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Specimens collected on Voyage of the Beagle have been unearthed at Cambridge University archive

John, 78, and Anna, 48, became friends on a travel website in 2008. When war broke out in Ukraine, John welcomed Anna to his home in Finland – and they’re still flatmates• Tell us your story of how you met someone special

Coral larvae more likely to settle on degraded reefs bathed in marine soundscapes, Caribbean study shows

A global network of violent predators is hiding in plain sight, targeting children on major platforms, grooming them, and extorting them to commit horrific acts of abuse.

The deep red lip-paint found at an ancient graveyard site in what is now southern Iran is identified.

An interview with a Pulitzer-winning data journalist about how she covers Gaza.

Exclusive: Paper by UCL professor says ‘wobbly’ space-time could instead explain expansion of universe and galactic rotation

Shibuya district is offering tours of its architect-designed public facilities that feature in Perfect Days

Study suggests dogs with POMC are hungrier between meals and burn fewer calories when at rest

The fossilised Calamophyton remains show how early trees helped shape landscapes and stabilise riverbanks millions of years ago

Deliberately fashioned chipped stones date back more than 1m years and may have been used by homo erectus

Duvel Moortgat Brewery was hit by a ransomware attack late last night, bringing to a halt the beer production in the company's bottling facilities

Research suggests every extra step up to 10,000 reduces risk even if rest of the day is sedentary

Built for Punjabi migrants brought to Africa by the British and modeled on Mughal architecture, the Jamia Masjid in Nairobi serves Kenya’s Muslim minority.

The Jamia Masjid in Nairobi is an impressive sight. Located in the central business district of the bustling city, the mosque boasts striking domes and minarets that might call to mind the Taj Mahal. As art historian Steven Nelson writes, the story of how the building was designed that way offers a window into the complicated cultural exchanges within the British Empire.

While travelers and traders had long linked the Indian subcontinent and East Africa, Nelson writes, a new influx of South Asians arrived in Kenya when the British colonial government began construction of the Uganda Railway at the end of the nineteenth century. Between 1895 and 1901, almost 32,000 Indians—almost all men, largely Muslims from the Punjab region—traveled to Africa to work on the project. It was brutal work, and nearly 2,500 of them died during that time. Most who survived returned to India, but around 6,700 stayed.

The railroad project also brought the establishment of the brand-new city of Nairobi, which became the capital of British East Africa and a hub for the Punjabi community. By 1909, there were more than 3,000 Indians in Nairobi, far more than the number of Europeans in the city.

From the beginning, Indian Muslims in East Africa built mosques for themselves. The first were temporary structures assembled with corrugated iron sheets that the British used in the railroad project.

read more: https://daily.jstor.org/a-mughal-mosque-in-kenya/

Dillon and his newborn son Archer Glass each had a one in 1,461 chance of being born on a leap day

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What has been the impact of the Smokehouse Creek fire in the Texas Panhandle, and what could happen now?

Attack on juvenile is thought to be first known time a lone orca has hunted down a great white

Loaned pandas around the world have been returning to China in an attempt to ramp up the breeding of the endangered species.

WESTERN PROVINCE, Kenya — In the 44 years Naomi Rita Sitati has lived in Bukirimo village in western Kenya, she has known only one system of farming, which her community has depended on for generations.

Cultivating sugarcane as the only crop in large plots is a common practice in the region, which is part of the larger Nile Basin, and Sitati was happy with it. Apart from creating jobs for thousands of Kenyans throughout the agriculture value chain, it’s a foreign exchange earner for Kenya, and a popular domestic sweetener.

All along, Sitati knew growing sugarcane was a monoculture system and was comfortable with it. Lately, however, she’s begun questioning that after witnessing its destructive effects on soils and the environment.

Its impact on the region’s food supplies and biodiversity has been high, and over the years, she has seen the system accelerate deforestation and dependency on industrial agrochemicals to boost production.

read more: https://news.mongabay.com/2024/02/nile-basin-farmers-grow-food-forests-to-restore-wetlands-and-bring-back-a-turtle/

CBT and MBI shown to help with quality of life and to lesser extent anxiety and depression

The sea of chanting, nearly-naked men tussle, push and shove towards the shrine. "Washoi! Washoi!" they yell - let's go, let's go.

The Korean company has already paid a total of €4.8 million to employees who have given birth since 2021 in a bid to halt plunging birth dates in the country.

Scientists have worked out how some of the largest whales in the ocean produce their haunting and complex songs.