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FROM RIM OF NEVER-BEFORE-CLIMBED VOLCANO, A SURPRISE

Monday, February 27, 2023

In today’s newsletter, we make a discovery inside a remote island volcano, examine the shipwreck find that was hidden for decades, meet the long-living animal that stays fertile until it dies ... and celebrate International Polar Bear Day.

PHOTOGRAPHS BY RENAN OZTURK

No one had ever seen this before.

Reaching the top of a remote volcano on a South Atlantic island, Emma Nicholson looked over the rim for the first time—as a drone moved deeper inside. Suddenly, on the Nat Geo Explorer's hand-held camera, she spotted an a lake of molten lava. gurgling far below. What else did this undiscovered world yield?

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Inside the volcano: At top, Mount Michael, rising more than 3,000 above the Atlantic, last erupted in 2021. Above, a moment of respite reveals the base camp’s tenuous perch on Saunder’s Island. Maintaining the phalanx of snow walls and keeping tents properly tethered required hours of work each day. The adventure will be featured this fall on National Geographic Explorer on Disney+. Read more.

STORIES WE’RE FOLLOWING

A picture of a cougar leaping over a forest stream

PHOTOGRAPH BY JIM AND JAMIE DUTCHER, NATGEO IMAGE COLLECTION

What do you mean, mountain lions can swim? (Pictured, one leaping across a forest stream.)

These 5 year olds have a 50/50 shot of living until 100. How do we prepare them?

Use it or lose it: How to keep your brain healthy

See the smile of a 1,300-year-old man

The plot to kill Queen Elizabeth

Delaying having a child? What to know about freezing eggs.

These long-living animals are fertile until they die

Diving tourists encounter 30-foot sea ‘monster’

Nine decades ago, the Kremlin killed millions of Ukrainians

IN THE SPOTLIGHT

A Chinese shipwreck

MARITIME SILK ROAD MUSEUM GUANGDONG

What’s with the big secret? China uncovered an 800-year-old shipwreck (illustrated above), but for decades, the authoritative government kept the exciting undersea discovery from its people—the the world. Nat Geo looks into the ’why’ in this story.

THE SECRET SHIPWRECK

PHOTO OF THE DAY

A polar bear in Canada

PHOTOGRAPH BY FLIP NICKLIN

Cute, but keep your distance: On International Polar Bear Day, we present you this bear, shown in a 1996 archival photo from Canada. With its front paws placed against its nuzzle, this Ursus maritimus sleeps. Here’s our story from the polar bear capital of the world.

LAST GLIMPSE

A bamboo coffin

PHOTOGRAPH BY ABBIE TRAYLER-SMITH, THE GUARDIAN/EYEVINE/REDUX

Green funerals: Is it better for the environment to be buried in a way that isn’t sealed by concrete? Interest is rising in alternative burials, Nat Geo reports. (Pictured above, Adeline O'Keefe from Britain’s Natural Death Centre poses with a bamboo coffin.)

EMBRACING THE EARTH

Today's soundtrack: Strasbourg / St. Denis, the Roy Hargrove Quintet

Today's newsletter was curated and edited by Jen Tse, Hannah Farrow, and David Beard. Have an idea or link to a story you think is right down our alley? Let us know at [email protected]. Happy trails!

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