The last ice age began roughly 120,000 years ago and ended about 11,500 years ago, but plenty of signs of this last period of ice domination still exist all over Earth. The Midwestern United States remains flattened by the last ice age’s towering glaciers, Many new apex predators have replaced woolly mammoths and saber-toothed tigers—and
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In Italy, even the most unassuming hole in the wall is likely to serve up the most amazing of meals. But when my family and I recently re-affirmed this enduring cliché after pulling off the highway looking for lunch, we accidentally also stumbled into the extremely small homeland of one of the world’s rarest fruits.
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A World War I submarine that sank nearly 110 years ago has been leaking explosive pollutants into the North Sea for decades. What’s more, ocean researchers say the problem may worsen over time—not only near the German vessel itself, but at thousands of similar shipwrecks. On April 19, 1917, Germany’s UC-30 submarine was attempting to
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