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Thursday, December 08, 2022 | Jumada al-ula 13, 1444 H
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Land And Sea

The cool, wild and very remote Andaman Islands

We were stepping carefully through a dripping wet forest at the edge of the beach, at night. Above us, 150-foot-tall trees towered, their canopy blotting out the stars. I could hear bats chittering and waves crashing....

The lighthouse on Ross Island, near Port Blair, in the Andaman Islands in India in November 2022. (Poras Chaudhary/The New York Times)
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Dried up mangrove trees along an embankment in the village of Gobardhanpur, India, March 6, 2022. (Saumya Khandelwal/The New York Times)
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This picture taken on June 10, 2021 shows an aerial view of Libya's Farwa Island, about 170 kilometres west of the capital and close to the border with Tunisia. Once famed for its exceptional wildlife, Libya's Farwa island risks becoming just another victim of lawlessness in the war-ravaged North African nation, activists struggling to save it warn. An uninhabited 13-kilometre-long (eight mile) sandbar cut off at high tide in far western Libya, Farwa appears picture-postcard idyllic, with scattered date palms on white sandy beaches and ringed by the sparkling Mediterranean Sea. (Photo by Mahmud TURKIA / AFP)
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People and Culture

Andrei Stenin International Press Photo Contest 2022 opens for entries

MOSCOW: The 8th Andrei Stenin International Press Photo Contest (http://stenincontest.com) is now open for entries in Moscow. The contest bears the name of Andrei Stenin, a photojournalist at the Rossiya Segodnya media...

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Flora and Fauna

The Amazon: a paradise lost?

Seen from the sky, the Amazon is an endless expanse of deep green, a place where life explodes from every surface, broken only by the blue rivers snaking across it. Endless, that is until it isn't.Fly toward the edges of...

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Laly Joseph, plant conservationist and ecosystem gardener at the Gurukula Botanical Sanctuary (GBS), points to a lithophyte plant growing under a rock at the GBS in Kerala's Wayanad District.
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