In South Africa, a renamed landscape
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JOHANNESBURG -- Hendrik Verwoerd Drive is headed for the dustbin. The busy road, named after a key architect of the apartheid laws that oppressed South Africa's black majority for decades, is likely to get a name more in step with the times: Nkululeko Drive, the Zulu word for "freedom."
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LAKE SIBAYA, South Africa  - Bongi Nkosi stands  proudly by her family house gushing over an expansion made  possible by politics and pavement.
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By Jackie Bow    South Wales Echo  A former tip site is being transformed as part of a major project to put trees and woodlands at the heart of some of the poorest communities in Wales.
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MAPUNGUBWE, South Africa  - People in southern  Africa have long told the tale of a sophisticated kingdom that  once thrived here, but the story was ignored by a government  that dismissed any sign of black ingenuity.
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Blog: The species was changed. But it's controversial.
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For Kenyan Willy Cheruiyot the streets through the southern Dutch city of Eindhoven are quite familiar.
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Table Mountain and the Twelve Apostles here are somewhat different to those found way down south - but they nevertheless share the same name.
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South Africa is scouring  the globe to recover lost works by black artists that depict  the turbulent apartheid era in a drive to educate young people  about the struggle against white rule.
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A draft loyalty pledge has plunged South Africa into a new identity crisis as it mulls its common values 14 years after discarding apartheid to forge a united society under a single flag.
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From new place names, shrinking seas  and terror attacks to soaring Internet usage, the world is  changing at a more rapid pace than in previous decades, says  National Geographic's chief cartographer.
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The provenance of a man-made forest in the shape of a swastika near the edge of the Himalayas presents a complicated mystery.
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Environmentalists are thinking ahead to the effect of tourists and investors on a landscape of crucial habitats.
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MASERU, Lesotho  - Because it is completely  encircled by South Africa, many people assume Lesotho is part  of its much larger neighbor.
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Once the continent's pariah because of racial oppression, South Africa has become the favored destination for educated, ambitious refugees from other parts of Africa with political and economic problems.
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South African diners whose environmentalism is as discerning as their palates now can turn to technology to help make the right menu choices.
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By Scott Sexton, Winston-Salem Journal, N.C.  Feb. 13--Change comes slowly to the mountains, whether it's the thousands of years it took rivers to carve the breathtaking valleys and gorges or the decades it's taking to change the way people think about their stewardship of the land.
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The intensifying impact of human activities is visibly altering the planet, requiring ever more frequent redrawing of the Earthâs features themselves.