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Deforestation Bolivia: This false colour image was taken by the European satellite Sentinel-2 and shows an area of Bolivia that was once forested but has now been cleared for ranching and development. The city of Santa Cruz can be seen in grey centre left now surrounded by a patchwork
of fields and urban expansion.
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Floods imaged sentinel-1: Hurricane Idai that struck southeast Africa in March 2019 resulted in widespread flooding in Mozambique. This radar image from the European Sentinel-1 satellite shows in red the extent of flooding around the Buzi and Pungwe rivers.
THE likely age of Dorset s Cerne Abbas Giant has been revealed for the first time - and it has come as a surprise to historians. Archaeologists at the National Trust have been analysing sediment taken from the carving - considered to be Britain’s largest and perhaps best-known chalk hill figure. Generations have speculated about the age and meaning of the club-brandishing giant hewn into a Dorset hillside with some theories including it being a depiction of the legendary demi-god Hercules, an ancient fertility symbol, or even the soldier and statesman Oliver Cromwell. Another theory is that the figure was carved around the body of a giant who was slain by local people after he terrorised the countryside.
THE likely age of Dorset s Cerne Giant has been revealed for the first time - and it has come as a surprise to historians. Archaeologists at the National Trust have been analysing sediment taken from the carving - considered to be Britain’s largest and perhaps best-known chalk hill figure. Generations have speculated about the age and meaning of the club-brandishing giant hewn into a Dorset hillside with some theories including it being a depiction of the legendary demi-god Hercules, an ancient fertility symbol, or even the soldier and statesman Oliver Cromwell. Another theory is that the figure was carved around the body of a giant who was slain by local people after he terrorised the countryside.
THE likely age of Dorset s Cerne Abbas Giant has been revealed for the first time - and it has come as a surprise to historians. Archaeologists at the National Trust have been analysing sediment taken from the carving - considered to be Britain’s largest and perhaps best-known chalk hill figure. Generations have speculated about the age and meaning of the club-brandishing giant hewn into a Dorset hillside with some theories including it being a depiction of the legendary demi-god Hercules, an ancient fertility symbol, or even the soldier and statesman Oliver Cromwell. Another theory is that the figure was carved around the body of a giant who was slain by local people after he terrorised the countryside.