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If you want to govern effectively, you have to be prepared to stand up to powerful interest groups. It’s now clear Albanese isn’t prepared to do that.
Crystal Cave in Sequoia National Park is reopening for guided tours after a four-year closure due to natural disasters. The cave, formed in 200 million-year-old marble, features unique geological ...
In Belize’s Actun Tunichil Muknal cave, a sacred Maya site, plants grow in darkness, sparking concerns about how tourism affects its fragile ecosystem. In Belize’s Actun Tunichil Muknal (ATM ...
I like my relationship with the animals and the work’s respect for nature.” He knows each of his 50 cows by name, and he controls the entire process. “The alpage is the definition of freedom.” ...
The Grotte de Cussac in France’s southwestern Dordogne is home to ancient secrets, including prehistoric cave artworks depicting long-extinct animals and stylised human figures.
The 1.6-kilometre (mile-long) cave has more than 1,000 carved figures, both animals and stylised feminine forms. Scientists have dated them to between 26,000 and 35,000 years ago, the time of the ...
The 1.6-kilometre (mile-long) cave has more than 1,000 carved figures, both animals and stylised feminine forms. Scientists have dated them to between 26,000 and 35,000 years ago, the time of the ...
You’ve heard it before: we’re well into the sixth mass extinction of life on earth.Only this time, unlike the other five big ones, humans are overwhelmingly the killers responsible.
Lascaux, though some distance from the well-known cave sites near LesEyzies, is after all not so far away from them, and local folk knew by hearsay all about such places as Font de Gaume ...
The Lascaux cave complex contains more than 600 paintings and around 1500 engravings of animals, abstract symbols, and a single human-like figure. (Humans are rarely depicted in any of the ...
All evidence suggests that anthropogenic change– human-induced catastrophes, from global climate crisis, habitat destruction, pollution– that can be light pollution, chemical pollution, invasive ...
It was a stressful time in New Orleans. The 20th century had dawned and, a decade in, the world felt unmistakably as if it were on the verge of changes, big and small, ready or not.