Six on Geography and Science: Why Whales Got So Big; Porcupine Salt Cravings; Solar Power Is Burning Bright. But It’s Hardly Twilight for Fossil Fuels; Evolution On Trial: The Weird Backstory Of The Scopes Monkey Case; UK scientists unable to provide agent source - but Russia still blamed; Tomb paintings hold clues to the ancient Egyptian desire to bring order out of chaos;
Why Whales Got So Big
"It’s often said that the ocean releases them from the constraints of life on land. It’s actually the opposite."
A woman in a barren field on the edge of Befoly, a village once surrounded by trees. Until they were all gone, Befoly supplied charcoal to Toliara..jpg
A woman in Toliara, Madagascar, cooking with charcoal, which is cleaner and easier to use than firewood, and cheaper and more readily available than gas or electricity.jpg
An artist’s interpretation of Sinosauropteryx, a dinosaur that researchers say had a camouflage pattern on its feathers similar to that of modern mammals, like gazelles and pronghorns.jpg
A Balinese man watches Mount Agung volcano almost covered with clouds as he stands at a temple in Karangasem, Bali, Indonesia. An increasing frequency of tremors from the volcano indicates magma is continuing to move.jpg
A group of friends with their 1,200 sheep are some of the dozens of shepherds who spend their summers in the Tusheti mountains. It will take them three days to move from their village down to the safety of the plains.jpg