The Natural World
Neanderthals died out 40,000 years ago, but there has never been more of their DNA on Earth
Published: August 31, 2022 12.40pm EDT in The Conversation theconversation.com
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Lose Your Lawn, Part 2
Rethinking the Lawn
By Tim Traver
This spring, we went the no-mow route on about a quarter-acre of our lawn, the last remaining g...
Lose Your Lawn, Part 1
by Stephen Morris
How did we become a nation of manicured, toxic lawns? How did a lowly perennial that imitates a carpet become ...
Loon Vocalizations: More Than Meets the Ear
The Outside Story
By Laurie D. Morrissey
On the New Hampshire lake where I spend much of the summer, loon calls are so common tha...
Bambi’s Mum had to Die
from Unherd.com by way of The Browser Newsletter
Walt Disney was working through guilt and grief
BY DANIEL KALDER
Whe...
In Praise of Barns
by Margaret Osha (with a little help from her friends)
Farming is a lifestyle occupation with work and responsibility continuing day...
Lightning … Splitting the Air
Splitting the Air: The Unexpected Chemistry of Lightning
By Kenrick Vezina
To say that lightning “splits” the sky is no mere poet...
Peru’s Incan Rope Bridges Are Hanging by a Thread
By Lidio Valdez and Cirilo Vivanco
Published originally in Sapiens Magazine
One early January morning in the mid-1980s after a da...
Experience: I look after the world’s oldest potted plant
He was brought to the UK in 1775. He’s a gentle giant who just gets on with life
by Brie Langley as published in The Guardian, J...
The Understory
Striped Maple Provides Food & Shelter in the Understory
By Susan Shea
Beneath the forest canopy, or overstory, of towerin...