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Dead Sea
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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
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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.
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Delaware Water Gap
Published January 9, 2005
The park runs roughly 40 miles along the Delaware River and the Appalachian Mountains, which are immediately adjacent to the river.
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Oil Spill off Unalaska Island
Published December 17, 2004
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Denver Skyline
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Published September 5, 2004
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Tampa Bay, Florida
Published August 14, 2004
This satellite image of Tampa Bay on the western coast of Florida, shows just how close people have come to living on the “ends of the Earth.”
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Fires In Alaska and Northern Canada
Published July 15, 2004
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Published July 6, 2004
In east-central Alaska, the Pingo Fire was scorching hundreds of thousands of acres north of the Yukon River in early July 2004.
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Earthquake near San Simeon, California
Published December 26, 2003
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