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Giant Cenote-Like Sinkhole Discovered in China’s Guangxi

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XINHUA A Chinese cave exploration team on Friday, May 6, discovered a giant karst sinkhole in Leye County, in the south the country’s Guangxi Zhuang Autonomous Region, bringing Leye’s number of such sinkholes to 30. https://v.xinhua-news.com/dsp_AV/avc_video/202205/08/124bc7afe2404e459f0612cd3956c983_2048k_L.mp4 China’s sinkholes are similar to the underground waterways cenotes found in Mexico’s Yucatan Peninsula. The massive newly discovered Guangxi sinkhole measures 306 meters in

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Land of Fire, City of Wind

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By THÉRÈSE MARGOLIS  BAKU, Aizerbaijan — When it comes to bone-chilling winds, Chicago has nothing on Baku. Situated on the southern side of the tip of Azerbaijan’s jutting Absheron Peninsula, the ancient Azeri capital is almost constantly battered by chilling, triple-digit-velocity gusts from the Caspian Sea, tempered only by warmer overland breezes from the inland regions of the country to the

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