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A park ranger abseiling into a hidden canyon near Sydney in 1994 stumbled onto a grove that should not have existed the Wollemi pine, known only from 90-million-year-old fossils, with fewer than 100 left, in a spot Australia keeps secret (opens the original)
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In 1994, David Noble, an off-duty field officer with the New South Wales National Parks and Wildlife Service, was abseiling in the remote Wollemi Wilderness northwest of Sydney. When he reached the canyon floor, he was standing among tall trees he did not recognise. Knobbly, bubbled bark. Fern-like leaves. Nothing he knew matched them. He took a branch home. That single cutting turned out to be one of the odder botanical stories of the last century. Within months, botanists had a name for it: th
Between five and six million years ago o the Mediterranean nearly dried up, then the Atlantic refilled it in a flood that may have raised sea levels by more than ten metres a day (opens the original)
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Picture the Mediterranean almost gone. Not merely lowered or shrunk, but reduced to separated hypersaline basins sitting far below the ocean outside. That is not a thought experiment. It happened, and the rock under the seafloor still carries the receipt. The event has a name that sounds oddly bureaucratic for something this large: the Messinian Salinity Crisis. By the best current reckoning it ran from 5.97 to 5.33 million years ago. What strikes me is how ordinary the trigger was. The slow con
One of the most desert-covered nations on Earth has to buy its sand from abroad, and the reason is grain-deep wind has polished Arabian sand too smooth to bind in concrete, so Saudi Arabia imports construction sand from as far as Australia (opens the original)
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Saudi Arabia sits on some of the largest sand deserts on the planet, including the Rub’ al Khali, the Empty Quarter, an ocean of dunes big enough to swallow small countries, yet it also buys natural sand from other countries. Some of it travels all the way from Australia. A country drowning in sand imports the stuff. The obvious question is why. If you have more sand than almost anyone alive, why pay to ship it in? For concrete, the answer isn’t only about how much sand there is. It’s about the
The plain cotton T-shirt in your drawer carries a hidden price tag measured not in money but in water around 2,700 litres went into making it, as much drinking water as one person gets through in two and a half years (opens the original)
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A single plain cotton T-shirt, the kind that costs a few dollars and lives in a drawer until it becomes a rag, has a water footprint of roughly 2,700 litres. That is about what one person drinks in 900 days at three litres a day. Nearly two and a half years of drinking water, poured into a garment you can buy without thinking. We treat water as effectively free and endless, so a number this big just slides off. But it is not a rhetorical flourish. Most of the water is spent before the cotton is
In a corner of Death Valley, heavy stones leave long trails across the mud, yet no one ever saw them move until time-lapse cameras caught them sliding on wafer-thin rafts of overnight ice, nudged along by the lightest breeze (opens the original)
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Picture a flat, cracked lakebed in the desert, dead still under a hard sky. Scattered across it are rocks, some the size of a microwave, each sitting at the end of a long groove in the mud, as if something had dragged them and then vanished. Some trails run straight. Some curve. Some make sharp turns. For decades, nobody could say what did the dragging, because nobody had ever seen it happen. The place is Racetrack Playa, in Death Valley National Park, and its “sailing stones” are one of those p
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