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Photo by Tomas van Houtryve | Early on a cold winter morning in Paris, hundreds of paddle boarders on the Seine River pass next to Notre Dame Cathedral. The interior of Notre Dame has been closed to the public since a devastating fire in April 2019, but it's scheduled to reopen at the end of 2024. For more photos and stories about Notre Dame, follow .

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Photo by .johnson / At sunrise, Pacific walrus wallow off the shore of Round Island, part of Alaska's Walrus Islands State Game Sanctuary. Every summer, thousands of male walrus gather to rest on this remote island while the females migrate north with the receding sea ice edge to give birth.

Walrus are a keystone species, meaning they help shore up the entire biotic community they live in. When they forage on the seafloor, they churn up vast quantities of nutrient-rich sediment, providing food for smaller organisms on up to seabirds, larger fish, seals, and even polar bears further north. But despite their vital role in the ecosystem, they often fall low on the priority list for conservation. Follow the link in bio to learn more about them and the experience of camping alongside them in Alaska's Walrus Islands State Game Sanctuary.

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Photo by / When the pandemic temporarily shuttered the Musée Méchanique, a coin-operated arcade in San Francisco’s Fisherman’s Wharf, owner Dan Zelinksy continued to maintain over 300 machines. He uses roller skates to zip around the space that houses the collection his father started in 1933. With no income for over a year, a GoFundMe campaign helped with the rent until the arcade could reopen on June 15, when restrictions were lifted in the state. “This place brings out the best of people,” he says. “They'll see a machine that they grew up with, you know, 50, 60, 70, 80 years ago, and they lose it completely. They're just so happy to be able to play with it again. This is what makes it all worthwhile.”

Supported by ’s Emergency Fund for Journalists, I've been working on a project on the Fisherman’s Wharf neighborhood, San Francisco’s main tourist destination, to document the economic impact of the pandemic in communities that rely on tourism. For more from this story, follow along .

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Photo by / Edward J. Despott (center right), gastroenterologist, works alongside Alexandros Skamnelos (center), fellow in advanced endoscopy, to perform a double bowel endoscopy on a COVID-19 patient whose religious beliefs prevent him from receiving blood and blood products, in the ICU of the Royal Free Hospital in London, England, June 2020. The patient was bleeding profusely from his bowel, and they managed to do this rare procedure in full PPE to stop the bleeding.

One year and over 112,000 deaths into the pandemic, the United Kingdom has one of the highest COVID-19 death tolls per one million population in the world. The U.K. government is in a race to vaccinate its population, and it's one of the leading countries worldwide, with more than 12 million people vaccinated, roughly 23% of the adult population, according to gov.uk and the Office of National Statistics.

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Photos by Muhammed Muheisen | Evening falls over a canal in Amsterdam. For more photos and videos from different parts of the world, follow me and .

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Photo by Charlie Hamilton James | Keeping monkeys as pets is common among many Indigenous groups across the Amazon. The Awã have a very close connection with several monkey species, including black-bearded sakis, capuchins, and tamarins. This image of Ximirapi and her monkey was shot in the Brazilian state of Maranhão while I was covering a story on isolated tribes. Some Awã still remain in voluntary isolation; others like Ximirapi, who came into contact in 2015, have settled in communities set aside for them. Perhaps due to the islands of forest the Awã now live in, they are considered the world’s most threatened tribe.

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Photo by / Lucas Blijdorp, a logistical engineer, enters a building that's part of the German-French Jean Corbel Station, just outside Ny-Ålesund, in Norway's Svalbard archipelago. The research base is used for climate-related measurements. If the scientists leave the indoors, even for the restroom hut, located about 15 meters (50 feet) away from the main building, they carry a radio and a signal pistol, because polar bears are often nearby. Please follow for more polar science stories.

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Photo by Prasenjeet Yadav .yadav // Sponsored by // The high mountains of the Western Ghats of India are home to spectacular and geographically isolated “islands” in the sky. Known as the “sky islands,” these mountaintops are separated by deep and dry valleys full of a sea of clouds. These valleys restrict many species of birds, amphibians, reptiles, and mammals from moving across, resulting in their genetic isolation. This is one reason why these mountaintops are packed with species found nowhere else in the world. This sky island ecosystem is my favorite, as it was the first story that I published for National Geographic. It has become a long-term project for me. // Make calls from some of the most beautiful places on Earth. National Geographic backgrounds now on Portal and Messenger.

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Photo by Robbie Shone | Nele Meckler, a paleoclimatologist at Norway's University of Bergen, leads a research expedition to Gunung Mulu National Park in Malaysian Borneo. Meckler has been studying stalagmites in the park's caves for 10 years. She's fascinated by how Earth’s climate behaved during large shifts, such as between ice ages and warm times, and how the tropics interacted with what happened near the poles. This expedition will improve our understanding of tropical climate change over the last 500,000 years.

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Photo by | With paws like a cat, a tail like a monkey, and round ears like a weasel, the fossa—like this one at the zoo in Omaha, Nebraska—can be hard to categorize at first glance. Although they share some similarities with cats, fossas are most closely related to mongooses and civets. Marooned in Madagascar for millions of years, the fossa became the largest carnivore on the island, dominating the landscape. They are excellent hunters and eat birds, mice, and pigs, but these carnivores often feed on another animal unique to the island: lemurs.

To see more species featured in the Photo Ark, follow me .

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Millennials aren’t meeting their parents’ benchmarks for "adulthood"—but that’s not necessarily a bad thing.

This generation is starting their families later and has more debt keeping them from buying a home. However, in losing these traditional markers of adulthood, millennials have gained new freedom, one expert says.

As millennials hit middle age, difficult financial and cultural realities leave many of them with a sense that they’re not living up to the standards of modern adulthood. But changing ideas about aging are also shaping their midlife behavior in new ways, creating more space for accomplishments and adventure.

Read more about why midlife looks different for millennials at the link in bio.

Photograph by KNSY/Picture Press/Redux

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Photo by | A basking shark cruises along the west coast of Scotland. After locating a plankton patch, this giant opened its mouth and blasted right through it. The white gill arches contain rakers—structures that snag plankton from water passing through its mouth. Unlike many other species of filter feeder able to pump water through gill rakers, basking sharks feed passively. This means they must swim to eat. Given their size, they need to do a lot of eating—and therefore a lot of swimming. It’s estimated they can filter two million liters (500,000 gallons) of water per hour! Follow for more wildlife adventures.

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