Tag: centuries
Biodiversity: in the space of a few centuries, one in ten animal species could have become extinct
Benoît Fontaine is a research engineer. He works for the National Museum of Natural History and the French Office for Biodiversity. Along with two other researchers, he has just published…
Thousands of witches tortured and killed three centuries ago to be pardoned by Scotland
REHABILITATION – Tortured and executed on suspicion of witchcraft, thousands of victims, most of them women, could be pardoned by the Scottish government centuries after the fact. A bill received…
Plastic straw, the scourge of the oceans for centuries and centuries
AKATRE FOR “THE WORLD” If we are looking for a quintessence of videos summarizing our time and its absurdity, the one where we see a poor sea turtle with a…
eight centuries of “currency controversy”
Tribune. In 1842, the British politician William Gladstone (1809-1898), then Member of Parliament, observed that “Love itself has not made more people lose their heads than ruminations on the essence…