After studying previously known cave paintings depicting animals across Spain, France, Turkey, and Germany, two researchers realized the illustrations weren’t just drawings of nearby wildlife. The art, which includes drawings of bulls, rams, leopards, scorpions, and fish, actually represents constellations of stars in the night sky, they said.

Source: Ancient cave drawings depict star constellations – Business Insider

Source: Doctors may soon be prescribing vegetables instead of drugs to prevent disease – Agriculture Monthly

Real investment in this versatile crop can elevate Americans’ economy and quality of life for generations to come.

Source: We Should Be Pouring Time And Money Into Hemp, Period.

“There are just so many narratives and it’s not a single story, hence the decision to make it on this scale.”

Kwame Akoto-Bamfo, a Ghanaian sculptor, has created the Ancestor Project – portraits of Africans who were imprisoned, kidnapped or coerced into slaver

The latest IPCC report  does not mince words about the state of our planet: we must act now to achieve global change at a scale that has “no documented historical precedent” in order to avoid the climate catastrophe that would result from a 2 degree C rise in average global temperature. Climate change already disproportionately affects the world’s most vulnerable people

Source: The Best Technology for Fighting Climate Change Isn’t a Technology: It’s Forests | Common Dreams Views

Some Native Americans found squash seeds in a pot about 800 years old and revived the plant for the first time in centuries.

Source: Native Americans revive squash from seeds found in an 800-year-old pot | Ancient Origins

A draconian new state law turns the common school fight into a felony. Instead of detention, children will now face up to 4 years in prison.

Source: School-to-Prison Pipeline Complete — New Law Makes Schoolyard Fights a Felony