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These Big, Fierce Birds Found Love in Australia—and Laid the First Southern Cassowary Eggs at the Adelaide Zoo in 34 Years.

Zoo staffers don’t know whether the bright green eggs are viable and will ultimately hatch into chicks.

Smithsonian Magazine

Nigeria drove thousands of gold miners from a national park. But can it keep them out?

A military-backed operation shut down a major illegal gold mining site in Gashaka-Gumti National Park, driving more than 4,000 miners from Nigeria’s l...

Mongabay

Shanghai's 'Audacious' New Opera House Just Opened Its Doors—and a Gravity-Defying Staircase—to the Public.

The riverfront opera house is Shanghai's latest cultural statement. It features three performance halls and is designed to be accessible to everyone, ...

Smithsonian Magazine

A Farmer in Egypt Stumbled Upon a Pink Stone and Called the Authorities. They Found the Remains of Two Colossal Statues of Ramses II Beneath the Property.

Archaeologists recovered the head of one statue that might have measured nearly 28 feet tall.

CBS News

Artificial mangrove roots offer a stopgap for Thailand’s eroding coastline.

Residents of Phra Samut Chedi, one of Thailand’s most erosion-prone districts, have long struggled against coastal erosion. It’s located in the muddy ...

Mongabay
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