In the 1880s, American farmers learned to rotate .....to restore soil fertility and prevent disease, marking the start of soil conservation.

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A 410-million-year-old fossil shows ancient lichens were shaping Earth’s surface long before forests took root.

Researchers uncovered a 2.75–2.44 million-year-old site in Kenya showing that early humans maintained stone tool traditions for nearly 300,000 years despite extreme climate swings. The tools, ...

Though the settlers used trees for shelter, barns, fences and heat, they saw trees as one of their greatest enemies when it ...

Stone tools reveal that the First Americans followed a coastal route from East Asia, linking both sides of the Pacific during the Ice Age.

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“Gentilly: A New Orleans Plantation in the French Atlantic World, 1818-1851” by Nathalie Dessens and Virginia Meacham Gould, Louisiana State University Press, 288 pages. I had long assumed that New ...

Miss Major Griffin-Gracy, an early activist for transgender rights and one of the protesters in the Stonewall Inn riots that sparked the modern movement for LGBTQ+ equality, has died. She was 78. Miss ...

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