A red-eared slider in Maharashtra. The turtle originated in the Mississippi River and the Gulf of Mexico. | Rahul Kulkarni / Mongabay India Around three months ago, Adithyan D Thambi, a Class 6 ...

Boxed in by a freeway, a golf course and a neighborhood, it’s a miracle that San Francisco’s Mountain Lake even exists. But not only is the tiny lake—located on the south end of the city’s Presidio ...