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The dredger "Cotes de Bretagne" shoots sand onto a beach of Pyla-sur-Mer in La Teste-de-Buch in Arcachon Bay. The boat, from Brittany, pumps sand from offshore sand bars before shooting it back onto beaches using a technique known as "the rainbow", in an effort to fight against erosion. (Nicolas Tucat/AFP/Getty Images)

Why Sand Is Essential to Humanity and How We’re Using It Up

A student swims during an apnea course by Italian free diver, Umberto Pelizzari, at the "Y-40 The Deep Joy" swimming pool on December 8, 2014 in Montegrotto Terme, northeastern Italy. The swimming pool is built over thermal sources bringing after cooling down a water at 32-34 degrees Celsius. Y-40, with its depth of 42mt, is officially included in the Guinness World Record as the deepest pool in the world for free and scuba diving. AFP PHOTO / OLIVIER MORIN (Photo credit should read OLIVIER MORIN/AFP/Getty Images)

Hotel Terme Millepini in Italy Features a 131-Foot-Deep Pool

“Crossing the Ohio River, Louisville,” 1966. Vintage gelatin silver print. (Danny Lyon, courtesy Edwynn Houk Gallery, New York)

Danny Lyon Retrospective Features Rare Vintage Prints

(Jean Marc Cote)

Here’s What 19th-Century France Thought Life Would Look Like Today

Banksy 'Think Tank'

Everything You Need to Know About Collecting Street Art Right Now

Ricky Williams #34 of the Miami Dolphins carries the ball in the second quarter against the New England Patriots on November 8, 2009 at Gillette Stadium in Foxboro, Massachusetts. (Elsa/Getty Images)

Ex-NFL Star Ricky Williams Believes He Set the Record for Most Career Drug Tests

Zhang Hemin—“Papa Panda” to his staff—poses with cubs born in 2015 at Bifengxia Panda Base. “Some local people say giant pandas have magic powers,” says Zhang, who directs many of China’s panda conservation efforts. “To me, they simply represent beauty and peace.” (© Ami Vitale/National Geographic)

Preparing Pandas in Captivity for Their New Life in the Wild

This Ivy League Student Moonlights as a Competitive Climber

Terrifying Trail Ride Shot by GPS-Tracking Drone

Cabot Cliffs

Plan Your Next Summer Vacation Around These Top Coastal Golf Courses

Gas-masked men of the British Machine Gun Corps with a Vickers machine gun during the first battle of the Somme. (General Photographic Agency/Getty Images)

How ‘The Lord of the Rings’ Was Inspired by a World War

What Ultra-Thin Solar Panels Mean for Our Future

Cunningham Residence ("Stoneflower" House), by Herb Greene, Oklahoma City, Oklahoma, 1964. (Julius Shulman Photography Archive, Research Library at the Getty Research Institute)

Rediscovering Architectural Photographer Julius Shulman’s Modernism

Explore a Soviet Mining Town Frozen in Time

(M.C. Escher/Taschen)

Exploring the ‘Impossible’ With Artist M.C. Escher

The 78 Best Tweets of the Republican National Convention

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