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Black truffle production booms in Spain
AFP, Published on 15/12/2023
» SARRIóN (SPAIN) - When Jose Soriano was a child, the hills near the village of Sarrion in Spain's remote and sparsely populated eastern province of Teruel were mostly uncultivated, covered in brush and rocks.
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The fight to save 'sacred' Carpathian forests from loggers
AFP, Published on 02/08/2023
» CARPATHIANS - Vast gaps in the forest canopy are visible from above Romania's Carpathian mountains, while stumps studding the ground are reminders of the trees chopped into logs and piled beside dirt roads.
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Inuit lessons for soldiers in the Arctic
Sunday Spotlight, Published on 25/06/2023
» A moon dog hung low over the horizon. It showed up on the first day of the Canadian soldiers' patrol, and the Inuit rangers guiding them in the country's far north spotted it right away: Ice crystals in the clouds were bending the light, making two illusory moons appear in the sky.
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S.Africa clinic hopes to save penguins' future
AFP, Published on 14/06/2023
» GQEBERHA (SOUTH AFRICA) - A small fish is dangled under the beak of an emaciated penguin at a South African clinic, to whet the bird's appetite.
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Ukraine reports village retaken, first gain of offensive
AFP, Published on 11/06/2023
» KYIV (UKRAINE) - Kyiv announced on Sunday that Ukrainian forces have retaken a village in the war-torn country's southeast, the first reported gain of the offensive.
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Melbourne's flying foxes get their own sprinklers
Sunday Spotlight, Published on 23/04/2023
» MELBOURNE: Every evening, tens of thousands of grey-headed flying foxes fan out across the sky above the city of Melbourne.
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Ursa Major: Voting starts in Fat Bear Week
AFP, Published on 06/10/2022
» LOS ANGELES - Americans are weighing their options this week and deciding where to cast their ballot in the only contest that really matters: Fat Bear Week.
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Big trouble in Little Loving County, Texas
Sunday Spotlight, Published on 14/08/2022
» In America's least populated county, the rusting ruins of houses, oil drilling operations and an old gas station interrupt the sun-blanched landscape. A hand-painted wooden sign still promises good food at "Chuck's Wagon" to drivers along State Road 302, though the proprietor died months ago and the wagon is gone.
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Rainforest junkyard a lifeline
Sunday Spotlight, Published on 24/07/2022
» The clangs of the men's chisels and hammers were deafening as they dismantled a rusty truck, the din only fading as it reached the dense forest encircling them.
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Teaching cranes self-sufficiency
Sunday Spotlight, Published on 03/04/2022
» The dance of the red-crowned cranes commenced, an impromptu pas de deux.
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