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The climate of the Galapagos Islands is going in the opposite direction of the rest of the world. It is cooling and that is allowing the ecosystem to thrive. But that may not last. source

[ad_1] A few hours’ drive south of Anchorage, the Kenai National Wildlife Refuge is an Alaska in miniature. Larger than the state of Delaware, the refuge’s expanse includes snow-capped mountains, forests, lakes, vast wetland networks, and glacier-fed salmon streams that provide habitat to all of the state’s charismatic megafauna: grizzlies, …