Travel & Adventure News

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Four amateur explorers have discovered a mammoth cave in California's Sequoia National Park that scientists are hailing as a major find.

September 26, 2006
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Scale to new heights with this year's winners of the Banff Mountain Photography Competition, and get the photographers' tips for how they created the award-worthy shots.

September 22, 2006
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Get a sneak peek at selected photos of United States rivers, and learn more about the country's vital waterways.

September 18, 2006
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Crocodile meat, lilly pillies, and other wild foods are leaving the bush for Australian supermarkets, creating business opportunities for Aboriginal communities.

September 14, 2006
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Go behind the scenes as conservationists release a captive-bred giant panda into China's bamboo-covered mountains for the first time.

August 21, 2006
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Hear an Everest guide describe the rescue of an ailing climber who had been left for dead and was found hallucinating on a narrow ridge at 28,000 feet (8,534 meters).

August 18, 2006
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Huge hordes of jellyfish are plaguing Mediterranean beaches, stinging tens of thousands of vacationers. Experts blame the invasion on warming seas and overfishing of the jellies' competitors.

August 18, 2006
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Boaters on the Suwannee River are having close encounters with curious creatures—giant Gulf sturgeon that leap out of the water for reasons scientists don't understand.

August 17, 2006
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Watch as a lone male bird tries to steal a meal from another family's turf and winds up locked with another male in a whirling dive bomb.

August 16, 2006
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Take a trip down the Orinoco, and get an inside look at the diversity of life sustained by this vital and vibrant river.

August 15, 2006
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Watch one of Alaska's famous rites of summer, as sockeye salmon face hungry bears and steep falls to mate in the upstream waters where they were born.

August 14, 2006
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Thousands of snakes are shipped by air every week in the U.S. We ask the experts how they keep this creepy cargo from re-creating the mayhem of the new movie Snakes on a Plane.

August 14, 2006
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The Philippine government said an eruption was imminent and began mass evacuations after the Mayon volcano made more ominous rumblings.

August 7, 2006
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Global warming may be a worldwide buzz kill, but it hasn't stopped canny entrepreneurs from launching a new beer brewed with water melted from Greenland's ice cap.

August 3, 2006
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Join National Geographic on a 2002 assignment to explore Fidel Castro's Cuba, which has been closed to U.S. visitors for decades.

August 1, 2006

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