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Environment

Could Flashing Lights Help Avert Conflict Between Herders and Pumas?

By using foxlights, which mimic a person walking with a flashlight, researchers were able to cut down big cat attacks on llamas and alpacas in the Andes.

Aymara indigenous people perform traditional Andes highlands folk dances during the Anata Andino harvest festival in Oruro, Bolivia, on February 8th, 2018. During the harvest festival, native peasant farmers from different Bolivian highlands communities dance in the streets of Oruro giving thanks to Pachamama (Mother Earth) for the abundant crops.
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Viewfinder: Anata Andino Harvest Festival in Bolivia

Aymara indigenous people perform traditional Andes highlands folk dances during the Anata Andino harvest festival in Oruro, Bolivia, on February 8th, 2018.

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Environment

Peruvian Communities Reel From Stronger El Niño

Talking to the locals in Lurigancho-Chosica, Peru, after a devastating season of landslides

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Environment

Climate Change Is Upending the Ecology of Lakes

These tropical lakes are a crucial source of water—and climate change has them in jeopardy.

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Social Justice

What Dreams Still Come: An Old-Fashioned Explorer in Modern Times

How to be an old-fashioned explorer—intrepid, obsessive, khaki-clad—without conquering anything. The secret life of Keith Muscutt.

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Social Justice

Tomb Raiders Foiled: How Common Is Theft at Archaeological Sites?

Archaeologists working in Peru sat on the find of a lifetime for months, keeping the artifacts safe from thieves.