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The heyday of travel documentaries is fading fast. Are we resigned to a future of tick-list TV and celeb-driven ‘adventures’?
I trekked through the Sahara Desert with my in-laws after only meeting them a few times. I was nervous, but it was a ...
Not finding them, it finally made its way into the desert vegetation, where I hope it will hang around. For gopher snakes are so named because they make excellent rodent control. While snakes are ...
This beautiful desert snake is a venomous viper found in the Sinai Peninsula and northern Africa. It’s a surprisingly small snake, growing only 8-14 inches, but what it lacks in size it makes up for ...
Statistics on deaths at sea vary considerably and are themselves deeply contested, and geographical designations of 'the Sahara' or 'the Mediterranean' are anything but specific — but that has not ...
Summer in Memphis brings increased risk of encountering potentially dangerous critters. Venomous snakes like copperheads, while not usually fatal, require caution. Saddleback caterpillars, black ...
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How Geography Turned the Sahara Green
The Earth's climate is in a constant state of change based on its position relative to the sun. This relationship means that as the planet's relationship to the sun changes, unexpected series of ...
Tim Friede was feeling particularly down on the day after the September 11 attacks, so he went to his basement and let two of the world's deadliest snakes bite him. Man who let snakes bite him 200 ...
RABAT - Ghana said on Thursday it views a Moroccan autonomy plan as the sole basis to settle the Western Sahara dispute within the framework of the UN, aligning itself with a growing number of ...
TYLER, Texas (KETK) — Every year around this time, the Sahara Desert in Africa experiences peak emissions that sends dust particles across the Atlantic Ocean, causing air quality changes in East Texas ...