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Algeria, Africa’s largest country, is throwing its doors open to record numbers of visitors. Roman ruins and trekking through ...

Grass fires burn far more American homes each year than forest fires. In southern Arizona, communities fight fires that never touch a tree.

To the visitors’ surprise, there is a virtual pharmacy in plants, plus a few freshwater ponds and even rain one night in the dry winter. “It’s a myth that the desert has no water,” Baika says.

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