National Geographic - UK (2022-02)

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CONTENTS

FURTHER

ADVENTURE

Water Garden

The Mekong River is

home to rafts of water

lilies—and, increasingly,

plastic pollution. The

National Geographic

Society is helping fund

research on the issue.

BY RACHEL NG; PHOTO-

GRAPH BY KHÁNH PHAN

THROUGH THE LENS

The Conflict Zone

Ugandan villagers’

clashes with chimps

raise tricky questions

about conservation

and coexistence.

STORY AND PHOTOGRAPHS

BY RONAN DONOVAN

24

ALSO

A Shrew’s Brain

Mulch From Coffee?

THE BIG IDEA

On the Trail

of Julius Caesar

We might imagine

meeting the Roman

emperor face-to-face—

but how do we know

what he actually

looked like?

BY MARY BEARD

BREAKTHROUGHS

Scat Scan Discovery

Scientists could iden-

tify beetle fossils as a

new species because

they were preserved

so well in 230-million-

year-old ... feces.

BY HICKS WOGAN

17

A Family’s Valor

With the timeless

look of tintypes to

bind the past and

present, a photogra-

pher pays tribute to

the armed forces

members in his family.

PHOTOGRAPHS BY

RASHOD TAYLOR

8

On the Cover

During preparation for

a faithful restoration of

Notre Dame Cathedral in

Paris, white canopies pro-

tect gaping wounds left by

the devastating 2019 fire.

TOMAS VAN HOUTRYVE

FEBRUARY 2022

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