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Changing Chukotka
For the hunters of the Chukchi Peninsula, climate change presents a very real danger to their livelihoods. As sea ice deteriorates in the region, scientists are seeing declines in ice-associated marine mammals such as seals and walruses, both targete
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The Karakoram Anomaly Decoded
It is midsummer in Pakistan’s northern region of Gilgit-Baltistan, on the treacherous and unforgiving Baltoro Glacier, the second longest in the Karakoram Range and one of the largest outside the polar regions. We are trekking our way to the amphithe
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Pink Himalayan Salt
According to local legend, it was none other than the exalted historical figure Alexander the Great (356–323 BCE) who discovered pink salt, otherwise known as Himalayan salt, when he noticed his horses licking the salt on the ground. However, the fir

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