Britain’s fields, parks and lawns were thriving areas of fresh greenery, just before summer arrived. Then, everything was burnt to a crisp, with a yellow and golden hue and now landscapes as old as thousands of years have been revealed as green outlines against yellow backgrounds.July was the driest month ever recorded in England and…
Shackled skeletons, PC: Athens Journal of History, 2021 In 2016, archaeologists digging at the Phaleron cemetery on the coast near Athens uncovered one of the most unsettling finds in Greek archaeology, a mass grave holding nearly 80 adult men, many still shackled at the wrists with iron restraints. The men, known as the Esplanada group,…
18-year-old Bianca Adler turns back 400m from Everest summit, returns a year later to make historyPhoto: Bianca Adler/ Instagram In the pre-dawn darkness of the world’s highest mountain, an 18-year-old from Melbourne stood on top of the world. Bianca Adler had just become the youngest Australian to summit Mount Everest, completing a feat that had…
Australia’s camel population is difficult to count, partly because the animals are scattered across an immense stretch of desert and semi-desert country. Estimates have placed the feral herd anywhere from about 300,000 to one million, depending on the year and the method used to survey it. Their presence is a legacy of a very different…
Stories about social change tend to focus on the people at the top of the story, the prominent leaders, the large institutions, the wealthy donors whose names end up in the headline. MacKenzie Scott, who has given away tens of billions of dollars since 2019, pushed back on that habit directly in her own words….
Since the onset of the second Trump administration, the H-1B visa has transformed from a government document into a coveted goal. From applying to the lottery numerous times to hoping for other visas and even planning to switch countries, people have done all things imaginable to be able to extend their stay in the United…
Fossils from Wyoming are revealing how forests responded when Earth experienced one of its most intense episodes of global warming around 56 million years ago. A new study, published in the journal Science on August 13, 2026, reconstructs the structure of forests during the Paleocene-Eocene Thermal Maximum, or PETM, and finds that their canopies became…
Morocco is testing a ‘sponge’ pavement that drains water and cools itself through evaporation. For decades, black asphalt has rolled on the roads but parts of Marrakech and Agadir are reportedly becoming testing grounds for this new surface that is deemed to be environmentally better.The idea will not only make roads feel less hot during…
“I like this place and willingly could waste my time in it,” wrote William Shakespeare in his play ‘As You Like It’. Most people feel this sentiment towards their homes, the abodes they come to buy and decorate in the space of a lifetime with one trinket at a time.Shakespeare is believed to have been…
In a small rural corner of Jackson County, Ohio, where the hills still bear the scars of coal mining, one family chose to celebrate America’s 250th anniversary this year not with fireworks or parades, but with shovels, seedlings and a promise to heal the land. Their 60-acre property, a former Abandoned Mine Land (AML) site…
Representative image of the linear cluster of earthquakes tracing the edge of the Yakutat microplate in south-central Alaska (AI generated). Beneath the towering peaks of the Alaska Range, home to Denali, North America’s tallest mountain, scientists have uncovered a hidden geological feature that had gone completely unnoticed until now. Using a machine learning system to…
In September 1999, Joan Murray, a 47-year-old Bank of America executive from Charlotte, North Carolina, survived a skydiving accident that left her with devastating injuries. She had jumped from about 14,500 feet when her main parachute failed to open. Her reserve parachute deployed at roughly 700 feet but soon lost its effectiveness. Murray then struck…
