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Pakistan climber cleanses K2 as shrine to fallen father
AFP, Published on 10/08/2023
» K2 BASECAMP (PAKISTAN) - Gazing up from K2 Basecamp, Sajid Ali Sadpara sees Earth's second-highest mountain, his father's final resting place, and a blight of litter on the furthest reaches of the natural world.
World's 'oldest' tree able to reveal planet's secrets
AFP, Published on 22/04/2023
» In a forest in southern Chile, a giant tree has survived for thousands of years and is in the process of being recognised as the oldest in the world.
Rescued from extinction, bison rediscover Romania mountains
AFP, Published on 26/10/2021
» ARMENIS (ROMANIA) - Hoof prints in the mud, tree bark nibbled away: even if the newest residents of Romania's Carpathian mountain forest shy away from visitors, their traces are there for those who know where to look.
A 'constant wrench': parenthood from behind bars
AFP, Published on 03/05/2021
» MARSEILLE - Nine-year-old Shadene's face lights up; her father who is in a Marseille prison has just appeared through a door on the other side of the boxy, tiny room.
In Texas, a rancher swaps his oil pumps for wind turbines
AFP, Published on 20/04/2021
» SAN ANGELO (UNITED STATES) - Cattle rancher Bobby Helmers cranes to listen as the blades of his six giant wind turbines slice through the air in the same Texas fields that once echoed with the sounds of oil pumps.
US sturgeon scientist accused in caviar scheme
AFP, Published on 19/02/2021
» WASHINGTON - The fish eggs were supposed to be for research, not for eating -- but a US biologist reportedly known as Wisconsin's "sturgeon general" was hatching another plan.
India sends 'man-eater' tiger to lifetime in captivity
AFP, Published on 08/06/2020
» NEW DELHI: A tiger blamed for killing three people will spend the rest of its life in captivity, Indian officials said Sunday, saying the big cat was "too dangerous" to be allowed to roam free.
South Sudan: an unexplored Eden of biodiversity
AFP, Published on 26/05/2020
» BOMA (SOUTH SUDAN) - The light plane banked sharply to circle back over the plains. The pilot had spotted something below: antelope, first one, then many, the stragglers of a million-strong migration across this vast wilderness.
End of an era: Bangladesh's last Armenian dies
AFP, Published on 09/05/2020
» DHAKA - Michael Joseph Martin, Bangladesh's last Armenian, has died aged 89, bringing an end to the more than 300-year presence of the once thriving and powerful minority Christian community.
Peru prison riot over coronavirus fears leaves nine dead
AFP, Published on 29/04/2020
» LIMA - Nine inmates were killed and scores of guards wounded when rioting broke out at a prison in Lima after two inmates died from COVID-19, authorities in Peru said Tuesday.