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Science
Watch a Giant Stingray’s Safe Return to Its River Home
Just after dawn on May 5, scientists working along a stretch of the Mekong River in Cambodia released a giant,…
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Finance
Colorado River Reservoirs Are So Low, Government Is Delaying Releases
With long-term severe drought continuing to take a toll on the Colorado River, the federal government is expected to announce…
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An Anaconda’s Play Date With Dolphins Took a Strange Turn
In August 2021, a research team was documenting biodiversity near the Tijamuchi River in Bolivia when they saw some animals…
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Travel
Descending Into Florida’s Underwater Caves
Long before theme parks began sprouting from Orlando’s swamps, Florida’s freshwater springs were among the area’s main attractions. Indigenous ...
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World
A 2,700-Year-Old Figurine Revives a Weighty Mystery
Two summers ago, while snorkeling in the marshy streams of the Tollense River on Germany’s Baltic coast, a 51-year-old truck…
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Celebrating the ‘Great Night of Shiva’ in Kathmandu
It was the night before a new moon, and a rotating palette of color, reflecting off the buildings, floated like…
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World
In New Zealand, the Fishhook Pendant Called Hei Matau
The Maori, New Zealand’s Indigenous people, navigated to the country from Polynesia by sea, some arriving as early as the…
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World
Iran Forcefully Clamps Down on Protests Against Growing Water Shortages
For two weeks the Iranian government tolerated growing protests over scarce water supplies in the central Iranian city of Isfahan,…
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On Delhi’s Toxic River, Prayers to a Sun Struggling to Shine Through Smog
NEW DELHI — As the worshipers descended the slope to the riverbank, dressed in their festival best and carrying offerings,…
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Whales So Close You Can Touch Them: A Family Adventure in Canada
The trail to our yurt was narrow, muddy and peppered with tiny ceramic and plasticgnomes, fairies and bears. My 8-year-old…
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