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The tart berry and state fruit brings a red pop to holiday feasts—and to satellite images of Midwestern marshlands.
Published Nov 27, 2025
The ancient walls, ramparts, and ditches that wind through this Nigerian city are the longest known earthworks of the pre-mechanical era.
Published Dec 1, 2025
Over millions of years, water has sculpted limestone in northern Vietnam into an extraordinary karst landscape full of towers, cones, caves, and subterranean waterways.
Published Nov 26, 2025
Hurricane Melissa left the island nation’s forests brown and battered, but they won’t stay that way for long.
Published Nov 25, 2025
A Gulf Coast storm followed by snowmelt in January 2025 temporarily increased the Mississippi River’s outflow, sending a surge of sediment through the delta and into gulf waters.
Published Sep 28, 2025
