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Why Africa’s newest super-bridge is in the continent’s weirdest border zone
The Kazungula Bridge connects Zambia and Botswana, barely missing Namibia and Zimbabwe.
Is the global economy sexist?
Answer: When 22 men make more money than all of the women in Africa, an Oxfam study says absolutely.
North Atlantic Current could stop within the next century
New research suggests the ocean current that delivers warm water to Europe has a one-in-six chance of halting temporarily over the next hundred years, potentially resulting in freezing temperatures.
New membrane enables us to harvest ‘osmotic’ energy from water
You've likely heard of solar energy, but what is osmotic energy?
Illegal sand mining in India is fatefully hurting gharial crocodiles, Ganges River dolphins
In India, a construction boom is fueling a criminal enterprise around one of the most ubiquitous substances on Earth: sand.
The world’s watersheds, mapped in gorgeous detail
Hungarian cartographer travels the world while mapping its treasures.
10 of Europe’s weirdest laws
Amongst other things, you can't get away with handling a salmon suspiciously in Scotland.
‘Aquatic life is bathing in a soup of antidepressants,’ says marine biologist
Antidepressants are destroying underwater ecosystems, which we in turn eat.