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A New York City Airport is Building a Luxury Terminal Just for Animals

Pets and livestock will soon travel in high style through JFK

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Think Ocean Water is Gross? Sand Is Way Grosser

New research shows that microbes take longer to decay in sand than at sea

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There’s Now Wifi on Mount Fuji

Hiking boots. Water bottle. Laptop?

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How Did Nobody Notice Five Million Pounds of Rock Fall Off Half Dome?

The park is always changing, but this time nobody realized it

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Conservationists Want You to Stop Building Rock Piles

Cairns have a long history and purpose, one that newer stacks sometimes subvert

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Obama Just Established Three New National Monuments Covering Over a Million Acres

Art, fossils and natural beauty

Visitors at the National Building Museum in Washington, D.C., can take a trip to the seaside inside.

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Washington D.C. Just Got a 10,000 Square Foot Ball Pit

A giant ball pit exhibit allows National Building Museum visitors to experience an indoor ocean

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The Russian Government is Teaching its Citizens Selfie Safety

A rash of injuries while taking selfies prompted the new campaign

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Why Is there Wine on the UNESCO World Heritage List?

Bordeaux, Champagne wine regions get world heritage designations

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This is What Happened When an Australian City Gave Trees Email Addresses

Trees get fan mail and even write back to Melburnian residents

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There’s Still (Filthy, Disgusting, Not-Yet-Melted) Snow in Boston Right Now

The detritus of Boston’s most severe winter ever has yet to melt away

Some ants, like the unidentified species above, take lazy breaks while others work.

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Despite Their Industrious Reputation, Some Ants Are Super Lazy

Research suggests that some worker ants excel at inactivity

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There’s More Bourbon in Kentucky Right now Than any Other Time in the Last 40 Years

Whiskey lovers, take note: the state currently boasts 5.7 million barrels of aging bourbon

In a new video released by the WWF, viewers can glide through the Great Barrier Reef on the back of a sea turtle.

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Researchers Strapped a Go-Pro to a Sea Turtle, and Here’s What They Got

See the Great Barrier Reef from a turtle's view

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SpaceX Failure Puts Dozens of Satellites on Hold

Recent losses have left other SpaceX customers in limbo

An artist’s illustration of the Prandtl-m flying above the surface of Mars

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This Boomerang-Shaped Aircraft Could be the First to Fly on Mars

The lightweight glider would search for potential landing spots to be used by a future manned mission to Mars

A view of Butterfly Valley in Turkey

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This Beautiful Valley in Turkey is Home to 100 Species of Butterflies

The valley's remote location keeps the butterflies happy and thriving

Lesser spotted eagle (Clanga pomarina)

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Germany is Turning its Old Military Bases Into Nature Reserves

While downsizing the military, Germany sets aside land for wildlife

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Move Over, Clooney: This Japanese Gorilla is the Internet’s Newest Heartthrob

Shabani’s sexy looks are responsible for a spike in zoo attendance

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Here’s Why Scientists Want to Flood the Grand Canyon

Without sediment flowing through the canyon, it loses sandbars vital to the river ecosystem

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