Canada’s Environment Minister announced that the search for the HMS Terror and the HMS Erebus will continue this summer. The two ships were lost in the Canadian Arctic on Sir John Franklin’s doomed expedition to discover the Northwest Passage in 1845. “Franklin was a considerable figure in Arctic exploration. We’ve been looking for Franklin for […]

Did ancient Australian Aborigines change the climate by burning grasslands and vegetation in northern Australia during the dry season? A new simulation by climate scientist Michael Notaro of the University of Wisconsin, Madison, suggests that the burning delayed the monsoon season. The Sackler Gallery, part of the Smithsonian Institution in Washington, D.C., has postponed its […]