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Lake Mead, the largest reservoir in the nation, has shrunk so low there's concern the Hoover Dam will soon be unable to generate hydropower

Where the Colorado River crisis is hitting home

Sep 23, 2022 Travel through the epicenter of the western megadrought, and you'll find plenty of people who are dealing with, or on the cusp of, dire consequences.
Members of the group Danzas y Bailes tradicionales Alma Mexicana perform a regional dance from Jalisco, México, at México City's Teatro Ferrocarrilero Gudelio Morales in July.

My familia of dancers, a legacy of love for the craft

Sep 16, 2022 Dance is a common denominator in my family.
Em Loerzel is a graduate student and White Earth Nation descendant who started The Humble Horse, a nonprofit in River Falls, Wis., dedicated to reviving the Ojibwe Horse, a rare breed that has adapted to the forests along the Minnesota-Canada border.

Return of rare Ojibwe horse lifts spirits — but still needs help

Sep 6, 2022 The horses are small, sturdy and friendly.
President Biden official portrait

Watch Live from Philadelphia: Biden speaks on the state of democracy

Sep 1, 2022 THURSDAY at 5pm
The skate park was a community effort.

How teens brought a skate park to their Native American reservation

Aug 30, 2022 The village of Tewa, Ariz., recently ramped up its skating scene.
The Girl Scouts website calls Raspberry Rally a "thin, crispy cookie infused with raspberry flavor and dipped in chocolaty coating."

An inside look at how the Girl Scouts chose their next cookie flavor, Raspberry Rally

Aug 25, 2022 A new Girl Scout cookie has joined the lineup.
It took astrophotographers Andrew McCarthy and Connor Matherne over nine months to edit their final image. It's comprised of more than 200,000 shots pieced together to make a single photograph.

How 2 astrophotographers teamed up to capture a stellar image of the moon

Aug 22, 2022 Andrew McCarthy and Connor Matherne collaborated last November to push their photography skills to the limit.
Rafael López poses with his mariachi stamps in a classroom at the Smithsonian's National Postal Museum. The set was launched in August.

For the first time, the Postal Service features mariachi musicians on stamps

Aug 15, 2022 For some in the Latino community, it's recognition of how their heritage and culture are part of the American fabric.
After the project cavers found Abby, they left a light for her while Gerry Keene went to get help to get the dog out.

A caving project became a rescue mission after a dog was found 500 feet down

Aug 12, 2022 Dogs don't usually dwell in caves, but sure enough, there was a dog curled up on the mud floor.
The baby calf and mother Bibi are healthy, and the zoo says they are "inseparable."

Fiona the Hippo gets a little brother

Aug 9, 2022 The 23-year-old mother Bibi carried the boy, who weighs at least roughly 60 pounds.
A photo illustration of items left behind in books at the Oakland Public Library in Oakland, Calif.

A librarian collects all the things left in books — from love letters to old photos

Aug 3, 2022 Librarian Sharon McKellar collects the found artifacts and posts them on the library's website.
Bogan monitors the plant and animal life along the river.

The water came back

Aug 1, 2022 Poor water practices made the Santa Cruz River practically disappear, but new efforts have some water flowing again. And when there’s water in the desert, life follows quickly.
The Line is an ambitious part of Saudi Crown Prince Mohammed bin Salman's plan to diversify the kingdom's economy and remake part of its geography.

A 105-mile-long city will snake through the Saudi desert. Is that a good idea?

Jul 27, 2022 It will cost hundreds of billions of dollars to build.
Rabin's house sits just down the road from a border checkpoint, in a corner of Arizona where water is drying up so quickly that many of her neighbors have spent tens of thousands of dollars to deepen their wells, or dig new ones altogether.

“Not here for some agrarian fantasy”

Jul 25, 2022 Arizona plays a big role in providing Americans with fresh greens year-round, and its farmers are feeling the pressure to keep that going while cutting down on water. It’s also not an easy place to start farming from scratch.

Watch Live: House January 6 committee holds public hearings on its investigation

Jul 21, 2022 Stream the hearing live online beginning at 5 p.m.
This reconstruction of a marble archer shows the vivid colors that characterized Greek sculpture, and patterns that identify him as a fighter from Persia.

We know Greek statues weren't white. Now you can see them in color.

Jul 13, 2022 "For some, it will be a shock," said Max Hollein, the director of the museum. "But one has to understand that our current, whitewashed idea of Greek and Roman antiquity is wrong. It's false."

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