Is your sky filled with grey? Here's some information about the stratus family of clouds.
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Stratocumulus (Image ID: wea00116, NOAA's National Weather Service (NWS) Collection)
Chocolate
Cocoa beans in a cacao pod (Photo by Keith Weller, Image No. K4636-14, courtesy Agricultural Research Service, U.S. Department of Agriculture).
If you're planning to celebrate Valentine's Day by giving someone a box of chocolates, you'll be participating in a popular tradition.
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Brown bears seek concentrated food resources (salmon, sedges, carcasses, etc.) to fatten up for winter hibernation. (Photo credit: Katmai National Park and Preserve, courtesy National Park Service).
Hibernating animals can live through long periods of extreme weather during which food is scarce.
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