americas
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Brazil Plans to Deforest the Amazon to Repave 870 Kilometres of Abandoned Highway
The most controversial aspects of most highways are usually the traffic, number of lanes they have or the speed limit, but very few roadways are like BR-319. BR-319 is (or was) a federal highway in Brazil. The 869 km road connects the city of Manaus with the city of Porto Velho. Manaus is the capital…
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The Oldest Mummies in the World Are Rotting and Sprouting Mould
Climate change is bringing rain and humidity to usually dry and arid Northern Chile, causing ancient mummies to decompose as they are exposed to increased moisture and the elements. The phenomenon puts some of the world’s oldest known mummies at risk of deteriorating after thousands of years of artificial and natural preservation.
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Human Spines Threaded Onto Posts Found at 500-Year-Old Burial Site in Peru
Archaeologists working along the southern coast of Peru have unearthed nearly 200 reed posts adorned with human vertebrae. Sound macabre, but these spines on spikes may have been a response to the Colonial-period looting of graves.
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U.S. Pentagon and State Lack ‘Technical Capacity’ to Detect ‘Stingray’ Phone Surveillance, Senator Says
A slew of federal agency heads and the nation’s top intelligence official are being pressed to respond to what one influential senator is calling an “abysmal failure” by the U.S. government to defend its own employees from unauthorised mobile phone surveillance.