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NATURE VIEWS: GLACIER NATIONAL PARK IN MONTANA

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CBS Sunday Morning (June 29, 2025): Explore things to see and do in Glacier National Park. Established as a National Park in 1910 it is a land of mountain ranges carved by prehistoric ice rivers. It features alpine meadows, deep forests, waterfalls, about 25 glistening glaciers and 200 sparkling lakes. The vistas seen from Going-To-The-Sun Road are breathtaking, a photographer’s paradise. Relatively few miles of road exist in the park’s 1,600 square miles of picturesque landscape, thus preserving its primitive and unspoiled beauty.

Culture, Magazines, Nature, Science, Wildlife

Orion Magazine – Summer 2025 – Nature & Culture

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Summer 2025 Issue - Orion Magazine

ORION MAGAZINE (May 30, 2025): The Summer 2025 Issue features ….

Out of the Ashes

Examined Life – How fungi are surviving—and even thriving—in a warming world

Natural Intelligence

A photo of mushrooms growing out of mushrooms. The photo is taken with a blue background

Mushrooms made the world what it is by Maria Popova

Foodways

Intuitive Eating

A black and white illustration of Merlin Sheldrake, Jeff VanderMeer, and Kaitlin Smith surrounded by pink and brown round abstract shapes

On poison, pleasure, and trust by Erica Berry

A New Naturalism

Four writers reflect on the rhizomatic network of self, society, and ecology

Corey Pressman, Merlin Sheldrake, Kaitlin Smith and Jeff Vandermeer

Nature, Newspapers, Opinion, Politics

The New York Times – Wednesday, Jan. 22, 2025

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Trump Starts Immigration Crackdown, Enlisting the Military and Testing the Law

The president’s Day 1 actions included directives that fly in the face of legal limits on involving the military in domestic operations and the constitutional guarantee of birthright citizenship.

‘A Betrayal, a Mockery’: Police Express Outrage Over Trump’s Jan. 6 Pardons

More than 150 officers from the Capitol Police and the D.C. police were injured when a pro-Trump mob stormed the Capitol four years ago.

Trump Wants to Unleash Energy, as Long as It’s Not Wind or Solar

Legal experts said the president was testing the boundaries of executive power with aggressive orders designed to stop the country from transitioning to renewable energy.

Trump Is at the Peak of His Power. The Question Is for How Long.

Republicans are defined today more by a single man than perhaps either party has been in decades, even as the clock starts ticking on Donald Trump’s tenure.

Magazines, Nature, Research, Science, Uncategorized

Science: Nature Magazine – January 9, 2025 Preview

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Volume 637 Issue 8045

NATURE MAGAZINE (January 8, 2025): The latest issue features ‘Skin Deep’ – How the crocodile’s head got its scales…

This digital-memory device keeps its cool even at 600 °C

A battery-like technology uses a metal called tantalum to create an equivalent of digital 0s and 1s.

Fancy birds decorate nests with a natural pattern: snakeskin

The use of shed skins might help to ward off predators, experiments suggest.

A blood test detects aged cells

Proteins could serve as biomarkers for senescent cells, which have stopped dividing but have not yet died.

That Christmas jumper is a marvel of complicated physics

Models and experiments demonstrate what happens when a knitted fabric is deformed.

Culture, History, Magazines, Nature, Reviews

Smithsonian Magazine – January 2025 Preview

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SMITHSONIAN MAGAZINE (December 30, 2024): The latest issue features ‘In Search of the World’s Smallest Monkey’ – A journey into Ecuador’s remote forests to spy on adorable, and suprisingly chatty, pygmy marmosets.

Seventy-Seven Fascinating Finds Revealed in 2024, From a Mysterious ‘Anomaly’ Near the Great Pyramid of Giza to a Missing Portrait of Henry VIII

How an Experiment to Amplify Light in Hospital Operating Rooms Led to the Accidental Invention of the Snow Globe

The origins of the decoration lie in Vienna’s 17th district, where the inventor’s descendants are still making them for collectors around the world

Animals, Nature, Travel, Videos, Wildlife

Previews: ‘Leonardo da Vinci’ – A Film By Ken Burns

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CBS Sunday Morning (October 27, 2024): Acclaimed filmmaker Ken Burns, renowned for his documentaries on such topics as the Civil War, baseball, jazz and the Statue of Liberty, has now focused on 15th century Italian artist and intellectual Leonardo da Vinci.

Correspondent David Pogue talks with Burns and his producing partners, daughter Sarah Burns and son-in-law David McMahon, about their PBS documentary on the man Burns calls “one of the most incredibly interesting human beings who has ever walked the Earth.”

Animals, Nature, Travel, Videos, Wildlife

Ocean Views: Manta Rays In Quintana Roo, Mexico

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CBS Sunday Morning (October 20, 2024): We leave you this Sunday morning under the sea in Quintana Roo, Mexico, where the Manta rays are enjoying breakfast. Videographer: Mauricio Handler.

Quintana Roo is a Mexican state on the Yucatán Peninsula. On its Caribbean coast, the town of Tulum offers seaside Mayan ruins, sandy beaches and undersea caverns. To the northeast, the resort city of Cancún is known for its nightlife, Nichupté Lagoon nature reserve and long beaches with coral reefs. 

Animals, Nature, Travel, Videos, Wildlife

Wyoming Views: Wildlife At The Yellowstone River

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CBS Sunday Morning (October 13, 2024): We leave you this Sunday morning along the Yellowstone River at Yellowstone National Park in Wyoming.

The Yellowstone River is the last major undammed river in the lower 48 states, flowing 671 miles (1080 km) from its source southeast of Yellowstone into the Missouri River and then, eventually, into the Atlantic Ocean. It begins in the Absaroka Mountain Range on Yount Peak. The river enters the park and meanders through the Thorofare region into Yellowstone Lake. It leaves the lake at Fishing Bridge and flows north over LeHardys Rapids and through Hayden Valley.

Videographer: Mauricio Handler.

Animals, Documentaries, Nature, Videos, Wildlife

Alaska Wilderness: ‘Katmai – A Land Reborn From Ash’

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National Geographic (October 10, 2024): Explore  Katmai, a land reborn from volcanic ash, and observe the vivid lives of bears, salmon, plovers and coastal wolves that call it home.

Katmai National Park and Preserve is on a peninsula in southern Alaska. Its wild landscapes span tundra, forests, lakes and mountains. The park is known for the many brown bears that are drawn to the abundant salmon in Brooks Falls. Lookout platforms at adjacent Brooks Camp offer close-up views of the bears. The Valley of Ten Thousand Smokes is an area of lava flows and ash formed by a massive volcanic eruption.