Nepal has issued 492 Everest climbing permits this season, with concerns about inexperienced climbers and waste again at the center of debate Nepali lawmakers have proposed that climbers seeking permission to climb Mount Everest should first summit at least one 7,000m peak in the country, part of a wider move to tighten access to the … Read more
Long before Stonehenge became one of the world’s most famous prehistoric monuments, a group of people living on the edge of the Sahara Desert were observing the movement of the sky. In a landscape that is now one of the driest places on earth, they built a small but striking arrangement of stones that marks … Read more
Long before growing crops or raising livestock, people living in what is now southern Norway were making lasting changes to the natural world around them. High in the mountains, where lakes are beyond the range of natural migratory fish, communities appear to have brought brown trout to isolated waters and created places where they can … Read more