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Tove K | Wood From Eden | 30th September 2024 Valero is "one of the most important anthropologists of the 20C". Of indigenous and European ancestry, she was kidnapped at the age of 11 in 1937. For the next 19 years she survived among sometimes violent uncontacted tribal groups in the Amazonas. She emerged in 1956 with her four sons and told her story to an Italian anthropologist. A decade later, she returned to live in the forest (6,000 words)
Molly Lempriere & Simon Evans | CarbonBrief | 27th September 2024 The UK opened the world's first coal power station in 1882, and in 2024 has become the first major economy to cease burning coal to generate electricity. During this time, the country's coal plants emitted more CO₂ than most countries have ever produced from all sources. The next challenge? Getting rid of gas, which makes up 22 per cent of the UK's current power generation (6,000 words)
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