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TheFirstHammer on MSN9d
A Forgotten Technique of Palmyra Fruit Harvesting Revealed
Curious about how Palmyra fruit is harvested and transformed into jaggery? In this fascinating farming documentary, we take ...
Smithsonian Magazine9d
Biologists Rejoice as Extremely Rare Guam Kingfishers Lay Their First Wild Eggs in Nearly 40 Years
The brightly colored birds are extinct in the wild, having disappeared from their native Guam in 1988 due to the introduction ...
KMUW14d
Syria hopes tourists will return to Palmyra, a World Heritage Site ravaged by war
The 11-foot-high stone Lion of al-Lat, damaged outside the Palmyra museum by ISIS, was pieced together and is now on display in the Damascus museum's garden, amid orange trees filled with songbirds. A ...
Hawai‘i Public Radio8d
Endangered birds return to the wild at Palmyra Atoll after decades of conservation work
Catherine Cruz reports on the sihek, an endangered bird that recently returned to the wild and laid eggs at their new Pacific ...