Julian Medina comes from a long line of fishers in the north of Colombia’s Gulf of Morrosquillo who use small-scale and often traditional methods to…
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Fox bones at ancient burial site suggest animal may have been kept as pet
The remains of a fox unearthed at a human burial site in Argentina dating back 1,500 years has raised the possibility the animal may have…
View More Fox bones at ancient burial site suggest animal may have been kept as pet‘A mystical experience’: millions watch total solar eclipse sweep across North America
The ethereal spectacle of a total solar eclipse swept across North America on Monday afternoon, giving tens millions of people in Mexico, the US and…
View More ‘A mystical experience’: millions watch total solar eclipse sweep across North AmericaBlue, mysterious and arriving by the millions: the alien-like creatures blanketing US beaches
From Oregon to California, blankets of alien-like blue creatures are washing up on rocky beaches. They are Velella velella, tiny colonies of organisms with a…
View More Blue, mysterious and arriving by the millions: the alien-like creatures blanketing US beachesWeather tracker: Flood fallout claims at least 20 lives in Brazil
Brazil was hit by devastating floods over the weekend that have so far claimed 20 lives in the resultant landslides and mudslides. There was heavy…
View More Weather tracker: Flood fallout claims at least 20 lives in Brazil‘Holy grail of shipwrecks’: recovery of 18th-century Spanish ship could begin in April
Since the Colombian navy discovered the final resting place of the Spanish galleon San José in 2015, its location has remained a state secret, the…
View More ‘Holy grail of shipwrecks’: recovery of 18th-century Spanish ship could begin in AprilPeople displaced by climate crisis to testify in first-of-its-kind hearing in US
Communities under imminent threat from rising sea level, floods and other extreme weather will testify in Washington on Thursday, as the region’s foremost human rights…
View More People displaced by climate crisis to testify in first-of-its-kind hearing in USAmazon rainforest could reach ‘tipping point’ by 2050, scientists warn
Up to half of the Amazon rainforest could hit a tipping point by 2050 as a result of water stress, land clearance and climate disruption,…
View More Amazon rainforest could reach ‘tipping point’ by 2050, scientists warnHow rice hidden by a woman fleeing slavery in the 1700s could help her descendants
When enslaved Africans escaped the Surinamese plantations overseen by Dutch colonists from the 17th to the 19th century, several women ingeniously hid rice grains in…
View More How rice hidden by a woman fleeing slavery in the 1700s could help her descendantsOptimism dries up in Amazon as Lula drifts from climate priorities
What a difference a year makes in the Brazilian Amazon. At the start of 2023, I wrote about the green shoots of the rainy season…
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