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In the land of Four Corners, where Utah, Colorado, Arizona and New Mexico meet, geological extravaganzas are the norm - hence many national parks and monuments dot the map. Even among these, the Canyon de Chelly (pronounced 'de Shay') is special ...

In the heart of a steamy rainforest, Stony Creek winds a gently sloping course through tangled trees and shrubs. Still dripping from the night's rain, palm fronds jostle in the undergrowth, and high overhead a canopy of leaves filters the early ...

Glistening white dunes; contoured and shaped by the warm current into evenly rounded arcs, extend endlessly before the eye of a beholder in the White Sands. But this is uncommon sand - not the typical quartz, but gypsum; commonly called white ...

On Friday, 1 July 2022, Portugal joined the list of nations to lift all COVID-related entry restraints for tourists; without needing to show a vaccination or recovery report. A senior official said that the number of Coronavirus infections and deaths has ...

Doctor James Hector, a geologist exploring the Bow Valley in the Canadian Rocky Mountains in 1858, was kicked violently in the chest by a packhorse while he helped the horse across a river. When Hector was found unconscious by his Stoney ...

For nearly six months of the year, the Mackenzie Delta on the Northwest coast of Canada is barely recognisable as a river delta. It is blanketed by an icy mantle that merges its islands and waterways with the frozen coastal plain. ...

Few of the great news stories of the early 20th century enjoyed such immediate reportage as the Katmai mountain story. On the steamship, Dora, bound for the port of Kodiak on Kodiak Island. Alaska, on June 6, 1912, the captain logged, ...

World Snake Day is an annual event dedicated to the study of snakes and their conservation. It is celebrated on 16th July every year, to raise awareness about the dangers of snakes and to promote awareness of the importance of biodiversity. ...

Approached from the north, the Victoria Falls announce themselves as a cloud of vapour hurled, grumbling loudly at its own immensity, into the African sky. A local tribe gave the falls the name Mosi-oa-Tunya - 'The smoke that thunders'. Soaring 1600ft ...

Nowhere in history can be found a more fruitful marriage of sublime courage and naked greed than in the personalities of the Conquistadores, the Spanish conquerors of Central and South America. In 1535. with Peru subjugated, and already rich beyond all ...

This eerie wasteland of salt-encrusted clay stretching away to distant horizons is known to the Ovambo people who live there as Etosha - 'the lake of mirages' or 'the place of dry water. Seen from the air it appears ...

The well-equipped come by light aircraft. The less so, or the more adventurous, approach the great wall of Algeria's Tassili mountains by four-wheel-drive truck, crossing gravel, rock and shifting sand where the air shudders above a ground temperature that can reach ...