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Mountains of fire: what hillwalking with my father taught me about the origins of oil exploration
Dad was a hillwalker, but the Munro Book was written by mountaineers. It contained sentences such as: “A pleasantly airy ...
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The guerilla campaign to save a Texas prairie from "silent extinction"
Students and naturalists have been sneaking onto private land to extricate threatened native plants: “This is a war between ...
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Earth's continents are drying out at unprecedented rate, satellite data reveal
The US West Coast is the world's worst mega-drying region. The world is losing fresh water at an unprecedented rate, two ...
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Football’s Global Journey: A Map-Based Exploration of the Game’s History and Growth
Football, known as soccer in some countries, is the world’s most beloved sport, uniting millions across cultures and continents. But how did this “beautiful game” grow from informal local matches into ...
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The 1914 World Order: What If We Kept Pre-WWI Borders in Today’s Global Landscape?
What if the world’s borders had frozen in time, unchanged since 1914, just before the outbreak of World War I? In this ...