Climate change: effect on forests could last millennia, ancient ruins suggest: Jonathan Lenoir, Author provided Forests are home to 80% of land-based biodiversity, but these arks of life are under threat. The rising average global temperature is forcing tiny plants like sidebells wintergreen on the forest floor (known as the understory) to shift upslope in …
Innovations on the Nile over millennia offer lessons in engineering sustainable futures: An aerial shot of The Grand Ethiopian Renaissance Dam reservoir filling up. Taken in 2020. Photo by Gallo Images/Orbital Horizon/Copernicus Sentinel Data 2020 Africa is the continent most vulnerable to the impact of climate change. That’s largely because many of its people and …
Humans have used drugs with sex for millennia – the reasons are much broader than you think: Despite its long history, our understanding of the relationship between sex and drugs remains limited Shutterstock/Panu Kosonen On their own, sex and drugs are cultural taboos. Combining them only adds to our reluctance to talk about them. But …
Censorship through the millennia. And trying to locate it in the 21st Century: Shutterstock Once upon a time we all knew what censorship was, who the good and bad guys were, and what could be done to make the world a better place. Look up the noun “censor” in the Oxford English Dictionary and you’ll …