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Mount Mabu, Mozambique
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Published January 11, 2009
In 2005, researchers at the Royal Botanic Gardens, Kew stumbled upon secret: a little-known forest in northern Mozambique.
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Yellow River Delta, China
Published January 4, 2009
China’s Yellow River, or Huang He, travels through soft plateaus of silt, picking up a massive sediment load on its journey. The sediment carried by the river has reshaped China’s coast, adding several hundred square kilometers of land.
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Tagula Island, Louisiade Archipelago
Published January 2, 2009
Scattered like turquoise and emeralds across the dark blue waters of the Coral and Solomon Seas, the coral reefs and forested islands of the Louisiade Archipelago stretch southeastward from the tip of Papua New Guinea for over 350 kilometers.
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Manantali Reservoir, Mali
Published December 28, 2008
The Bafing River travels through Guinea and Mali, and eventually joins with the Senegal River in western Africa. In the 1970s, drought struck the region, prompting a multinational effort to develop irrigation and power generation.
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Korean Demilitarized Zone
Published December 24, 2008
The DMZ offered an opportunity to protect an environment that sees little human impact. Satellite imagery, however, reveals multiple burn scars of varying age.
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