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1. First Animals at Oxford University Natural History Museum review: (Exhibitions); ... Many of the other fossils are more discernible, with clear creatures imprinted onto the stone. Wormy things, fishy things, even pineapple-like things – it’s these remarkable fossils that really convey ...; Created on 02 August 2019
2. Why Apollo 11’s giant leap gives us hope for climate change today: (Opinions); ... bonds of gravity or financial markets fixated with infinite economic growth, it remains possible that we can slip the status quo and push for a new frontier – a glimpse of divinity. From Blue Marble to Blue ...; Created on 25 July 2019
3. Following in the footsteps of the first Western explorer in southwest China: (Explorers); ... and even an airport. Tourism here has been cannily marketed. 160km north, the town of Shangri-la is a gateway to the vast Tibetan Plateau, sacred Mt Meili and the stupendous gorges of the upper Yangtse ...; Created on 23 July 2019
4. Off the Scale: How the latest tech is cracking the earthquake code: (Tectonics); In the 4th century BC, Aristotle proposed that earthquakes were caused by winds trapped in subterranean caves. Small tremors were triggered by air pushing on the cavern roofs, large ones by air breaking ...; Created on 12 July 2019
5. Rolex Laureates – 2019 winners announced: (Development); ... marks and measures an arapaima (Image: Rolex/Marc Latzel) João Campos-Silva, 36, Brazil In the Amazon, the giant arapaima, the world’s largest scaled freshwater fish, which weighs up to 200kg, i ...; Created on 14 June 2019
6. Dossier: Tobacco's big child labour problem: (Development); ... market where traders could buy such crops. Otañez says that improving labour conditions on tobacco farms while moving to other crops can go hand in hand; but he recognises this has to be done judiciously. ...; Created on 10 May 2019
7. Southeast Asia swapping opium with coffee: (Development); ... to be of a high grade – a challenge for individual farmers. ‘What is important to note is that the opium farming communities are very poor, with very limited access to markets,’ says Erlend Falch, an alternative ...; Created on 16 October 2018
8. TASTING THE PAST: The Science of Flavor & the Search for the Origins of Wine: (Books); ... market is worth more than $300 billion, with total production in 2016 reaching almost 26 billion litres. As author Kevin Begos puts it: ‘The modern wine industry [looks] more and more like a dressed-up ...; Created on 05 October 2018
9. Bali: an enduring culture: (Expeditions); The rice paddies of Bali are being converted into luxury guesthouses. Mark Rowe visits to find out how tourism and lack of regulation is affecting the way of life for Balinese people
...; Created on 04 October 2018
10. Reclaiming Ibiza: More than a party: (Expeditions); Mark Rowe walks the rugged coast of the party island of Ibiza to discover its quieter side and the people working to keep it that way I’ve been walking for three hours when I finally reach Calo de ...; Created on 12 September 2018
11. Divided island: an Arctic dispute: (Geopolitics); Steps are being taken to resolve the heated question of who owns a remote Arctic island claimed by both Canada and Denmark Far up in the high Arctic, a thin channel – only 26km across at the narrowest ...; Created on 27 July 2018
12. The human game – tackling football’s ‘slave trade’: (Development); Few would argue with football’s position as the world’s number one sport. But as Mark Rowe discovers, this global popularity is masking a sinister underbelly with human traffickers using the bright lights ...; Created on 16 July 2018
13. Essential oil?: (Forests); ... during the day. What is perhaps even more remarkable is the enormous growth in palm oil production. From a mere two million tonnes being produced annually globally half a century ago, and only five million ...; Created on 03 July 2018
14. Replanting the Hebrides: (UK); ... a link to the past.’ Mark Rowe is the author of The Outer Hebrides, the Western Isles of Scotland from Lewis to Barra, published by Bradt ...; Created on 22 June 2018
15. Gunnerside Gill: romantic ruins, poisonous past: (Discovering Britain); ... brown colour of the water comes from filtering through the peat,’ says Crow. ‘It looks dirty but is actually very clean.’ There is still lead ore under the gill, but the market collapsed with cheaper ...; Created on 04 April 2018
16. Taking it to the street: a guide to street photography: (Geophoto); ... to capture an image of someone going about their business in a local market, striding into a shop, or crossing the street. It wasn’t until the advent of the smaller 35mm format, first used with the ...; Created on 19 March 2018
17. BENEATH ANOTHER SKY: A Global Journey Into History: (Books); ... He wonders if, ‘like the ageing Ulysses of Lord Tennyson’ he was ‘just another “gray spirit” who was yearning for one last adventure,’ but far more was achieved. To wit, the crowning glory of a remarkable ...; Created on 09 February 2018
18. Island man: survival in Panama: (Explorers); ... from his pack). Marking its outline in the sand, we then dig down to the water level, creating a slightly narrower hole than the polythene sheet that is to cover it. Branches of deciduous leaves are thrown ...; Created on 15 January 2018
19. Finding a future: the fate of St Helena: (Cultures); A British Overseas Territory, the home-in-exile of General Napoleon Bonaparte, and the site of a £285million airport to which the airlines won’t fly. Mark ‘Crowley’ Russell visits a remote outpost on the ...; Created on 27 December 2017
20. Lewis Pugh: In the zone: (Oceans); ... trademark Speedos in a small Zodiac dingy in the Antarctic Ocean. The wind chill that day at the Ross Sea was –37°C and the salt water temperature was –1°C. Diving overboard, he began the most southerly ...; Created on 01 December 2017

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