Greece’s fire-ravaged island now racing to build flood defences
Limni, GreeceReuters In a scorched landscape on the Greek island of Evia, crews of workers chop burnt pine trees, all that’s left from devastating summer wildfires, to set up wooden flood barriers. Walking on a thick carpet of ash and with the smell of smoke still lingering, they are racing against time to bolster defences […]
‘Jesus Christ Superstar’: The controversial musical phenomenon turns 50
KATHRYN POST, of Religion News Service, charts the history of a storied musical…
Memorial for Babi Yar victims inaugurated in Ukraine
Kyiv, Ukraine AP The presidents of Ukraine, Israel and Germany on Wednesday inaugurated a memorial centre for the victims of the Babi Yar massacre in Ukraine eight decades after one of the most infamous Nazi mass slaughters of the Holocaust. Nearly 34,000 Jews were killed within 48 hours in Babi Yar, a ravine in the […]
Essay: BepiColombo’s first close-up pictures of Mercury’s surface hint at answers to the planet’s secrets
DAVID ROTHERY, professor of planetary geosciences at The Open University, looks – in an article first published on The Conversation – at the BepiColombo mission to Mercury and what its closest images yet have revealed…