Ancient hallucinogens found in 1,000-year-old shamanic pouch

The ritual container, made of three fox snouts, contains the earliest known evidence of ayahuasca preparation. The pouch likely belonged to a shaman in what is now southwestern Bolivia around a thousand years ago, according to José Capriles, an anthropologist at Penn State University Read the rest of the story by Erin Blakemore on National […]

Climate change being fuelled by soil damage – report

Climate change can’t be halted if we carry on degrading the soil, a report will say. There’s three times more carbon in the soil than in the atmosphere – but that carbon’s being released by deforestation and poor farming. Read more: https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/science-environment-48043134

Nature loss: Major report to highlight ‘natural and human emergency’

Scientists and government officials meet this week in Paris to finalise a key assessment on humanity’s relationship with nature. apple.news/Aw5OGFuhmSBSJeMloRdT1wQ

Half of all land must be kept in a natural state to protect Earth

New science says land conservation must double by 2030 to prevent dangerous warming and unravelling of ecosystems apple.news/Aha8orDK0Sb-h0HIB8IqIVw

Five British dinosaurs you’ve (probably) never heard of

Professor Paul Barrett celebrates some of lesser known dinosaurs from the British Isles. apple.news/ALiF-BJjzQPaTmT26rmqGEw

Lost river returns to Somerset 70 years after it dried up

Restoration of unnamed tributary of River Chew offers new habitat for rare wildlife http://www.theguardian.com/environment/2019/apr/12/lost-river-returns-somerset-70-years-after-dried-up

Ring of Brodgar: 4,000-year-old stone circle vandalised with graffiti in ‘mindless act’

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Avebury’s Stone Circles May Have Honored Neolithic Dwelling

SOUTHAMPTON, ENGLAND—Ground-penetrating radar has revealed traces of a structure within the southern stone circle at Avebury, according to a Live Science report. It had been previously thought that the structure dated to the medieval period, but Josh Pollard of the University of Southampton and his colleagues say its shape matches other structures in the British Isles that are […]

Burnt body of British environmental activist found in Peru

Paul McAuley, 71, had helped Amazon tribes fight against the onslaught of oil and gas companies apple.news/AbWx1OZtZPDWljm0dUkfBvg

Concerns mount over plans for two-mile road tunnel past Stonehenge

Highways England claims scheme will improve travel and visits to site but many oppose it. http://www.theguardian.com/uk-news/2019/apr/02/concerns-grow-as-plans-for-a303-road-tunnel-past-stonehenge-enters-new-phase I have more concerns over the people who came up with this ridiculous idea in the first place.