‘We feel truly alive’: meet the ‘liveaboards’ sailing away to a new life

It can be challenging, but the rewards are enormous, and you don’t have to be rich to be an ocean voyager. By Sally Howard
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Canada has a quarter of world's soil carbon. Keeping it in the ground could curb climate change, experts say | CBC News

Canada stores about a quarter of all the soil carbon in the world, a new study has found, putting a spotlight on the country's role in preventing that carbon from being released into the atmosphere and exacerbating global warming.
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Australia's Massive Bushfires Spawned a Dramatic Heat Anomaly in The Stratosphere

Massive swathes of wilderness and the lives of billions of animals were extinguished into ash and smoke during Australia's Black Summer bushfires.
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Why there's no 'Dijon' in Dijon mustard

France is facing a widespread dearth of Dijon mustard, which news outlets wasted no time in attributing to the war in Ukraine. But the story is a whole lot spicier than that.
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7-million-year-old limb fossils may be from the earliest known hominid

An earlier report on one of the bones of a 7-million-year-old creature that may have walked upright has triggered scientific misconduct charges.
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The world has never seen a heat wave quite like China's 70-day streak

The event has affected well over 100 million people, and further disrupted global supply chains.
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Walrus Freya who became attraction in Norway's Oslo Fjord put down

Freya had to be euthanised because the public went too close to her, officials said.
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Traffic congestion charge would boost air quality in New York City, study finds

Charge of up to $23 a day would reduce number of cars entering Manhattan by 15-20%, assessment says
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Why humans have more voice control than any other primates

Unlike all other studied primates, humans lack vocal membranes. That lets humans produce the sounds that language is built on, a new study suggests.
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Will Europe Force a Facebook Blackout?

Regulators are close to stopping Meta from sending EU data to the US, bringing a years-long privacy battle to a head.
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What's brewing?

I got a last minute request to paint a mural at an old brewery here in Belgium. This post will be updated once in a while so you can follow the process. Are you ready?
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Shape of human brain has barely changed in past 160,000 years

An analysis of fossils suggests changes in the shape of the braincase during human evolution were linked to alterations in the face, rather than changes in the brain itself
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