Six on Geography and Science: Why Whales Got So Big; Porcupine Salt Cravings; Solar Power Is Burning Bright. But It’s Hardly

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Six on Geography and Science: Why Whales Got So Big; Porcupine Salt Cravings; Solar Power Is Burning Bright. But It’s Hardly Twilight for Fossil Fuels; Evolution On Trial: The Weird Backstory Of The Scopes Monkey Case; UK scientists unable to provide agent source - but Russia still blamed; Tomb paintings hold clues to the ancient Egyptian desire to bring order out of chaos;

Why Whales Got So Big

"It’s often said that the ocean releases them from the constraints of life on land. It’s actually the opposite."





Porcupine Salt Cravings | The Outside Story





Solar Power Is Burning Bright. But It’s Hardly Twilight for Fossil Fuels.






Tomb paintings hold clues to the ancient Egyptian desire to bring order out of chaos



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Bullfrogs can grow very large..jpg
Ancient graves like Dolmen Pedra da Orca in Gouveia, Portugal may have also enhanced the view of stars..jpg
A woman in a barren field on the edge of Befoly, a village once surrounded by trees. Until they were all gone, Befoly supplied charcoal to Toliara..jpg
A woman in Toliara, Madagascar, cooking with charcoal, which is cleaner and easier to use than firewood, and cheaper and more readily available than gas or electricity.jpg
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BANANA Workmen loading bananas at La Ceiba, Honduras..jpg
Bananas by fast train, 1890 Greeks in Chicago (3).jpg
A view of the supermoon in Vila Pouca de Aguiar, Portugal.jpg
1584 map of Africa by Abraham Ortelius.jpg
An artisan casts heated glass into shape at the Kitengela Hot Glass studio in the outskirts of Kenya's capital Nairobi.jpg
An artist’s interpretation of Sinosauropteryx, a dinosaur that researchers say had a camouflage pattern on its feathers similar to that of modern mammals, like gazelles and pronghorns.jpg
An artistic rendering of explorers seeking the Northwest Passage..jpg
An artist's impression of ripples in the fabric of space-time formed from the collision of two black holes.jpg
An Atlantic Puffin holds a mouthful of sand eels on the island of Skomer, off the coast of Pembrokeshire, Wales.jpg
A farmer carries cocoa pods at a cocoa farm in Agboville, Ivory Coast,.jpg
A farmer collecting khat in Infranz, a village in the Amhara region of Ethiopia. The young and underemployed are increasingly chewing khat.jpg
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A Balinese man watches Mount Agung volcano almost covered with clouds as he stands at a temple in Karangasem, Bali, Indonesia. An increasing frequency of tremors from the volcano indicates magma is continuing to move.jpg
A handcrafted and hand painted globe in progress.jpg
A harrier flies over a meadow hunting for food near the village of Kremenets, Belarus,.jpg
A group of friends with their 1,200 sheep are some of the dozens of shepherds who spend their summers in the Tusheti mountains. It will take them three days to move from their village down to the safety of the plains.jpg
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A pine forest affected by a weevil plague on the outskirts of Tegucigalpa in Honduras.....jpg
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