Ice Age Footprints review: Ancient humans’ arrival in North America
23 May 2022
This documentary tracks the quest for the oldest human footprints in North America, and what they can tell us about when people first arrived on the continent
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Photographer documents the fight to save pangolins from extinction
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Pangolins are the most illegally trafficked mammal. This image from a new photographic series features the efforts by conservationists to halt their decline before the creatures go extinct
Vikings probably hunted Iceland's walruses to extinction for ivory
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Iceland had a unique population of walruses that disappeared after people first settled there – probably because the Vikings hunted them to extinction
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Half of life on Earth has vanished since we arrived on the scene
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The biomass of living organisms on the planet has halved since human civilisation began, and humans now outweigh all wild mammals tenfold
Harsh: Europe's cannabis died just as the first farmers arrived
17 May 2018
Cannabis – the source of the drug marijuana – virtually disappeared from Europe just as farmers arrived, so they didn’t get the chance to grow it for another 4500 years
Stem cells may reveal how Neanderthal DNA works in modern humans
11 May 2018
Many of us carry DNA inherited from Neanderthals, but we can’t be sure how it affects us. Stem cells with Neanderthal DNA could tell us
Much of nature is near collapse and that means society is too
23 March 2018
An assessment of Earth’s biodiversity predicts catastrophic losses within decades, with severe knock-on effects for human civilisation like shortages of food
Rare wooden tools show that Neanderthals got creative with fire
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Wooden tools are hardly ever preserved, but a cache found in Italy suggests Neanderthals made them with fire and used them to dig up foods like tubers
