National Geographic - UK (2022-05)

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EXPLORE | THE BIG IDEA We need to shift away from a detached, exploitive relationship with nature toward one that is close, prot ...

PHOTOS (CLOCKWISE FROM TOP): ZOONAR GMBH/ALAMY STOCK PHOTO; CHRISTIAN MOHR; DEBORAH ROSE Saving Seeds, by More Means An estimate ...

Strobilus Megaspores Actual size shown (1/25 inch in diameter) Guangdedendron era (372-359 MYA) Major volcanic activity Atmosphe ...

Cladoxylopsid trees Archaeopteris trees Modern trees Guangdedendron Lycopsid trees 400 MYA TODAY DEVONIAN PERIOD (419-359 MYA) A ...

Distant view of tombs at Dadan. Photograph by Matthieu Paley Kingdoms of the Dadanites and Lihyanites ...

PAID CONTENT FOR ROYAL COMMISSION FOR ALULA More than two millennia ago, AlUla’s verdant oasis nurtured the growth of sophistica ...

With trade came new ideas, new expressions in art, and new ways of writing. Dadan developed its own writing system, based on scr ...

were cultural interactions with neighboring cultures in Egypt, the Levant, Mesopotamia, and southern Arabia, it’s likely that th ...

PHOTO: ERIKA LARSEN EXPLORE | PLANET POSSIBLE Stroll a canopy walkway, take a tree-climbing class, find forest lodgings, play le ...

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ACROSS A STEEP CANYON, a ghost floats in the darkness—a phantom in this redwood forest, somewhere in California’s Santa Cruz Cou ...

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Santa Cruz CALIF. OREG. Coast redwood range (Sequoia sempervirens) Coast redwood range (Sequoia sempervirens) UNITED STATES UNIT ...

EXPLORE Albinos may look delicate, but they’re survivors: Their white shoots are often among the fastest to regrow from flame-da ...

BY CRAIG WELCH HEAT AND DROUGHT ARE KILLING OUR FORESTS. BUT WE CAN LIMIT THE DAMAGE— IF WE CHANGE COURSE NOW. ...

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JEFF FROST (FLAP)SUE CAG; GARTH LENZ On a burnt slope in the Sierra Nevada, their only native home, giant sequoias—some more tha ...

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