Plus, rainy season delights on safari; dolphin deaths at a Las Vegas casino.
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How do we know how dangerous chemicals accumulate and affect the body? How do we know if regulations to stop such contamination are working?
The answer comes from behind a plain green door, inside a wartime bunker in a placid German forest. Inside sit 400,000 samples of blood and urine from more than 17,000 people.
The repository may be the world's best kept memory of environmental pollution—and it is increasingly important in solving urgent health questions.
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| The samples: Above, Dominik Lermen takes out frozen dummy samples to demonstrate the storage conditions in the bunker. At top, Lerman shows how such samples used to be frozen and stored in larger volumes. Read more. Related: Your tap water. | |
 | | PHOTOGRAPH BY JOHN LOCHER, AP | | | |
 | | PHOTOGRAPH BY FRITZ POLKING, VWPICS/AP | | | What’s up, Chicago? A museum is supposed to preserve endangered objects. Construction at the Chicago History Museum in 2021 drove away black-crowned night herons (pictured above) from their annual breeding grounds. The birds haven’t been back, Nat Geo reports. | | | |
| The rainy season: That’s when photographer Karine Aigner found these furballs in Botswana. For safaris, the rainy season “offers a completely different landscape—one of technicolor green backgrounds, flowers, and golden light,” she writes. This image got more than 277,000 likes on our Instagram page. See other trends that may transform the traditional safari experience.
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| This newsletter was curated and edited by David Beard, Sydney Combs, Jen Tse, and Heather Kim. Do you have an idea or a link for the newsletter? Let us know at david.beard@natgeo.com. | | | |
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