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On Permian shoals the damp chalk glimmers

On Permian shoals the damp chalk glimmers With the purple mother-of-pearl of an ammonite. It is the gleam of ancient dawns turned to stone, Time has grown horny. Here lie hidden The bones of the beast-like. Their decline Preceded the flowering of the dinosaurs, But it did

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Adam and Eve in the Garden of Eden

Jan Brueghel the Elder, 1615

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A Collection of Cats from World Culture by the English Artist Susan Herbert

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King Charles III Opens a Path Bearing His Own Name at the Seven Sisters National Nature Reserve in Seaford, East Sussex

The King Charles III Trail is a new walking route of 2,700 miles running along the entire coast of England. From Newhaven the trail skirts Seaford Bay, passes through Tide Mills to the Seaford seafront, then heads out to the chalk cliffs of Seaford Head, the Seven Sisters and

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A Black Horse Amid Chaos

A black horse amid chaos. Kuwait, 1991 Photo by Steve McCurry

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The Zhiguli Hills on the Volga in the 1880s and 1890s

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Photographs taken by Maxim Dmitriev in the 1900s near the source of the Volga

The officially recognised source of the Volga is a marshy area on the Valdai Hills in the Tver Region, near the village of Volgoverkhovye. It is a small spring at an altitude of about 228 metres above sea level. From a scientific point of view, the notion of a "

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The Children and the Young Raven

The children found an injured young raven in the forest and nursed it back to health. It became quite tame and lived in the geologists' camp until the middle of summer. Shortly before the camp was due to move from the Arkhangelsk Region to Komi, as if sensing the

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"Snow Spirits"

The Chinese photographer Wei Anqing, 2025. The photograph was taken on a phone camera

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General Grant, the Giant Sequoia in Grant Grove in Sequoia National Park, Which Has Stood on This Spot Since the Days of Constantine in Rome

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The wind has brought from afar a hint of a song of spring, somewhere a patch of sky has opened, bright and deep

The wind has brought from afar A hint of a song of spring, Somewhere, bright and deep, A patch of sky has opened. In this bottomless azure In the twilight of approaching spring The winter storms wept, Starry dreams hovered. Timidly, darkly and deeply My strings wept. The wind has

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I Should Like to Express My Profound Gratitude to the Government of Kazakhstan: the North Aral Sea Is Being Reborn, and Its Volume Has Grown by an Impressive 42%!

Not so long ago the Aral was the scene of one of the most destructive ecological catastrophes on the planet, but today its partial remnant, the Small Aral Sea, the part of the basin that lies within Kazakhstan, is becoming a symbol of hope that not all of humanity'