the town of Keeseville.
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The Empire State Trail winds past numerous old mills, including this one on Claverack Creek in upstate New York.
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A cyclist pedals along the Canalway Trail in Niskayuna, New York, a section of the new 750-mile multipurpose Empire State Trail.
https://www.nationalgeographic.com/photo-of-the-day/media-spotlight/graduation-california-los-angeles
2021-06-07T12:58:01.331000+00:00
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Graduation Celebration
https://www.nationalgeographic.com/family/article/help-kids-breathe-in-some-mental-goodness-with-aromatherapy
2022-03-11T17:00:43.010000+00:00
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https://www.nationalgeographic.com/science/article/what-you-need-to-know-about-the-covid-19-lab-leak-hypothesis
2021-06-04T22:05:27.141000+00:00
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A security official moves journalists away from the Wuhan Institute of Virology after a World Health Organization team arrived for a field visit in Wuhan in China's Hubei province on Wednesday, Feb. 3, 2021 to investigate the origins of the coronavirus pandemic.
https://www.nationalgeographic.com/photo-of-the-day/media-spotlight/nurse-army-war-veteran
2021-06-04T20:48:05.508000+00:00
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After D-Day
https://www.nationalgeographic.com/photo-of-the-day/media-spotlight/mustangs-nevada-land-management
2021-06-04T20:47:23.985000+00:00
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Wild Horses
https://www.nationalgeographic.com/environment/article/where-are-the-us-natural-gas-pipelines-often-in-vulnerable-communities
2021-06-04T19:39:04.919000+00:00
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Gas pipelines like this one in Massachusetts crisscross the United States. A new study finds that the highest concentrations of them are located in communities considered vulnerable.
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https://www.nationalgeographic.com/science/article/are-we-there-yet-what-happens-if-the-us-cant-reach-herd-immunity
2021-06-07T20:46:11.751000+00:00
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Newly vaccinated people were rewarded with a free beer at an event hosted by the District of Columbia Health Department.
https://www.nationalgeographic.com/travel/article/san-antonios-new-battle-over-the-alamo
2022-02-16T14:55:27.087000+00:00
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“Dawn at the Alamo,” artist Henry McArdle’s billboard-sized 1905 oil painting, depicts the legendary 1836 battle in San Antonio, Texas. It hangs in the Texas State Capitol in Austin.
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Men load a cannon to fire during a 2020 ceremony honoring Blas María Herrera, nicknamed “the Paul Revere of the Texas Revolution” after he warned his fellow Texian soldiers of General Santa Anna’s advance on the Alamo. Like many Latino supporters of Texas independence, Herrera is not well known.
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Birth records from the Mission San Antonio de Valero, as the Alamo was known in the colonial era, are on display at San Antonio’s Witte Museum.
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The Cenotaph, a 1930s memorial, lists names of many of the Texians who fought at the the 1846 Battle of the Alamo. They include photographer Robert Pluma’s ancestor, José María Guerrero.
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Armed protesters gathered at the Alamo in April 2020. A plan to move a 1930s memorial to Texans who died at the Battle of the Alamo in 1836 was met with fierce opposition from traditionalists, who believe the structure is an empty tomb.
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The 60-foot-tall Alamo Cenotaph sits adjacent to the Alamo in San Antonio, Texas.
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Vintage souvenir plates commemorating the Alamo are displayed at Schilo’s Restaurant in San Antonio, Texas.
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An 1830s Bowie knife in the Alamo’s collection was commissioned by Alamo Defender Jim Bowie’s brother Rezin. The weapons became popular in the 19th century after Jim Bowie, a notorious fighter, had a similar fixed-blade knife made for him.
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A wax museum and other carnival-like attractions operate in historic buildings on Alamo Plaza.
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The Alamo Chapel, a Spanish mission-era structure, sits in the main plaza of San Antonio, Texas. A plan to restore and rethink it for visitors has been highly controversial.
https://www.nationalgeographic.com/history/history-magazine/article/where-queen-sheba-rule-arabia-africa
2021-06-04T14:01:11.401000+00:00
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Solomon and Sheba (center frame). Ethiopian icon, 18th century.
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David And Solomon, Church Of Santa Maria Assunta, Torcello, Venice, 11th century.
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Toward the end of his life, 19th-century French painter James Tissot painted numerous works on biblical themes, including the meeting of King Solomon and the Queen of Sheba.
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Jerusalem has expanded beyond the city limits of King David’s era. To the north is Temple Mount, where an Islamic shrine, the Dome of the Rock, sits today. This site is believed to be where Solomon’s Temple stood.
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A bull’s head centers this seventh-century B.C. Sabaean altar, which features two sets of ibex heads on either side. The bull was sacred to Almaqah, the Sabaean god of the moon. Louvre Museum, Paris.
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Many ancient empires, including Egypt and Assyria, battled over Megiddo, a strategic enclave in northern Israel.
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The Sabaeans were masters of alabaster carvings, like this female figure found in modern-day Yemen, which dates to around the third century B.C.
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A third-century A.D. incense burner offered to a Sabaean deity. British Museum, London.
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The circa 6th-century A.D. ruins of Dongar Palace, located within the lands of the ancient kingdom of Aksum in northern Ethiopia, are known popularly as the Queen of Sheba’s Palace.
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A bronze hand is inscribed with a prayer mentioning the Sabaean city of Zafar (in modern-day Yemen). Bronze, second-third centuries A.D. British Museum, London.
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In the Yemeni desert rise the remains of ancient Marib, the site of the capital of the ancient kingdom of Saba. Flourishing in the eighth century B.C., Saba is believed by some to be the homeland of the Queen of Sheba.
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Wendell Phillips (far left) poses with his most important discovery at Awwam, a votive bronze statue honoring the Sabaean lunar god, Almaqah. The figure is dressed in an animal skin (perhaps a lion), whose paws are visible here draped around the shoulders and hips. Other votive offerings found at the site were in the form of animals, including bulls, which were sacred to the moon god.
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The Queen of Sheba is depicted inside a temple surrounded by water. 17th-century Ethiopian manuscript.
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King Solomon meets the Queen of Sheba in this 16th-century painting by Lambert Sustris. National Gallery, London.
https://www.nationalgeographic.com/photo-of-the-day/media-spotlight/gorilla-cat-koko-kitten
2021-06-04T13:21:06.493000+00:00
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Koko's Kitten