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Climate Change Is Erasing Humanity’s Oldest Art
WIRED   24 May 2021   Indonesia   Sulawesi island  
Photograph: Putu Artana/Alamy
<p>The limestone caves and rock shelters of Indonesia's southern Sulawesi island hold the oldest traces of human art and storytelling, dating back more than 40,000 years. Paintings adorn the walls of at least 300 sites in the karst hills of Maros-Pangkep, ...
Elon Musk's Boring Company Just Hit the Boring Part
WIRED   11 August 2017   USA  
The Boring Company
<p>It sounds like the plot of a James Bond movie: A charismatic billionaire wants to build a network of high tech tunnels beneath America's cities and slay an enemy in the process. But this isn't a summer blockbuster. It's Elon Musk's latest Big Idea. In addition ...
Filed under: Construction News
Nicaragua’s Momotombo Volcano Has Erupted For the First Time in 100 Years
WIRED   02 December 2015   Nicaragua   Momotombo volcano  
The Momotombo volcano spews a large plume of gas and ash as seen from the rural community of Papalonal, in Leon, Nicaragua, on December 2, 2015. ESTEBAN FELIX/AP
<p>LAST NIGHT NICARAGUA&rsquo;S Momotombo started its first eruption since 1905. The vigorous Strombolian eruption (see above and below) produced an impressive lava fountain along with a dark ash plume over the area near Lake Managua.</p> <p>Local reports ...
Filed under: Natural Hazards