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The scimitar-horned oryx was declared extinct in the wild in 2000 while zoos quietly kept a herd alive, and after crates of the antelope began flying from Abu Dhabi to Chad in 2016, around 600 now graze the Sahel — enough for the species to be downgraded to merely endangered (opens the original)
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For about a quarter of a century, the scimitar-horned oryx existed everywhere except the one place it belonged. A striking desert antelope — pale, with long curved horns that arc back like the sabres it’s named for — it once roamed North Africa’s grasslands in vast herds. Then hunting and drought erased it from the wild, and in 2000 the IUCN made it official: Extinct in the Wild. There were still thousands of them alive. Just not one of them free. “Extinct in the Wild” is one of the strangest ca
Venice began charging day-trippers 5 euros to walk in on its busiest days in 2024, checking QR codes at the train station of a city that now has more hotel beds than residents — and by the second year over 720,000 visitors were paying to enter the first city on Earth you have to book (opens the original)
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On the morning of April 25, 2024, tourists stepping off the train at Venice’s Santa Lucia station found something no city had ever asked of them before: to get in, they needed a ticket — not for a museum or a monument, but for the streets themselves. Stewards in yellow vests stood at the station checking QR codes. Day visitors who hadn’t paid a 5-euro access fee, and couldn’t prove an exemption, were in the wrong. Venice had become, arguably, the first city on Earth you have to book. The fee was
Hundreds of tourists began lining up at 4am for one last climb of Uluru before Australia banned it in October 2019, closing a route where at least 37 people had died — and workers started unbolting the 1964 chain handhold as soon as the last climber came down (opens the original)
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Before dawn on October 25, 2019, hundreds of people gathered in the dark at the base of a giant red rock in the center of Australia, some of them having queued since 4am. They had come from around the world for a single purpose: to climb Uluru one last time, on the final day it would ever be legal. By the next afternoon the climb was closed forever. And within hours of the last climber stepping down, work crews moved in to erase the route — starting with the chain. For most of the twentieth cent
Some fifth-generation Iowa farmers have stopped raising corn, soybeans and cattle since wind turbines went up on their land — they lease the fields to other people to farm while collecting $7,000 to $10,000 per tower a year, and a few now call themselves wind farmers (opens the original)
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Drive across northern Iowa and the horizon is full of slowly turning blades — more than 6,000 turbines now stand in the state’s corn and soybean country, and Iowa generates around 60 percent of its electricity from wind, a bigger share than anywhere else in the country. Underneath those turbines, something quiet has changed about what it means to farm. For a growing number of Iowa landowners, the most reliable crop their land produces isn’t grown at all. It’s harvested from the air. The reason i
In 1971, Soviet engineers set fire to a collapsed gas crater in the Turkmen desert expecting it to burn itself out within weeks, and more than 50 years later the 230-foot pit is still burning day and night — locals now call it the Door to Hell (opens the original)
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In the middle of the Karakum Desert, one of the emptiest places on Earth, there is a hole in the ground that has been on fire for the entire lifetime of most people reading this. It is a near-perfect circle, roughly 230 feet across and about 100 feet deep, its floor and walls covered in hundreds of small flames with a few larger ones roaring at the center. At night the glow is visible for miles across the flat black desert. Locals call it the Darvaza crater, after the nearby village — but the wo
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