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Aerial shots of world’s highest outdoor elevator

If you’ve thought taking a glass elevator on a multistoried building is a breathtaking experience, try the Bailong Elevator in Zhangjiajie, Hunan Province, in China.

The Guinness World Records has recently recognized this 326-meter elevator — it is as tall as New York’s Chrysler Building — as the highest outdoor sightseeing elevator in the world. The 180-million yuan (27.6 million US dollars) elevator project was started in 2002 and stands close to a cliff in Zhangjiajie.

So if you want to try something comfortably daring combined with some sightseeing, you know where to head next.

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Superb cutaway painting of a lunar outpost by David Meltzer for National Geographic Feb 1969

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CHILE : View of the Villarrica volcano taken from Pucon, some 800 km south of Santiago, showing signs of activity on March 22, 2016. AFP PHOTO / SEBASTIAN ESCOBAR

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China’s nature reserve wins top conservation award from UNESCO

China’s Wudalianchi nature reserve has been honored with the Michel Batisse Award at the 4th World Congress of Biosphere Reserves in Lima. The award has been given out by UNESCO since 1989 to help research on ecosystems, natural resources and biodiversity.

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The Rainbow Mountains Of China Are Earth’s Paint Palette

The Rainbow Mountains of China within the Zhangye Danxia Landform Geological Park are a geological wonder of the world. These famous Chinese mountains are known for their otherworldly colors that mimic a rainbow painted over the tops of rolling mountains.

This is just one example where geology catches our attention and begs the question: What causes the Rainbow Mountains to be colored the way they are? Here’s the processes that make up the reds, greens, yellows, and blues.

Source: onforb.es
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Meet the cute baby giraffe at Suzhou Zoo A giraffe cub made its public debut with its mom on Tuesday in Suzhou Zoo, which is located in Suzhou city, east China’s Jiangsu Province. The cub was born on Monday, the same day as China’s Lantern Festival, and is the first baby giraffe to be born at the zoo in over 50 years.

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