thousands of Buddhist statues in Afghanistan.

The thousands of artifacts that have come back to lightweight mirror the wealth that copper delivered to

this non secular and industrial site. A sampling includes a rare depiction of religious mystic mystic

before he became the Buddha (opposite, bottom right) and also the oldest known complete picket

Buddha (right), eight inches tall, from about A.D. 400 to 600.

jungles of Myanmar

The wind slams into Maine, and that i urgently grip my ice axes to stay from being ripped off the mountain
face. I push my head against the snow, calm myself, and appearance down. below my crampons could be a five,000-foot
drop. It’s like wanting down from the open door of associate degree plane. i'm roped to my 2 companions, with
nothing attaching North American nation to the mountain. A fall here would send all 3 people plummeting to our death.

Tracking ivory

storm. The result: Some thirty,000 African elephants ar slaughtered once a year, more than

100,000 between 2009 and 2012, and also the pace of killing isn't retardation. Most ineligible ivory goes

How a Jellyfish Re-arms

Many invertebrates, like salamanders and ocean stars, will grow a piece

if they lose one. That’s what man of science archangel Abrams expected to happen once

he removed 2 of eight arms from a young moon jelly (Aurelia aurita). But when

Abrams checked on the experiment, “he started yelling … ‘You won’t believe

this—you’ve have to be compelled to come back here and see!’ ” recollects Abrams’s degree advisor, Lea

Madagascar’s chameleons

Madagascar’s chameleons is as little as Brookesia micra, its body but an in.

long, and as massive as a two-foot-long Oustalet’s chameleon, seen here by flowering tree trees.

calling its prominence into question embarrassed some Burmese

calling its prominence into question embarrassed

some Burmese. (Tragically, Andy Tyson

was killed in a very plane crash in April.)

Tracking Illegal Traders

It was one amongst those audacious ideas that had slightly of the crazy: Hunt the

elephant hunters.