Night on a Bald Mountain

Pre-Columbian farmers in the Andes lived peacefully with migrants. Human molecular and microbial diversity are linked with geography and ethnicity. The high-tech shipbuilding methods that helped Vikings dominate the seas. The Somalian coastal towns swallowed by sand and by rivers. Somalis are suffering as worthless shillings pile up. The man who blew up a nuclear power station and disappeared. Nearly 50,000 Lake Tahoe residents face losing power to data centres. Tracy Arm’s post-tsunami landscape. Seven shipping containers in Antarctica have floated away on an iceberg. New Orleans has passed the point of no return. The little-known Australian behind solar power’s meteoric rise (via Mefi). Renewable energy is more cost effective at reducing carbon than direct air capture. A graphene patch for skin tumour treatment. A filter that eliminates 96% of microplastics from drinking water, invented by a high schooler. Where microplastics are going on holiday this year. A night on a freezing…