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Lake Urmia
Published August 4, 2014
This shallow, saline lake in Iran is one of the largest in the Middle East. But drought and water withdrawals for farming are shrinking it.
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Revisiting Bikini Atoll
Published March 1, 2014
Sixty years ago, operation Castle Bravo unleashed the unexpectedly potent power of a hydrogen bomb on a small island chain in the western Pacific.
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El Vizcaíno Biosphere Reserve, Mexico
Published March 25, 2012
Shrubs, dunes, mangroves, and salt mines mingle in this picture of a wildlife reserve midway down the Baja California Peninsula.
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Tassel n’Ajjer National Park
Published March 27, 2011
Part of the Sahara Desert, the rocky plateau is rich in geologic and human history.
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Great Blue Hole, Belize
Published April 3, 2009
A vertical cave in Belize’s Lighthouse Reef Atoll comprises a popular diving site known as the Great Blue Hole. The Advanced Land Imager on NASA’s Earth Observing-1 satellite captured an image of the Great Blue Hole and Lighthouse Reef in March 2009.
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Shiretoko National Park
Published August 13, 2006
Hokkaido’s Shiretoko Peninsula provides mostly temperate Japan with a taste of the Arctic.
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