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Barbados—Several species of morning swimmers—human tourists, protected turtles, assorted fish—share the azure waters of Paynes Bay. Boat operators here feed fish-strip breakfasts to about 15 young hawksbill and green turtles.
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Icon of ancient Egypt, the teenage pharaoh’s funerary mask immortalizes his features in gold, glass, and semiprecious stones. This and other treasures from his tomb, now in Cairo’s Egyptian Museum, attract a constant swirl of visitors.
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Honsa Olafson’s 900-foot-long conical net snags a mess of eels in the Baltic Sea. In Sweden the fish are grilled, smoked, fried, roasted, or dropped into soup for the autumn eel party, a centuries-old tradition on the Sküne coast in the south. One good excuse for serving schnapps, vodka, and beer at the event: Swedes believe alcohol aids in digesting the fatty fish.
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Bordered by beaches and interspersed with dunes and sand blows, Fraser Island stretches more than 75 miles long and some 15 miles wide.
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Hidden in the desert canyons west of the Nile, the Valley of the Kings holds the tombs of King Tut and his royal relatives. In antiquity this was considered a secluded spot. Today the growing suburbs of Luxor shimmer nearby.
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The endangered Cooloola sedge frog (Litoria cooloolensis) is part of the rare group of acid frogs—so named because they find refuge in naturally acidic waters, including Fraser’s freshwater lakes.
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Black eyes and red hearts dot glass eels scooped into a tank from Maine’s Damariscotta River. This batch, worth some $400 a pound, is bound for China. Eeling in the U.S. is heavily regulated; Maine is one of the few states allowing the export of glass eels.
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England—Membranous wings spanning two feet and head tucked out of sight, an adult male Egyptian fruit bat negotiates netting in a London studio. This nocturnal fruit-eater was the living subject of an anatomical study.
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Turkey; A ten-foot concrete hand stands above the eastern Turkish town of Kars, part of a monument of goodwill toward nearby Armenia that may never be completed. Construction stopped partly because of protests by residents opposed to improved relations with Armenia.
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Wind River Roadless Area, Wyoming No signs point the way here, only the arthritic limbs of a pine gesturing to an endless sky. It is the wildest of the wild, a glacier-scoured terrain unmarred by roads, tugged at by wind, on the shoulder of the Continental Divide. This preserve of the Eastern Shoshone and Northern Arapaho dates back to 1937, decades before the United States passed the Wilderness Act, in 1964.
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Hunted to death in much of India, tigers survive in Kaziranga.
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What bloodied this rhino? Maybe a clash with a male rival, maybe a courting session with the departing female in the background. The park harbors three quarters of the world’s Indian one-horned rhinos—11 per square mile. The crowding could lead to more battles and more wounds, which are a frequent sight.
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Iceland—Lightning veins the Eyjafjallajkull volcano’s ash plume, which roiled air travel this spring. Such “dirty thunderstorms” may occur when rock and ice particles loosed by exploding magma collide in the atmosphere.
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In the city that never sleeps a new awareness about energy means the Empire State Building now uses bright lights at night only to celebrate holidays and special events. And power-hungry Manhattan has generating potential of its own: A tidal-energy project under development in the swift-flowing East River could power a thousand homes.
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Erik the Red killed a man in Iceland over a trifle and worshipped Norse gods until the end, but at Qassiarsuk (above), site of his Greenland farm, there is a replica of the tiny wood church he built for his wife, who converted to Christianity. A wall kept out the livestock.
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A Tibetan Buddhist monk hurries through the thin air at 16,000 feet to reach the sprawling Litang monastery in Sichuan. The Tea Horse Road linked dozens of monasteries, which often regulated the local distribution of tea.
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Torn from the hills, thousands of dead trees still float on Spirit Lake. Toxic in the immediate aftermath of the blast, the lake is now richer than ever—filled with tadpoles, aquatic plants, and 20-inch rainbow trout.
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China—Vehicles form a line for natural gas on a spiral bridge in Chongqing. Supplies of the fuel were diverted to snowed-in northern China last November, sparking a shortage in the central and eastern provinces.
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The 101-story World Financial Center, China’s tallest building (left), Jin Mao Tower (center), and Oriental Pearl TV Tower signal the city’s rising ambition.
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Cattle and goats have pulverized the drought-prone Omo region into dust. The animals are prized symbols of wealth; in many tribes men cannot marry without paying large bride-prices of livestock.
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This juvenile eyed the camera curiously as the Canyon pack ranged along a power-line corridor near Yellowstone’s Norris Geyser Basin. The wolf has been demonized, defeated, and defended by humans. It must now renegotiate its place in a changed habitat.
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To settle the dust at the site of Cantayoc, a worker wets down the path that tourists take to explore one of the ancient entrances to a puquio—a network of wells, linked by stone-lined tunnels, that the Nasca constructed to tap an aquifer that still provides water to local communities.
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hanghai’s new centerpiece, the Pudong financial district lights up like a carnival on another cloud-swept, profit-making night.
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Ghost warriors, sculpted 2,200 years ago to accompany China’s first emperor into eternity, were to serve in a carefully planned afterlife—along with bureaucrats, beasts, and entertainers.
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On Skye’s Trotternish Peninsula, basalt pinnacles loom over the Sound of Raasay. Rising from the debris of an ancient landslide, they bear witness to the geologic upheavals that shaped these lands.
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Boreray, St. Kilda Legions of seabirds throng the sky and stipple narrow ledges with their nests. Often hidden in cloud, the northern end of the island juts 1,260 feet above the ocean, and 60,000 pairs of gannets—the world’s largest colony—breed here and on nearby sea stacks. Barefoot St. Kildans used to scale these crags, harvesting birds and eggs that helped sustain their remote community.
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