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This is How Earth Welcomed Back Soyuz

Not a bad re-entry after months on the International Space Station

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London’s Congestion Pricing Plan Is Saving Lives

By charging $17.34 for a trip downtown during peak hours, London has reduced traffic fatalities by 40 percent

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Should People Be Allowed to Boat Through Yellowstone?

Conservationists and recreational paddlers are split on whether to open up remaining National Parks waterways to boaters

A herd of domesticated beefalo in Montana. After interbreeding, free-ranging beefalos currently causing problems in the Grand Canyon appear both physically and genetically close to native bison.

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A Beefalo Invasion Is Causing Trouble in the Grand Canyon

Hundreds of the hybrid animals are drying up water resources and messing with the ecosystem, eliciting calls for culling

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Chilean Volcano Erupts in the Early Morning

The 9,000-foot volcano spewed ash, smoke and lava high into the air

A view of the dense Honduran rain forest.

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Amazing Ruins of a Long Lost City Discovered in Honduras

A scientific expedition into the depths of the Honduran rain forest discovered a lost city

A TV tower on Burnt Island in Fife, Scotland, reaches just 410 feet -- but others of its kind top 2,000

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The Fourth Tallest Man-made Structure Isn’t a Building at All

TV towers and power station chimneys are some less well-known record-breakers in the history of super-tall structures

Spanish cruise ship 'Gemini' enters Havana Harbor. Americans are now legally able to book a cruise to Havana through a Canadian cruise line.

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It's Now Legal to Book a Cruise to Cuba

A Canadian cruise line is allowing Americans to legally book a trip around Cuba

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Statisticians Reveal the Best Place to Wait Out a Zombie Apocalypse

You’ll want to head for the Rocky Mountains

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Would You Live in an Antarctic Penguin Post Office?

Applications soar at post office in Port Lockroy, Antarctica

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Adultery Is Now Legal in South Korea

62 years after the passage of a morality law, spouses can’t be prosecuted for extramarital affairs

A rover developed by Grumman Aircraft Engineering Corporation and considered for use in the early 1970s, not a moon race competitor

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Forget the Race to the Moon. These Rovers Will Race on the Moon.

It's going to be a pretty slow race, however

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Amsterdam Is Out of Bike Parking

The city will create 40,000 new bike parking spaces by 2030

A man walks on a tight rope in the remote mountain village of Tsovkra-1.

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The Russian Village Entirely Populated by Tightrope Walkers

The circus-skill tradition goes back so far in tiny Tsovkra-1 that no one knows quite how or why it started—but it may end before long

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See the Winter of Our Discontent…From Space

NASA photo of the eastern United States confirms it’s really, really cold out there

Row houses in the historic Pullman neighborhood of Chicago

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President Obama Announces a Trio of New National Monuments

The sites include a historic neighborhood in Chicago, a former internment camp in Hawaii and a canyon in Colorado

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2014 Was National Parks’ Most-Visited Year Ever

Last year broke records with over 292 million visits

Climbers in the Khumbu Icefall on Mount Everest.

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Everest Climbers Now Prohibited From Taking One Deadly Route

Nepal announces that the Khumbu Icefall, where 16 sherpa were killed last year, is now off-limits

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Only 1 in 4 Americans Would Take a Free Space Flight

Americans are still skeptical about some aspects of space travel

Robert Sorlie and his team during the 2005 Iditarod race

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Lack of Snow Forced the Iditarod to Move Its Track

Instead of starting in Willow, Alaska, this year, the race will start 300 miles north in Fairbanks

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