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They live on flood-plains contaminated by potentially harmful levels of toxic waste, research reveals.

This three-day international conference and workshop takes place on the 6th – 8th September 2023. Delegates can register for Conference Day 1, or all three Conference and Workshop days.

It’s fitting that young Emma Macklin should be setting herself a 30-mile sponsored walk target to raise money for Mary Stevens Hospice – it is its 30th anniversary this year. But ten-year-old Emma decided she wanted to go a step further – or rather thousands and thousands of steps further. Because the Wollaston youngster has decided to do 30 miles every month – an all seasons challenge along the paths, bridleways and canalsides of the area. The hospice is special to Emma because her ‘nanna’ Brenda Cadwallader was a volunteer there for 15 years, and went there for her end o...

An abandoned medieval canal in the Aral Sea basin in Central Asia. Genghis Khan and his marauding Mongol horsemen were probably not responsible for the demise of Central Asia’s medieval river civilisations around 700 years ago, fresh research suggests. Instead, climate change was to blame, according to research led by the University of Lincoln in England. The Aral Sea basin in Central Asia and the major rivers flowing through the region were once home to advanced river civilizations which used floodwater to irrigate farmland. The region’s decline is often attributed to the devastating Mon...

A new study challenges the long-held view that the destruction of Central Asia’s medieval river civilizations was a direct result of the Mongol invasion in the early 13th century AD. The Aral Sea basin in Central Asia and the major rivers flowing through the region were once home to advanced river civilizations which used floodwater irrigation to farm. The region’s decline is often attributed to the devastating Mongol invasion of the early 13th century, but new research of long-term river dynamics and ancient irrigation networks shows the changing climate and dryer conditions may have bee...