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A couple shares a romantic moment on a first-class train car to Yekaterinburg, Russia. A story in the June 1998 issue followed the Trans-Siberian Railroad, which stretches 5,778 miles.

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Two clownfish huddle in their host anemone in the Philippines. A 2019 study found that clownfish eggs weren't hatching when exposed to artificial light at night.

African penguins forage near their rookeries on Mercury Island in Namibia. The previously unpublished photo was taken for a story in the December 2014 issue about how to sustain fishing communities in Southern Africa.

Botanists extract a core sample from a 350-foot giant in Redwood National Park, California.

The blue glove hasn’t been in the water long enough to suffer the fate of most ocean plastic, which is to be shredded into small bits, or microplastics, by waves and sunlight. The larval fish below the thumb is a driftfish; the striped one at the base of the index finger is a mahi-mahi

Life is a journey that must be traveled no matter how bad the roads and accommodations.