Hollow Earth

Digging up the past

9 Feb 2012

(PhysOrg.com) -- Researchers at the University of St Andrews have discovered what they think are the remains of our earliest known ancestor.

Hope dwarfs museums to betrayal

8 Feb 2012

Ratiya Ram, subsistence farmer in the fields off Nandganj, a highway hamlet en route, can't remember things any different from his grandfather's time. "Upjao-becho, upjao-becho, aur kya karenge hum? (Grow and sell, grow and sell, what else is there for us to do?)" He never went to school, he has not sent any of his four children either. "Khet mein kaam kaun karega? (Who will work in the fields ...

Other Voices: The Emptied Forests of Sarawak

8 Feb 2012

The world's richest forest, in plant species, loses its animals to unchecked hunting and surrounding development.