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• How the Amazon’s lost cities worked
WASHINGTON - Roads and canals connected walled cities and villages. The communities were laid out around central plazas. Nearby, smaller settlements focused on agriculture and fish farming. The place: the now-overgrown jungles of Brazil. The time ...
• 'A nightmare scenario'
Southern Haiti is prone to devastating floods because its mountainous terrain has been stripped of trees for farming. In the Haitian capital, the chocolate waters of a river spilled over its banks, lapping at shacks in the Cite Soleil slum.
• Mental ills may have an evolutionary upside
Cooperative relationships were critical to ensuring access to food, whether through farming or more strategic hunting, and those with blunt social skills were unlikely to survive, explained David C.
• Egypt septuplets stir debate on fertility drugs
Though she was ready to leave days after the birth, she remains hospitalized because she has nowhere to stay in Alexandria, a four-hour drive from her farming village of Ezbat Emara.
• Fighting fires
Nowhere have such changes occurred more profoundly than in the American West, where farming and grazing in the 19th century, rapid development during the 20th century and a long history of aggressively fighting wildfires have left an indelible mark ...