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Lake Khanka in Eastern Russia and China
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Published February 18, 2007
At the juncture of the border between China and Russia sits Lake Khanka, also known as Lake Xinghai. Due to their importance to plant and animal species, the lake and the surrounding wetlands are protected by the Ramsar Convention, an international treaty for the protection and sustainable use of wetlands. Migratory birds that frequent this lake include several endangered species, such as the Japanese crane.
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Detailed View of Arctic Sea Ice
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Published February 1, 2007
For many years, scientists have expected that climate change will be more rapid and dramatic at the poles than at lower latitudes, an expectation that has been demonstrated both with climate models and recent observations of snow and ice, surface temperatures, vegetation, and permafrost.
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Shiretoko National Park
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Published August 13, 2006
Hokkaido’s Shiretoko Peninsula provides mostly temperate Japan with a taste of the Arctic.
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Noril’sk, Northeast Siberia
Published April 30, 2006
Blue-white plumes of smoke (just left of image center) drift southeastward from smokestacks in Noril’sk. The deep and pale pinks downwind of the city, as well as the deep purple in the hillsides immediately outside Noril’sk, are moderately to severely damaged ecosystems. To the northeast of the river, the ecosystems appear healthier.
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Dead Sea
Published December 25, 2005
In the Jordan rift valley, the continents of Africa and Asia are pulling apart from each other, and the land in between has been subsiding for millennia. The sinking has created the Dead Sea.
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The Tour de France Visits Courchevel
Published July 12, 2005
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Mammoth Cave National Park
Published May 1, 2005
Archaeological evidence indicates that American Indians living in the area began exploring the cave system in the late Archaic period, between 5,000 and 3,000 years ago. European settlers first found the caves in 1798.
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Antarctic Iceberg Gets Stuck
Published February 1, 2005
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Crater Lake National Park
Published January 23, 2005
It one of the oldest parks in the United States, created in 1902 by President Theodore Roosevelt.