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Russi, Mine. No, mine A magpie and a Steeler’s sea eagle compete for a beached salmon. This Kamchatka Peninsula lake is the spawning ground for some 2 million salmon per year. Photograph by Klaus Nigge |
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Washington, District of Columbia A Bird of Paradise plant unfurls in a pattern reminiscent of the nature paintings of Georgia O’Keeffe. |
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National Park, Brazil Organ Music: Only about an hour’s drive from Rio di Janeiro, a blanket of velvet green unfurls beneath sky-scratching peaks in the park whose name means “range of the organs. Photograph by Frans Lanting |
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New Mexico, Subterranean majesty A caver is dwarfed by calcite formations in the Pearlsian Gulf Room, mirrored by a clear pond |
