Itaipu Dam, on the Parana River between Paraguay and Brazil, is the largest hydroelectric complex in the world.

The weather forecast page in the Beijing Youth Daily newspaper includes a pollution index listing levels of sulphur dioxide, carbon monoxide, ozone, and nitrogen dioxide in the air.

Wildfires travel 16 times faster going uphill.

Robert Stroud, known as “the birdman of Alcatraz,” actually wasn’t allowed to keep birds there. He got the nickname while serving his sentence at Leavenworth prior to Alcatraz.

A jellyfish is about 95% water.

This article appears in July 12 • 2002.

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