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Catholic devotees covered in mud and banana leaves take part in the Mud People festival in Bibiclat, Nueva Ecija, Philippines, on June 24, 2026.

The Mariana Trench drops nearly 36,000 feet beneath the Pacific, deep enough to swallow Mount Everest with more than 1 mile ...

A look at the recovery, watershed stewardship and resilience one year after the 2025 Texas Hill Country flood.

A handful of us sat in folding chairs. Everyone wore binoculars slung around their necks; some of us held clipboards. As ...

Devout Catholics smeared their bodies with mud and wore banana leaves as they participated in an annual festival in Bibiclat, a village in the Philippines, ...

A dramatic wildlife rescue in New York is drawing attention after an animal rescuer waded into 4-foot-deep marsh mud to save ...