The Independent Narjas Zatat 26 September, 2017 Archaeologists believe they have solved one of history’s most puzzling questions – how the ancient Egyptians transported over 170,000 tons of limestone to build the Great Pyramid at Giza. New findings at the site on the outskirts of Cairo have revealed purpose-built boats were used ... Read More »
“When I refused to sell my body they sold me to another brothel”. This is the heart rending testimony of a 13 year-old Nepalese girl named Skye trafficked by relatives to India. Skye’s story ends better than most. Together with her sister, Skye escaped the brothel, returned to school, and ... Read More »
Plant and animal species that are the foundation of our food supplies are as endangered as wildlife but get almost no attention, a new report reveals Comment: Chips, chocolate and coffee – our food crops face mass extinction too The Guardian Damian Carrington 25 September, 2018 The sixth mass extinction ... Read More »
Previous climate models may have been ‘on the hot side’ The Independent Harry Cockburn 19 September, 2017 Computer modelling used a decade ago to predict how quickly global average temperatures would rise may have forecast too much warming, a study has found. The Earth warmed more slowly than the models ... Read More »
NASA will crash a spacecraft into a planet today on a suicide mission to stamp out any threat of an alien invasion. The Daily Star By Henry Holloway 15 September, 2017 The £3 billion spacecraft has spent nearly a decade-and-a-half scouring the moons of the ringed planet for any signs ... Read More »
Newsweek Callum Paton 12 September, 2017 Archaeologists in Egypt have uncovered the ancient tomb of a royal goldsmith and jeweler containing mummies, believed to be his family members, and treasure more than three millennia old. The haul of jewelry, statues and ancient sarcophagi, the traditional anthropomorphic coffins used in the time ... Read More »
Agriculture has contributed nearly as much to climate change as deforestation by intensifying global warming, according to U.S. research that has quantified the amount of carbon taken from the soil by farming. Some 133 billion tons of carbon have been removed from the top two meters of the earth’s soil ... Read More »
Yearly mammograms starting at age 40 would prevent the most deaths from breast cancer, U.S. researchers reported in a challenge to more conservative recommendations that take into account both the harms and the benefits of screening. The study, led by Dr. Elizabeth Arleo, a radiologist specializing in mammography at Weill ... Read More »
The brightly colored minivan that pulls into Athens’ food market, drawing a group of refugees around it, is not carrying something edible. The contents – hundreds of books – are there to satisfy a different sort of hunger. For tens of thousands of refugees stuck in Greece for the past ... Read More »
Rising carbon dioxide levels from global warming will drastically reduce the amount of protein in staple crops like rice and wheat, leaving vulnerable populations at risk of growth stunting and early death, experts warned Wednesday. Researchers say they still don’t understand how or why carbon dioxide emissions sap protein and ... Read More »
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