6 d. ago Stone Age 'Atlantis' found 8,500 years after being lost at sea

Archaeologists have discovered an underwater city in Denmark's Bay of Aarhus, which is being hailed as the Stone Age Atlantis

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6 d. ago Stone Age 'Atlantis' lost to the sea 8,500 years ago offers new glimpse into prehistoric life

Archaeologists have discovered a lost city below the sea, hailed as the Stone Age Atlantis. They found several artifacts that point to a human presence with structured activities.

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6 d. ago Stone Age settlement swallowed by rising sea levels discovered after 8,500 years

Animal bones and stone tools have been uncovered by divers so far

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6 d. ago Researchers uncover Stone Age settlement submerged by rising sea levels in Denmark

Archaeologists are searching for ancient coastal settlements submerged by rising sea levels over 8,500 years ago in the Bay of Aarhus, Denmark

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9 d. ago Queens Of The Stone Age headline festival rocked by controversy

Irish band The Mary Wallopers had their sound cut over an onstage pro-Palestinian protest.

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1 week ago 'My home will be lost to the sea if something isn't done soon'

Jean Flick, 88, has lived in her property for 25 years and said she would be 'devastated' if it was demolished

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1 week ago At 19 I had to flee my country, afraid for my life – without even saying goodbye to my family

Mohanad was a medical student in Sudan, but he had to leave in secret, hiding in a vegetable truck, until he reached Libya, where he was kidnapped repeatedly. That was only the start of his perilous journeyFor three days, Mohanad had been lost at sea in an overcrowded wooden boat. Travelling across the Mediterranean from Libya to Europe, he and the other passengers had run out of food and water, were running out of fuel, and had mixed their remaining sugar with sea water to see if they could drink it. “It was madness,” he says.Weak and exhausted, passengers began drifting in and out of consciousness. Mohanad kept waking up an Ethiopian man – who was nearer the edge of the boat – worried he might fall in. At night, there were large waves, and Mohanad slept for a while himself, but was woken by a loud splash. People began screaming the Ethiopian man’s name. He had slipped over the side into the water. They turned the boat around to look for him, but he had drowned. Continue reading...

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1 week ago 'I'm 88 and I fear my home of 25 years will be lost to the sea'

Jean Flick said she would be heartbroken if it happened

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1 week ago Woman, 88, fears her clifftop home will be lost to the sea if nothing is done

Jean Flick bought the seaside property in Thorpeness, Suffolk, with her second husband for a fresh start.

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2 w. ago Stone Age humans were picky about which rocks they used for making tools, study finds

New research finds early human ancestors during the Stone Age were more picky about the rocks they used for making tools than previously thought

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2 w. ago Why our broken food system remains a climate disaster: ‘broiling the planet to stuff our faces’

Author Michael Grunwald reckons with the challenge of food-based climate emissions in his new book We Are Eating the EarthRidding ourselves of fossil fuels has been a tortuously ponderous process and, in the current political era, one that can seem to be in full retreat. But we do have the tools to run our cities, vehicles and industries on clean energy and even through the murk of vested interest, the contours of a post-fossil world are becoming clearer.Our system of producing food, though, is in a relative stone age when it comes to the climate crisis. We continue to raze vast tracts of carbon-rich forests for crop and grazing land thereby creating, by some estimates, as much as a third of all global planet-heating emissions. Continue reading...

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2 w. ago Family of teenage US Navy sailor pay tribute after he was declared lost at sea

Jose Antonio Rivera Lynch IV is believed to have gone overboard on the USS George Washington off the coast of Australia

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3 w. ago Woman and two men killed in sea mine explosions at beaches in Ukraine 'after bombs washed into shore'

A woman and two men lost their lives when the blasts ripped through the Black Sea resort area of Zatoka at around 11.30am today.

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4 w. ago Hyperrealistic reconstructions reveal the faces of the Stone Age sisters who may have been victims of human sacrifice 6,000 years ago

Scientists have revealed the faces of two Stone Age sisters who may have been the victims of human sacrifice around 6,000 years ago.

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