National Geographic Kids - UK (2022-03)

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Albert José Jones (top) has been on more than 7,000 dives and is con- sidered the godfather of Black scuba diving in the U.S. He ...

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recaptured and enslaved. But some disappeared into the hills, into oral history and myth. Some likely mixed into the local BriBr ...

Pollee and Rose Allen. “If that doesn’t get you excited, understanding that the DNA resides in you, I don’t know what will.” In ...

‘THERE IS SOMETHING ABOUT THESE SHIPS, HOW THEY MOVED TRADITIONS, HOW THEY MOVED CULTURE.’ AYANA FLEWELLEN Archaeologists Justin ...

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the victims and benefactors of an unjust society to tell their stories, that meets every Thursday. Historical markers to African ...

hearing my name, tells me that she is married to my uncle Teeny’s stepson. How did I not know this place? Many African cultures ...

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At Davos, Switzerland, in late October, a skier navigates a cross- country trail made of artificial snow pro- duced the previous ...

As the climate has warmed since the 19th century—and espe- cially in the past few decades—the Alps have lost two-thirds of the i ...

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Precious snow is covered with fabric to protect it from melt- ing over the summer at Diavolezza, a Swiss resort. Natural snow ha ...

the tractor-size groomer backs over a 40-foot-tall mound of compacted snow, unrolling a bolt of white fabric. On top of the moun ...

fabric-covered snow depot like this ablaze, and 30 firefighters battled the flames for hours. Snow is that precious these days. ...

Swiss glaciologist (and amateur violinist) Felix Keller, who grew up near the Morteratsch Glacier, has a plan to stop its retrea ...

Keller’s plan is to recycle glacial meltwater into snow. Here his team tests a prototype of one of the “snow cables” that, hangi ...

Where tourists now walk on a suspension bridge, several hun- dred feet above a melt water torrent, they used to walk across ice ...