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Can’t Get Enough of Canyonlands 

For someone who can’t get enough of a place, I certainly don’t go there very often. I went maybe thirteen years ago to visit friends living in Moab, Utah, and to watch the Perseid meteor shower on a moonless night in Arches National Park. It is not that far from my home, really, as far as western distances go – just over 300 miles away, barely five hours and change. My friends still live there. Shafer trail takes off near Island in the Sky visitor center - La Sal Mountains in [...]

Were There Three Major Rivers in the Sahara During the Last Interglacial? 

Three ancient river systems, now buried, may have created viable routes for human migration across the Sahara to the Mediterranean region about 100,000 years ago, according to research published September 11 in the open access journal PLOS ONE by Tom Coulthard from the University of Hull, UK, and colleagues from other institutions. Simulating paleoclimates in the region, the