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Can nature heal the brain?

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Journalist Sarah Allely was knocked off her bike by a wrong-way driver in 2015. The experience left her with a traumatic brain injury — but also gave her insight into nature’s role in recovery.

More Italians are raising chickens

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Europe looks for alternative to Starlink

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Migrant abuse alleged at Latvian border

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Island nation fights the sea to keep its land

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Sentencing of Bosnian-Serb leader highlights discord inside Bosnia-Herzegovina

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The Bosnian-Serb leader Milorad Dodik is facing a year in prison for defying Bosnia-Herzegovina’s highest court. The separatist leader called last week’s verdict “nonsense.”

Bright lights, big city, big light pollution

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Our partners at Deutsche Welle took a walking tour of the problem of light pollution in Cologne, Germany, for the “Living Planet” program with journalist Kathleen Schuster.

This Scottish peat bog has become an unlikely tourist attraction

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Scotland’s Flow Country looks from a distance like a vast expanse of dull, wet brown vegetation — not the kind of view that tourists typically find enticing. But it’s become a real attraction since being declared a UNESCO World Heritage site.

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