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Recent Examples of dunesMany travelers opt to take a four-wheeler down the Sand Highway, a one-way trail into a canyon on the boundary of the dunes, and the South Boundary Trail, which winds along the eastern side of the main dune area.—Lydia Mansel, Travel + Leisure, 21 Oct. 2025
On a hike along the Aletch Glacier—the longest and, in my opinion, most beautiful in Europe-–I stood over an ant-sized family with two young children crossing where the glacier runs a mile-wide and the ice rises so high, you could get lost between ridges.
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Anna Fiorentino,
Travel + Leisure,
23 Oct. 2025
By analyzing tree rings from across the Northern Hemisphere, scientists reconstructed the long-term history of an atmospheric phenomenon known as a locked wave-5 jet stream pattern — where the jet stream forms five wavy ridges and troughs around the planet.
Guides such as Eggleston place observers on sandbars at least 150 feet from the charismatic carnivores.
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Susan Portnoy,
AFAR Media,
3 Oct. 2025
One man aboard the boat knew how to navigate the mangroves and sandbars of the keys, and with the late summer sun beating down on the rafters, the boat pushed out feebly into the open ocean.
The stock recently took a hit as credit-quality concerns weighed on global banks, but a strong quarterly report eased those worries.
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Natasha Abellard,
CNBC,
24 Oct. 2025
Both legacy banks and startups have been trying to compete with firms like Moneygram or Western Union, which historically charged large remittance and currency-changing fees.
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