by magicartacivics@proton.me | Jan 16, 2026 | Uncategorized
When a significant coral bleaching event swept across the reefs of Mauritius last summer, one small group of corals remained as vibrant as ever. While neighboring wild reefs experienced bleaching rates as high as 80%, Dr. Nadeem Nazurally’s reefs experienced just as...
by magicartacivics@proton.me | Jan 16, 2026 | Uncategorized
A joint archaeological mission from China and Uzbekistan has uncovered the walls of an important Silk Road city. After 2 years of excavations, the team has discovered the foundations of palaces, city gates, residential buildings, the layout of streets, and craft...
by magicartacivics@proton.me | Jan 15, 2026 | Uncategorized
Youth comes with gifts: one of them is the inability to recognize when you should be intimidated. When two teenagers in New Delhi wanted to do something to improve the city’s waste collection, age and experience would have told them that they were out of their minds....
by magicartacivics@proton.me | Jan 15, 2026 | Uncategorized
Between 2022 and 2023, scientists in Saudi Arabia began a survey of over 1,000 caves, hoping to find preserved remains of ancient animals to infer modern rewilding strategies. Whatever modest results they might have allowed themselves to hope for, they almost...
by magicartacivics@proton.me | Jan 15, 2026 | Uncategorized
Over the decades, a glacier in Central Asia appears to have been growing when almost every other glacier on Earth has been shrinking. Now, a scientific expedition has recovered ice cores containing 30,000 years of frozen water in the hopes that somewhere inside lies...
by magicartacivics@proton.me | Jan 15, 2026 | Uncategorized
On Christmas Eve, the Central Asian nation of Kyrgyzstan inaugurated its first solar power plant, one that will power a small city and cut 120,000 tons of CO2 emissions annually. The 100-megawatt installation will generate 210 million kWh of clean electricity...
by magicartacivics@proton.me | Jan 14, 2026 | Uncategorized
For 600 years, the waters off Copenhagen have hidden an exceptional secret. Now, maritime archaeologists from the Viking Ship Museum in Denmark reveal the discovery of the world’s largest “cog,” a medieval cargo ship whose size and previously unknown construction...
by magicartacivics@proton.me | Jan 14, 2026 | Uncategorized
Engaged to be wed this month, a young Texan wrangled the support of an entire preschool class to throw his fiancée a surprise bridal shower. Walking into her preschool class at Shlenker school in Houston, Zoe Kampf was surprised by a troupe of children dressed in...
by magicartacivics@proton.me | Jan 14, 2026 | Uncategorized
When an Air Canada flight from Montreal to St. Johns was forced down on the tarmac in a small city during bad weather last week, the passengers were probably cursing their luck. But that’s only because they didn’t know at the time where they had landed. Gander,...
by magicartacivics@proton.me | Jan 14, 2026 | Uncategorized
The Bageni family has a pair of blue balloons outside their mailbox, after this Congolese gorilla clan welcomed twins. Now numbering 59 individuals, the twins were born to an adult female named Makufu, who will be closely monitored during the babies’ childhood....
