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The largest national forest in the US spans 17 million acres and hides the world's biggest temperate rainforest

Tongass National Forest in Alaska spans seventeen million acres of diverse terrain. This vast area contains the world's largest intact temperate rainforest ecosystem. Its landscape features rainforests, glaciers, islands, and ocean channels. Abundant wildlife, including bears, salmon, eagles, and whales, inhabits this region. Indigenous communities and visitor attractions are also…

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French planners once believed turning part of the Sahara into a sea could make the desert fertile

Engineers once planned to flood Sahara Desert basins with seawater. François Roudaire and Donald Mackenzie proposed creating large inland seas. These ambitious projects aimed to alter climates and boost productivity. However, surveys revealed engineering challenges and uncertain environmental benefits. The plans were abandoned, but the concept inspired later mega-engineering ideas.

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10 highest mountains in the United States: From Denali in Alaska to Mount Hunter

America's tallest mountains aren't spread across the country but they're all found in Alaska. From the towering Denali to the rugged Mount Hunter, these peaks rise high above glaciers, forests and vast wilderness, creating some of North America's most breathtaking landscapes. They are not only the highest summits in the…

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Why is the Caspian Sea called a ‘sea’ if it's actually the world’s largest lake

The Caspian Sea occupies an unusual place on the map. It carries the name of a sea, stretches beyond the horizon in every direction from many points along its shoreline, and contains salt water rather than fresh. Yet geographers generally place it in a different category altogether. Despite its immense…

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10 largest island countries in the world: Indonesia, Japan, Papua New Guinea among the biggest island nations

Standing back from a world map, the outline of land against water starts to look less tidy than it first appears. Some countries are stretched across hundreds or even thousands of fragments, scattered like broken glass across vast stretches of ocean. Others sit almost entirely on a single mass of…

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World’s cleanest ocean: What makes its 40 million square kilometres so different from the rest of Earth’s waters

Far from the shipping corridors and crowded industrial coastlines of the Northern Hemisphere, the South Atlantic Ocean stretches across a quieter part of the planet. Its waters connect South America with Africa, covering enormous distances where human presence becomes sparse and maritime traffic thins out considerably. That relative isolation has…

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