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How did a Sahel nation facing advancing desert regrow roughly 5 million hectares of trees on farmland by changing one rule about who owns the seedlings sprouting in a farmer's field?

Every normally sighted human eye has a blind spot about as wide as three small coins held side by side at arm's length, created where the optic nerve exits the retina and leaves no photoreceptors, and the brain quietly paints over the gap using whatever pattern surrounds it

Olympus Mons on Mars rises 22 kilometres above the surrounding plains

We tend to think of the Sahara as forever draining life from Africa, but every year roughly 27.7 million tonnes of its dust cross the Atlantic on trade winds and settle on the Amazon, delivering the phosphorus the rainforest's soil cannot otherwise replace
