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- For centuries, Big Sur residents have seen 'Dark Watchers' in the mountains https://www.sfgate.com/local/editorspicks/article/dark-watchers-santa-lucia-range-stories-steinbeck-16012812.php 3 comments
- Torching for Newts - Dark Mountain https://dark-mountain.net/torching-for-newts/ 2 comments truereddit
- This remote himalayan mountain lake hides dark secrets (2025) covers the mysteries of the human remains and skeletons found to be more than 1000 years old [00:13:10] https://youtu.be/cYiEZj_mPdo?si=BiH9GwGFyJa5rXy7 5 comments documentaries
- Chilling discovery may confirm dark Greek legend: 3,000-year-old skeleton of teenager found among animal remains on mountain once worshiped as birthplace of Zeus http://www.dailymail.co.uk/sciencetech/article-3733355/mountaintop-dig-finds-chilling-echo-dark-greek-legend.html 4 comments science
- Latest image from New Horizons features mountains that straddle the border of Pluto's bright "Heart" region and dark "Cthulhu" region. https://www.nasa.gov/sites/default/files/thumbnails/image/nh-pluto-mountain-range.png 12 comments space
- If you’ve ever felt a thrill during a thunderstorm, awe before a dark and looming mountain range, or delightful trepidation during a solar eclipse, then you have experienced what philosopher Edmund Burke calls the sublime… https://philosophybreak.com/articles/the-sublime-edmund-burke-on-the-feeling-thunderstorms-give-you/ 43 comments philosophy
- Elite climbers have scaled the treacherous slopes of Pakistan’s “Killer Mountain” in pitch darkness in an extraordinary attempt to rescue two mountaineers. The rescuers climbed more than 1,000 metres up Nanga Parbat, the ninth highest mountain in the world, to reach Frenchwoman Elisabeth Revol https://www.theguardian.com/world/2018/jan/28/nanga-parbat-climbers-rescue-french-woman 8 comments worldnews
- The Environmental Disaster that is Fuelled by Used Clothes and Fast Fashion (2018) The dark side of the world’s fashion addiction. Many of our clothes donated to charities, end up in rotting textile mountains in West Africa. A story about how waste is creating an environmental disaster [00:32:00] https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=bB3kuuBPVys 40 comments documentaries
- 100s of rare snow leopards illegally killed every year in remote mountains from China to Tajikistan, further endangering the big cats that number only a few thousand in the wild: Prices ranged up to $10,000 for the carcasses, prized for thick light-colored fur with dark spots, http://www.reuters.com/article/us-environment-leopards-iduskcn12l0br?feedname=environmentnews&feedtype=rss 274 comments worldnews
- Norwegian Town Creates 'Artificial Sun' to Light Up Dark Winter Days -- Three huge mirrors were installed on the face of a neighboring mountain a few days ago that will redirect the sun down onto the town. The light will create a 2,000-square-foot circle on the town square which is usually in shadow http://inhabitat.com/giant-sun-tracking-mirrors-bring-light-to-a-small-norwegian-town-during-dark-winters/ 3 comments worldnews
- Don Blankenship, Dark Lord of Coal Country - "He buys judges like cheap hookers, treats workers like dogs, blasts mountains to get at a few inches of coal, and he earns $18 million a year." One week after this profile was published, Blankenship quit http://www.rollingstone.com/politics/news/17390/236336 20 comments business
