A Place for Parks Conservationists in South Africa hope to preserve a balance between the nation's magnificent wildlife and a rapidly expanding human population desperate for land

Dinosaurs of the Gobi Buried by desert sandstorms 80 million years ago, wondrous creatures reveal themselves in well-preserved fossils of parents and nestlings.

Syria Behind the Mask A key to Middle East peace, this arid nation no longer under Soviet sway has begun to loosen its grip on the economic and political activities of its people