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Where Trucks Drive on the River
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Published March 19, 2017
In Canada’s Northwest Territories, bitter cold turns waterways into roads.
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Ice on Puma Yumco
Published March 18, 2017
Every winter, people in a high-altitude village on the Tibetan Plateau herd their sheep across the frozen lake toward two islands with better forage.
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Sprawling Shanghai
Published March 17, 2017
Shanghai is one of several cities on the Yangtze River Delta that has experienced unprecedented growth.
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Contrasting Ridges in Virginia
Published March 15, 2017
Despite being quite close to each other, two mountain ridges in western Virginia have very different origins.
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South Africa’s ‘Brown Gold’
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Published March 14, 2017
In some parts of Africa, trees are being grown instead of being cut down.
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Cultivating Egypt’s Desert
Published March 11, 2017
This part of the eastern Sahara is very dry, but greenery has been cropping up in recent decades.
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Antarctic Sea Ice is Lean and Green
Published March 9, 2017
It may look like someone dyed the water green for St. Patrick’s Day, but the green hue visible off the coast of Antarctica is entirely natural.
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