A brutal heat wave in Mexico is causing monkeys to drop dead from trees

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Saraguato monkeys (Alouatta palliata) die amid drought and high temperatures, in Buena Vista
Monkeys are falling dead from trees because of a heat wave in Mexico.

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Indonesia is using influencers and green pledges to promote its new $35 billion capital. Take a look at Nusantara.

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Construction on the site of Indonesia's new capital city Nusantara
Construction is underway on Nusantara.

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A hiker discovered a wealthy traveler's remains on a skiing glacier in Switzerland. They turned out to be 400 years old.

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Pierre-Yves Nicod holds the mystery traveler's 400-year-old shoe.

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Photos show what cave divers discovered when they swam inside an iceberg the size of Jamaica. Today, it's gone.

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Paul Heinerth rises out of a cave inside a fragment of iceberg B15, which calved from Antarctica in the spring of 2000.

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Biden brags about his environmental record to win young voters, but most have no idea what he's done to fight climate change

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President Joe Biden.

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No bean coffee made from things like date seeds may be in our near future

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Coffee production has several downfalls.

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One of Mt. Everest's deadliest passages is growing even more treacherous

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A Mt. Everest cimber prepares to cross a crevasse in the Khumbu Icefall
Navigating the Khumbu Icefall involves crossing ladders laid over crevasses that can be up to hundreds of feet deep.

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Meet Nancy Walton Laurie, the billionaire Walmart heiress whose $300 million yacht was spray-painted by climate activists last year

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Nancy Walton Laurie at a Cedar Lake dancers' practice. She founded the contemporary ballet group in 2002.

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Billionaire's million-dollar Nantucket beach house has officially been swept away

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Barry Sternlicht's Nantucket property experienced severe erosion, requiring the home to be demolished.

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America generates 40 million tons of plastic waste a year — and it can't be recycled

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Americans produce 40 million tons of plastic waste each year. And it has to go somewhere.

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