The simpler approach is usually the best, whether you’re talking about writing a news story, building an airplane, or, in the case of one of this week’s finds, turning deserts green.
Bunding, an ancient and low-tech building style, has a profound effect on degraded lands in two disparate places.
In Tanzania, farmers use dams – barriers, at their most basic level, are just piles of land – you have taken He was thirsty and grazing and the earth eroded and turned green. Barriers trap running water from the ground and allow it to penetrate the ground.
Planted grass seeds grow inside the embankments, and over time the greenery extends beyond, dramatically changing the landscape.
Similar techniques are peatland restoration, Waterlogged landscapes that contain huge stores of carbon in soil, in Northern Ireland, potentially improving the quality of drinking water there.
dig this
The Lost Cities can have a strong appeal to the imagination, and archaeologists working in Iraqi Kurdistan believe they may have located one.
Excavations of a 2,000-year-old castle in the Zagros Mountains have revealed fortifications about 2.5 miles (4 km) long, two small settlements, carved rock reliefs and a religious complex.
The team believes that the ruins may be part of a lost royal city called Natounia. The community was part of Adiabene, a small kingdom that paid tribute to the neighboring Parthian Empire, which spanned parts of Iran and Mesopotamia.
Only the city is known Because of the insignificant details obtained from rare coins, but archaeologists carefully collected evidence found during excavations at the ancient site.
wild kingdom
The Patagonian ice dragon is what scientists call extremes, or an organism that can live in harsh environments.
It is an apt name for an insect that lives on the ice of the Andes in South America. The tiny insect is rare because the glaciers it calls home are rapidly melting due to global warming. Entomologist Isaí Madríz strives to learn all about the mysterious The inner workings of an endangered species, including why you’re unlikely to see a baby ice dragon.
His research is featured in a new CNN documentary series, “Patagonia: Life at the Edge of the World,” which explores one of the wildest places on Earth. Watch the last episode at 9PM EST/PT on Sunday. Each new episode of the six-part series will be available on CNNgo the day after it airs on TV. You can also access CNNgo in our CNN app.
around the universe
Black holes are a powerful cosmic phenomenon, but they do not emit any light. This means that finding someone could require several years of astronomers’ investigative work.
Researchers known as the “black hole police” say after exposing previous discoveries that they have found an elusive type of black hole outside our galaxy for the first time.
The newly discovered space object is located in the Large Magellanic Cloud, a neighboring galaxy, at least nine times the mass of our sun. Called VFTS 243, it orbits a hot blue star that weighs 25 times the mass of the Sun, making it part of a binary system.
The astronomers said they were confident their discovery was solid.
Dino Sauce
A sharp-eyed diner in a restaurant in China’s Sichuan Province has unearthed 100 million-year-old dinosaur footprints.
The prints in the restaurant’s patio belong to two sauropods – plant-eating dinosaurs famous for their Long neck and tail, according to paleontologist Lida Xing of the China University of Geosciences in Wuhan, whom the dinner called.
Rapidly developing China is enjoying a golden age for dinosaur discoveries, but Cheng said paleontologists like him should be fast off the mark. He tries to check any potential finds spotted by the public within 48 hours for fear of being destroyed by construction work.
In this case, he was lucky. The owner of the restaurant fenced off the site to prevent people from trampling on the pits and may build a shed to protect them.
wonder
Enjoy out-of-this-world readings:
Getting ready to take off to the moon. NASA has announced a launch window for the giant Artemis I lunar rocket.
– The James Webb Space Telescope has cast an amazing light on a planet in our cosmic world Backyard.
Martian droppings? NASA’s Roving Probe captured a photo of a small bundle of string while exploring an ancient delta called Jezero Crater.